Lockdown Update Day 109

[elisi]

Dear Americans, Happy #AllCountriesMatter Day! :D

Here is a photo of The Six Grandfathers (Tȟuŋkášila Šákpe) - that is, Mt Rushmore before white ppl started carving into it.



More information on the name here.

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And a podcast (v. recent):

Why Ta-Nehisi Coates is hopeful by the Ezra Klein Show (4 June 2020)

(I came across it shortly after I had taken 'We Were Eight Years in Power' down off the shelf... Which felt very serendipitous.)

Also, an article from a year ago:

Ta-Nehisi Coates Revisits the Case for Reparations

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Oh and here is a video of Obama doing a speech:

President Obama Delivers Remarks on the 50th Anniversary of the Selma Marches (March 07, 2015)

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And finally, today's art. Homage to Black Women Poets, 1984, by Elizabeth Catlett (x):

Comments

[trepkos]

Reparations needed for white exploitation of Africa, Asia, Australasia and the Americas are still mounting up

[elisi]

Yup. Every country that used to be pink...

[yourlibrarian]

Oh I like that sculpture.

[elisi]

Beautiful, isn't it? I love choosing art for my posts, because there's usually something that just 'pops'. :)

[lynnenne]

Wow, that is a fantastic photo of Rushmore - I never knew it was called the Six Grandfathers. You can really see the faces in it! I wish it had been left untouched. Sigh.

[elisi]

I didn't know that either (or what it looked like) - Twitter can be very educational at times.

And yeah, if only they'd left it alone. :(

[schrodingers_time_lady]

Thank you for sharing Tȟuŋkášila Šákpe! I've been wondering for some time what it looked like before it was, well, destroyed. ): But never got around to googling.

[elisi]

You're welcome. Twitter brings me many things... And it was a beautiful mountain. I hope they can... fix it somehow.

[lokifan]

Thanks for the links! And omg I love that sculpture.

[elisi]

You're very welcome. <3