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Jalen Rose recently dropped an absolute take quake about Mount Rushmore.
The former NBA star and current ESPN analyst tweeted a video demanding people stop using Mount Rushmore as a measuring stick for greatness.
Why? He feels it’s offensive like the Washington Redskins name was prior to the change to WTF and the Commanders.
“Let’s stop using the term Mount Rushmore when we talking about our favorite rappers, when we talking about our favorite movies, we talking about our favorite players. I know you’re going to see this video and I know you’re going to take action,” Rose told his followers.
This is the definition of a woke take, and it doesn’t really make sense at all. For the record, Mount Rushmore is named after lawyer and miner Charles E. Rushmore, and the faces of four great American Presidents now sit on it.
You’ll have to excuse me if I’m not offended by the faces of George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, Thomas Jefferson and Theodore Roosevelt being carved in stone in the Black Hills.
Mount Rushmore represents the best of America. It represents American greatness. That’s why tourists flock there.
It’s a monument that reminds people just how great this country can be at our best. Apparently, that’s offensive to Jalen Rose.
There is a dark history in America when it comes to the treatment of Native Americans, and any rational person can admit it.
However, that doesn’t mean everything on land once owned by Native Americans must be treated as untouchable and be canceled.
Mount Rushmore is something to be celebrated. It should make you proud to be an American, and there’s absolutely nothing wrong with using the name when ranking things.
You have to do some serious mental gymnastics to think otherwise.
While Rose is trying to appease the woke masses, the rest of us are always just excited to celebrate America!
Jalen Rose does not qualify for “The Mount Rushmore” of Influential Americans.
He’s gunning for the Mount Rushmore of progressive idiots at ESPN. Watch out Sarah Spain!
Jalen Rose is such a dumb sob. The guy’s not bright at all. It’s obvious his college courses were basket weaving and drawing. I think we are lucky that he has a platform like espn to be able to share his thoughts though, because at least he gives us something to laugh at on a regular basis. Dummy’s do have a role to play in life and that’s to provide humor for us. Nothing works better at picking you up if you’re having a crappy day than listening to Jalen Rose trying to pass off ignorant bigoted shit as witty thoughts and insights. If there weren’t idiots in this world how would we be able to judge how much smarter we are lol.
It’s because Mt. Rushmore has four White guys on it. Rose is a very stupid man and very racist. Probably thinks Obama should be carved into the rock.
Jalen Rose is a moderate IQ (at best) middle-age man trying way too hard to come off as young and intellectual. It’s all a front.
PS – all land is stolen. Humans were hunters/gatherers for thousands of years, living nomadically until the advent of agriculture around 10,000BC. Since then civilizations, city/states, empires, dynasties, countries, kingdoms, etc. have come and gone. It’s not until this modern era which we live that these land grabs and wars have mostly subsided. Prime example: Byzantine Empire was a thing for like 700 years with the capital city of Constantinople. This land wasn’t stolen, the Ottoman Turks attacked them at a weak point in their empire and took their shit. Today, we call it Istanbul. To the victor go the spoils.
And as far as Native Americans, the fate they encountered was bound to happen at some point, regardless. Europe, Asia, and Africa (the old world) had been trading disease for millennia. If it weren’t Europeans to make it to the Americas it would eventually have been Asians and the same shit would have happened, just on the other coast. There’s nothing the natives could have done to prepare for things like small pox and all the other diseases they had no immune system protection from. That is, even if Europeans didn’t go to war with tribes and “take their land”, many natives would have still perished from old-world disease regardless.
I will never understand why these clowns get the attention they do…he’s a waste of oxygen.
Minority uneducated reactionary.
Mount Rushmore of rappers??!! You gotta be kidding me.
Another goofy thin skinned darkie who whines and complains about everything never satisfied just pathetic and oh yeah has never won a thing in college or pros having been part of the way way overhyped so called Fab 5 and not one of them ever won a thing college or pros just stfu