Mount Rushmore National Memorial (National Park Service)KEYSTONE, S.D. - Amid a campaign to take down statues across the country that has moved quickly from targeting monuments of Confederate generals to those of former presidents, South Dakota’s governor is promising that the famed Mount Rushmore will not be next.“Not on my watch,” tweeted South Dakota GOP Gov.
Kristi Noem after conservative commentator Ben Shapiro quipped that the chiseled faces of Presidents George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Theodore Roosevelt and Abraham Lincoln could be the next target of the "woke historical revisionist priesthood."There's no indication yet of any serious push against the towering monument and tourist attraction in the Black Hills of South Dakota..