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Target funds group that wants to close Mt. Rushmore over ‘white supremacy’


Embattled retail giant Target has funded a nonprofit that calls for shutting down Mount Rushmore because the landmark is a “symbol of white supremacy,” demilitarizing the “violent” US military and imposing sanctions on Israel, according to a report

The company — which has lost $12 billion in market cap in the past two weeks over its PRIDE-themed clothing for adults and children — has donated money to NDN Collective, according to 2021 tax documents obtained by Fox News.

It’s unclear how much money the “cheap chic” retailer has shelled out to the organization, which bills itself as an Indigenous-led organization “dedicated to building the collective power of Indigenous Peoples,” according to the group’s Twitter page.

However, a statement on NDN Collective’s website said the group was awarded $50 million in 2021 to support Indigenous communities.

The group has called the “very existence” of Mount Rushmore “a symbol of white supremacy” since the national memorial in the Black Hills of South Dakota — with busts of George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Theodore Roosevelt and Abraham Lincoln carved into mountainside — is set on “stolen Lakota land.”


Tax documents from 2021 revealed that Target funded NDN Collective, an Indigenous-led organization that has pushed to demilitarize the “violent” US military, wants to impose sanctions on Israel and received a $50 million award that same year.
NDN Collective

“NDN Collective for the closure of the national monument indefinitely,” said a press release, which was posted in July 2020 before then-President Donald Trump visited Mt. Rushmore in celebration of Independence Day.

The organization also condemns militarization “as a pathway for exploitation and destruction of Indigenous communities within the so-called United States,” according to its website,

NDN Collective has also launched a campaign called “LANDBACK” which demands America give up its public land.

LANDBACK has also pushed anti-Israel campaigns using the terror slogan, “From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free.”

“We must demand that our government stop providing military aid and funding to so-called Israel. We must continue to speak our support aloud in public and support the civil society call for boycott, divestment and sanctions,” according to another press release.

The chant has long been uses by “anti-Israel terrorist organizations such as Hamas and the PFLP, which seek Israel’s destruction through violent means,” according to the Anti-Defamation League.

Representatives for NDN Collective and Target didn’t immediately respond to The Post’s request for comment.


NDN Collective called the "very existence" of Mt. Rushmore "a symbol of white supremacy" since it's set on "stolen Lakota land" in South Dakota.
NDN Collective called the “very existence” of Mt. Rushmore “a symbol of white supremacy” since it’s set on “stolen Lakota land” in South Dakota.
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Target “accelerated” its Diversity Equity and Inclusion funding in response to Black Lives Matter activism under the leadership of its diversity chief – Kiera Fernandez, according to Fox News.

Fernandez has demanded that “white women” get to work to combat the proclaimed systemic racism in America.

In an interview with Essence Magazine, Fernandez drew attention by saying that “one of the hardest things in the world to be every day is black.”


Target's chief diversity and inclusion officer, Kiera Fernandez, spearheads the retailer's DEI efforts.
Target’s chief diversity and inclusion officer, Kiera Fernandez, spearheads the retailer’s DEI efforts.
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She later demanded that “white women” call out “transgressions” in a 2021 panel from Twin Cities Business Talks: Diversity, Equity and Inclusion.

“I think the number one thing that I would encourage white women to do is take the [DEI] learnings… and use your voice… so the woman of color in the room doesn’t always have to,” she said.

Fernandez then called out a white woman on the panel, and said: “Alison, there are places that you and I will go where your voice will be heard differently than mine.”


The revelations come as Target faces backlash over its Pride merchandise, which includes clothing items for infants and "tuck-friendly" swimsuits for women.
The revelations come as Target faces backlash over its Pride merchandise, which includes clothing items for infants and “tuck-friendly” swimsuits for women.
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The revelation that Target funds NDN Collective comes as Target’s stock sinks to its lowest levels since 2020 over boycotts over its PRIDE-themed clothing for adults and children.

Shares of the Minneapolis-based chain sank 2.45% at $129.96 on Monday, giving the company a market capitalization of $60 billion — a steep drop from the $72.14 billion value Target enjoyed just one month ago.

The ongoing losses were triggered by the release of Pride-themed children’s items, such as onesies for infants that say “Bien Proud!” and “Just be you and feel the love,” as well as children’s books, including one titled “‘Twas the Night Before Pride.”

Conservative customers were also outraged over a “tuck-friendly” women’s swimsuit that allows trans women who have not had gender-affirming operations to conceal their genitalia.




This story originally appeared on NYPost

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