[giantsloth]

This is just false. Please learn how to do a modicum of research before putting forth these reactionary idiotic rumors.

Sam Durant wanted the sculpture to be DISMANTLED after it was heavily protested by local Dakota's for it's insensitivity.

Durant literally agreed to having it dismantled and it was buried by Dakota Elders.

"I made Scaffold as a learning space for people like me, white people who have not suffered the effects of a white supremacist society and who may not consciously know that it exists" said Durant, "white artists need to address issues of white supremacy."