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AOC Calls Statue of Priest Who Ministered to Leper Colony an Example of ‘White Supremacist Culture’
NRO ^ | 31 July 2020 | Zachary Evans

Posted on 07/31/2020 4:05:16 PM PDT by Rummyfan

Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D., N.Y.) singled out a statue of Father Damien, a Catholic priest who ministered to a Hawaiian leper colony, as an example of “white supremacist culture.”

Father Damien, born Jozef de Veuster in Belgium, arrived in Hawaii in 1864 when the islands were an independent kingdom. The priest conducted missionary work on the islands and for the last 16 years of his life ministered to a leper colony, until he died after contracting leprosy himself. A statue of Father Damien stands in the U.S. Capitol.

“It’s not Queen Lili’uokalani…the only Queen Regnant of Hawaii, who is immortalized and whose story is told. It is Father Damien,” Ocasio-Cortez wrote in a Facebook story in which she lamented the absence of statues of female figures in the Capitol. “This is what patriarchy and white supremacist culture looks like!” In addition to Father Damien, the Capitol houses a statue of King Kamehameha I, who united the Hawaiian islands under one kingdom by 1810.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: Hawaii; US: New York
KEYWORDS: anotheraocthread; aoc; damien; fatherdamien; leper; leprosy; molokai; ocasiocortez; rentfree; rentfreeonfr
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I think even Father Damien would have been repulsed by AOC.

1 posted on 07/31/2020 4:05:16 PM PDT by Rummyfan
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To: Rummyfan

Father Damien served his fellow man, whereas AOC serves herself.


2 posted on 07/31/2020 4:06:59 PM PDT by Army Air Corps (Four Fried Chickens and a Coke)
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To: Rummyfan

Does anyone think Spain would take Puerto Rico back for free, as long as they take AOC with it?


3 posted on 07/31/2020 4:08:47 PM PDT by EvilCapitalist (Fire Fauci)
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To: Army Air Corps

As the saying goes, “too many heads, not enough shovels”


4 posted on 07/31/2020 4:08:58 PM PDT by enraged
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To: Rummyfan

How Catholics vote for Rats I’ll never understand. (I am Catholic by the way.)


5 posted on 07/31/2020 4:08:59 PM PDT by ConservativeInPA ("War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength." - George Orwell, 1984)
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To: Rummyfan

Let’s have a conversation about what AOC really is.


6 posted on 07/31/2020 4:09:41 PM PDT by equaviator (If it seems like it's too bad to be true, then it probably isn't.)
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To: Rummyfan

Alex...Honey...you’re talking crazy again. Come back to bed.


7 posted on 07/31/2020 4:10:03 PM PDT by Veggie Todd (Voltaire: "Religion began when the first scoundrel met the first fool".)
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To: Rummyfan
I don't know if the man was canonized, but he sure was a saint.

She is pure pond scum.

8 posted on 07/31/2020 4:10:18 PM PDT by colorado tanker
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To: Rummyfan

Jackass


9 posted on 07/31/2020 4:12:02 PM PDT by headstamp 2 (There's a stairway to heaven, but there's also a highway to hell.)
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To: equaviator

A ll
O ut
C ommie


10 posted on 07/31/2020 4:12:13 PM PDT by lightman (I am a binary Trinitarian. Deal with it!)
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To: Rummyfan

Hilarious coming from a descendant of the Conquistadors

This would all be mind boggling to our ancestors

A Spaniard lecturing everyone else about their oppression?

Beyond comical

From the Darlings who brought dogs eating slaves into the culture of Hispaniola


11 posted on 07/31/2020 4:12:48 PM PDT by Regulator
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To: Rummyfan

I’m white and her skin is the same color as mine.


12 posted on 07/31/2020 4:13:03 PM PDT by RealVirginia
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To: Rummyfan

Cortez better know her ancestors


13 posted on 07/31/2020 4:13:36 PM PDT by ronnie raygun
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To: colorado tanker

Canonized.

https://www.hawaiimagazine.com/blogs/hawaii_today/2009/10/10/Damien_Hawaii_Saint_Molokai_Kalaupapa_canonization


14 posted on 07/31/2020 4:13:51 PM PDT by DuncanWaring (The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
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To: lightman

A irhead
O f
C ongress


15 posted on 07/31/2020 4:14:22 PM PDT by DuncanWaring (The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
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To: Rummyfan

SHE is a leper colony along with her scum pals Omar, Tlaib, and Pressley. Their skin crawls with evil and toxins. I doubt there’s more than 100 IQ points between all 4 of them either.


16 posted on 07/31/2020 4:14:27 PM PDT by EinNYC
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To: colorado tanker

Amen to both!


17 posted on 07/31/2020 4:14:27 PM PDT by Freedom'sWorthIt
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To: ConservativeInPA

It’s like all the Jews voting for rats. Why would they? But, over and over, they support lefty causes.


18 posted on 07/31/2020 4:15:21 PM PDT by Jemian (Was that before or after the fire was put out?)
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Father Damien died a horrible death from leprosy. He intentionally sacrificed himself by going to serve in the leper colony when no one else would.

Oh, by the way, the leprosy in Hawaii originally came from China.

Before leprosy:
https://cardinalsblog.adw.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2013/05/Father-Damien.jpg

After leprosy:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Father_Damien_on_his_deathbed,_resting_on_his_side.jpg


19 posted on 07/31/2020 4:15:30 PM PDT by kaehurowing
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To: ConservativeInPA

The Catholics I know are all Trumpers, but I detest those who bow to liberation theology (socialism)


20 posted on 07/31/2020 4:17:00 PM PDT by JonPreston (Covid19 is communist Chinese bioweapon)
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