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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And that is an insult to pond scum, pond scum actually serves a purpose, it creates oxygen for all of us to breath.
AOC only sucks up our oxygen and steals our tax money!
Made me laugh so hard I almost fell out of this damn chair!
Thanks for ending what has been a pretty rough day on an UP NOTE!
Still laughing by the way.
:)
5th MEB
You’re welcome and thank you for your service.
And in doing so happily serves Satan...
AOC is an ignorant slut.
Anti-White Bigots far outnumber White Supremacists.
Kamehameha white? OK Sandy.
AOC is good at spouting the company line.
she does not know she is just a foot soldier/useful idiot- and will be disposed of at later date.
I think it's just flab. Her arms are flabby.
Why are the spanish still allowed to appropriate the culture of the indigenous populations of the Caribbean and central and south america. Cortez was a fancy bad man and a killer according to Neil Young.
This is more disgusting than usual, even for AOC. How many of her followers will bother to check history or just nod mindlessly in agreement with her? If she had leprosy, would she even accept care from a White male Christian?
Fair Market Value!
Let me give a different take. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is unwittingly insightful and undoubtedly correct. Shes says of Saint Damien de Veuster of Molokai:
“This is what patriarchy and white supremacist culture looks like! It’s not radical or crazy to understand the influence white supremacist culture has historically had in our overall culture & how it impacts the present day.”
This saint dedicated his life to bring God and human dignity to the desperate, impoverished outcasts of a faraway place and a very foreign language, so she obviously does not defame him. Instead, she attacks the critics of “patriarchy white supremacist culture,” which, history tells us, consists in men who give their lives to save both men and women of other races and cultures. It has brought both faith and reason to enrich the cultures of many parts of the world, to pacify cultures of violence, to quell sexual exploitation (think of Saint Charles Lwanga), to show people the Way, the Truth, and the Life of God Himself. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortex here must celebrate “patriarchy and white supremacist culture,” the benign and lifesaving system of ideas that gives her the opportunities that she enjoys today.
A very thoughtful post.
Somebody tell this moronic strumpet that since he’s from Belgium there’s absolutely no possible classification as to what to feel about him. Ne can’t even be described and non threateningly fuzzy like the Swiss or Canadians. That’s just the way the world is.
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