Posted on 03/15/2016 6:33:18 PM PDT by marshmallow
Students at Stanford University, inspired by the Black Lives Matter movement, are attempting to scrub names and symbols that honor people who are historically connected to slavery and colonialism from the college campus. The move echoes a series of colleges across the nation whose students have attempted to do the same.
The latest target in this battle is Saint Junipero Serra, an 18th-century Spanish, Roman Catholic priest and missionary who was canonized last September. His name is on two dorms, an academic building a street and the mall that is the school's official address.
It is "important for the university to recognize that we need to reinvest and reappropriate these spaces in the names of indigenous people," Stanford student Leo John Bird said, according to the San Jose Mercury News.
Serra started nine missions that would go on to lay the foundation for what would become California. In a video posted to the Mercury News, Bird said that in these quarters "there was jailing of indigenous women in quarters away from indigenous men so that Spanish soldiers could come in and rape them and continue to perpetuate abuses against culture."
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Will “Mo-ham-mad” be recognized as the slaver he was???
The very idea of the university is racist.
“Shut that mf down!”
That's their agenda in a nutshell: replacing American history with their politically correct pseudohistory. Early colonists, Founding Fathers, military commanders, "dead white male" writers, and most Presidents prior to Obama are out, Huey Newton and Malcolm X are in. They may allow Cesar Chavez his place on a pedestal, but now even he may be suspect because he was against illegal immigration.
Truth is whatever is useful to further their power. Fact is that the Indians in California were doing reasonably well until after 1846.
Just an expansion of the Black Legend spread by Elizabeths government to justify the actions of pirates like Drake against Spanish shipping. This against the background of the end of the alliance between England and Spain that went back to the early 1500s and the marriage of Henry and Mary. The Spanish colonized upper California about the same time that the Americans colonized the Ohio Valley and history tells us who was better off in 1846, the California Indians or the Indians who had once lived in the Ohio Valley.
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