Posted on 06/23/2019 7:17:35 AM PDT by marshmallow
A university in California removed a historical symbol from its campus Friday in an effort to be “more inclusive” after a years-long campaign by Native American community members argued the marker highlighted a period of racism in the state.
The El Camino Real Bell was removed from the University of California Santa Cruz after administrators had several discussions with members of the Amah Mutsun Tribal Band and other community members who felt that the bell marker glorified a period of time when Spanish missionaries dehumanized their ancestors and culture and enslaved those who converted to Christianity.
Vice Chancellor of Business and Administrative Services Sarah Latham said the school moved forward with the removal "in support of efforts to be more inclusive.”
The cast-iron bell, named after the route connecting 21 Franciscan missions, was one of hundreds of displays placed across highways in California in 1906 as a way to honor the state’s “Hispanic past” and “expand tourism,” UCSC said in a press release.
“The bell marker, which memorializes the California Missions and an imagined route of travel that once connected them, is viewed by the Amah Mutsun and many other California indigenous people as a racist symbol that glorifies the domination and dehumanization of their ancestors,” the release continued.
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Considering that native indians practiced slavery, cannibalism, genocide, massacres and child sacrifices - can we remove their monuments too?
For inclusion...of course.
Should just turn EVERYthing over to the Indians, Muslins, and People Of Coleur.
Right?
“Should just turn EVERYthing over to the Indians, Muslins, and People Of Coleur.
Right?”
That, or stand up for ourselves, which I would prefer. Don’t see much of it though. Apparently name calling still works.
Come to think of it, that wouldn't be such a bad thing ...
Will also now have to change the name of Santa Cruz to something more indigenous, inclusive.
Lefty bullies moving the goalposts again.
Santa Scalp?
and they let it be removed.
Those are also the enemy
***There wouldn’t BE a California today if it wasn’t for those Spanish missionaries.***
Probably Russian or British, a backdoor to attack the USA.
Removing the bell is meaningless.
What next, change all the names of the cities from Spanish to (??) ?
Beat me to it. What’s to stop them? Renaming the cities is completely in accord with their logic. I’ll be surprised if it doesn’t happen.
-PJ
To take it a step further, I wouldn’t be surprised if someday there is a demand that the historic missions be razed as symbols of colonial repression. Why stop with the bells?
St. Junipero Serra, pray for us.
Don’t tell them the real meaning of those words!
Or Riverside, whose city symbol is the Rain Cross, a combination of native symbols and Spanish mission bells.
Before the Spanish came the California tribes were running around stark naked throwing sticks at rabbits to try to get substinance. They had no culture like the Pueblo peoples or the Eastern tribes
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