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[*] posted on 3-11-2021 at 02:50 PM


Quote: Originally posted by David K  
The past should be known and taught, not hidden and forgotten.

Bad things happened... LEARN from it (so it won't be repeated).
If your feelings are hurt because something bad happened hundreds of years ago... well, you better toughen up, pilgrim.

Junípero Serra (and the Spanish Government) founded San Diego's mission (and first colony). THAT is what is being memorialized.

ADD a statue of a Native American founder instead of removing Serra's and erasing him from the books.

Serra actually defended the Natives from the Spanish soldiers. The next mission after San Diego was at Monterey, but Serra soon moved the mission to Carmel so the soldiers of the Monterey presidio couldn't easily have their way with Native girls.

If you want to be mad at someone, be mad at the government of Spain, not at a mission priest.


Nobody is mad.
People re just being respectful of others when they don’t name public institutions after controversial individuals that many think to be bad hombres. The students can learn about Serra, Trump or Hitler without naming their high school after Serra, Trump or Hitler :light:

Get woke, dude. No one is erasing history. They are erasing inappropriate veneration





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[*] posted on 3-11-2021 at 03:00 PM


Quote: Originally posted by BajaTed  
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Is this a concession that "systemic racism" exists?


no "concession " required. of course it exists.
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[*] posted on 3-12-2021 at 10:49 AM


Where does it end?

Should we destroy the hated missions which he constructed?

Should we get rid of the pope because he ordered Serra to go forth?

And the Catholic Church which ultimately holds all the responsibility?

And of course he can't be considered a Saint.

The accusations will never end.
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[*] posted on 3-12-2021 at 06:14 PM


as a 5th grader in the California schools in the early 60s we were taught the the dear ol padres were sainted supermen.
who would never rape, enslave, infect and destroy cultures in jebus name.
heck if you look at 8th-11th century Christian churches in europe , I'd be willing to bet a portion of the laborers if not slaves were indentured...or call it "apprenticed "
little wonder those times spawned labor unions.
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[*] posted on 3-25-2021 at 12:22 PM
Super Saints ?


Was that a Public School ?

While my CA elementary school experience in L.A. was a decade earlier (5th in '54-'55), I don't recall those Friars being treated with excessive admiration.
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[*] posted on 3-25-2021 at 12:36 PM


public schools.
in the san francisco bay area.
it was emphasized enthusiastically.
plaster models of the missions, freeways named, field trips.
anybody familiar with "radio classics " on sirius radio? there is a a radio show called something like "tales of the California ranchos".
in it, the padres are depicted as selfless men of god who rescue the indigenous folks from their stupidity and guide them to a much improved life.
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