Posted on 05/30/2015 6:33:33 AM PDT by marshmallow
Saint Louis University has removed a statue on its campus depicting a famous Jesuit missionary priest praying over American Indians after a cohort of students and faculty continued to complain the sculpture symbolized white supremacy, racism and colonialism.
Formerly placed outside the university’s Fusz Hall in the center of the private Catholic university, the statue will go to the university’s art museum, a building just north of the bustling urban campus.
The statue features famous Jesuit Missionary Pierre-Jean De Smet S.J. praying over two American Indians dressed in traditional clothing. Last Monday, just two days after graduation, it was removed from the location it has called home on campus for decades.
A university spokesperson told St. Louis Magazine the statue will be placed within the “historical context of a collection that’s on permanent display in our SLU Museum of Art.” The statue is set for the museum’s “Collection of the Western Jesuit Missions.”
“In more recent years, there have been some faculty and staff who have raised questions about whether the sculpture is culturally sensitive,” SLU spokesman Clayton Berry said.
Berry did not respond to The College Fix’s request for comment.
The De Smet statue has long drawn the ire of progressive students and scholars at the Jesuit university who argue the statue was a symbol of racism and white supremacy, among other oppressions.
In a recent op-ed published in SLU’s University News, senior Ryan McKinley stated the sculpture sent a clear, unwelcoming message to American Indians at Saint Louis University.
“This message to American Indians is simple: You do not belong here if you do not submit to our culture and our religion,” McKinley wrote. McKinley called for the statue’s removal, while suggesting the university replace it with artwork made by American Indians.
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They’re so used to bending over...
Wait until these idiots get out in the real world. Oh wait, they’re professional college students.
We now witness the fulfillment of the dire predictions made by so many pre-Vatican II popes, that the separation of society from Jesus Christ will end in its utter destruction.
Western Civilization in full retreat.
With few exceptions Native Americans consider themselves Christian thanks to the intrepid work of early missionaries.
Stop. Please. This is like the bad joke that someone at a dull party keeps telling over and over, only there's no way to leave the party.
Did anybody consider telling whiners to get lost?
Why stop there kids?
Saint Louis was a (gasp) crusader.
No this message is that the Lord Jesus is your Savior and if you repent for your sins and accept Him in your life you will find peace and happiness in this world, and eternal Salvation in the next one -- as opposed to the angry leftists who wallow in their daily anger, hate and personal turmoil.
So ridiculous
Dear Lord. The idiots can’t seer that the priest is holding up a crucifix, so that they looking up to Jesus, not to the priest?
Unfortunately, my alma mater
Not worth wasting the bandwidth to comment!
Bullshit, priests did not gain personal wealth from natives and peasants.
If that was a general or owner of a railroad company praying there that could make a little sense.
Far too tough of a concept for the average libtard to grasp in that they recognize only lowlife characters such as Marx, Lenin and Che as their savior.
“if you REPENT for your sins and accept Him in your life you will find peace and happiness ...and eternal Salvation ...”
Accent mine. It is what they do not want to be reminded of. It is WHAT they like about the Clintons.
Anything to get them out of doing the REAL work of life.
That would only make it worse.
Progressive Students For Primitivism
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