Posted on 11/21/2017 5:09:41 PM PST by marshmallow
About 40 students march at Stanford seeking the renaming of a street and three campus buildings named after St. Junipero Serra
Native students and their allies marched in Wednesday’s Walk to Rename in support of renaming buildings and streets honoring Junipero Serra on campus.
The students convened in the courtyard outside of Serra house in Stern Hall and walked down Galvez Mall to President Marc Tessier-Lavigne’s office in the Main Quad, where they presented letters of discontent to administrators.
“To the window… to the wall… no more Serra Mall!” marchers chanted.
In an open letter co-signed by a coalition of “concerned Native students,” members of the Native community requested that the administration recognize that “the constant veneration of those in the past who mistreated [their] ancestors must cease” through Stanford’s renaming of buildings and streets commemorating Serra.
“The naming of buildings and streets after those who tried to eradicate our culture serves only to venerate the oppressors,” the protesters’ letter reads.
According to the students, the march grew out of discontent with inaction and lack of communication from the committee the University assembled early in 2016 to consider the Serra renaming issue. The Daily reported earlier this fall that the committee’s mandate has shifted since its creation, in what the group’s chair described as an effort to speed along an unexpectedly difficult process.
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How many students at Stanford? 20,000? By all means, let 40 walking whiners dictate to the rest.
They should be grateful that Serra and his coworkers arrived and put an end to intertribal warfare.
When he died, the grief among the native population was genuine and heartfelt.
Yeah, your culture was so advanced and sophisticated you couldn’t even invent THE WHEEL!
Wasn’t Junipero Serra a Hispanic? Doesn’t that count for something?
Aw crap! Bad parenting and not enough homework. Assignments
The issue is never the issue.
The issue is simply a means to advance the agenda.
In this case, the agenda is to destroy history so that a new history can be put in place. A history that requires power be given to the Left.
They are so stupid.
True story. When Father Serra prepared for his last trip to visit and check on all the missions, in which he would be riding by donkey from San Diego to San Francisco, he put his hands on his back and stretched it and said, "I wish I could fly."
Over two hundred years later they dedicated a stamp in his honor.
So Fr Junipero Serra “mistreated their ancestors”? Would that be the ancestors that made a habit of ripping people’s hearts out atop a pyramid in Tenochtitlan?
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