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"...At this moment of global outcry against racism, Californians are saying en masse that, for too long, the state’s history has been whitewashed, the ugly parts ignored.
"...At this moment of global outcry against racism, Californians are saying en masse that, for too long, the state’s history has been whitewashed, the ugly parts ignored.
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Marcus Hunter, chair of African American Studies at UCLA, said he thinks the statues are falling at such great numbers and with less pushback than in years past because white people and others who are not Black are joining the protests and helping pull them down.
Marcus Hunter, chair of African American Studies at UCLA, said he thinks the statues are falling at such great numbers and with less pushback than in years past because white people and others who are not Black are joining the protests and helping pull them down.
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He also believes that people being forced to stay home during the pandemic could not ignore Floyd’s killing and the movement it sparked.
“I’ve been calling this the great pause,” Hunter said. “It wasn’t just a slowdown.
He also believes that people being forced to stay home during the pandemic could not ignore Floyd’s killing and the movement it sparked.
“I’ve been calling this the great pause,” Hunter said. “It wasn’t just a slowdown.
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It was 90 days of shelter in place. Either people are going to change America, or it’s going to remain the same.”
In the Antelope Valley, a high school dropped its Rebels mascot, once depicted as a soldier with a Confederate flag.
It was 90 days of shelter in place. Either people are going to change America, or it’s going to remain the same.”
In the Antelope Valley, a high school dropped its Rebels mascot, once depicted as a soldier with a Confederate flag.
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In Kings Canyon National Park, the name of the 255-foot Robert E. Lee Tree, a giant sequoia that is one of the world’s tallest trees, was removed.
Protesters in San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park felled statues of Father Junipero Serra and two slave owners:
In Kings Canyon National Park, the name of the 255-foot Robert E. Lee Tree, a giant sequoia that is one of the world’s tallest trees, was removed.
Protesters in San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park felled statues of Father Junipero Serra and two slave owners:
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Francis Scott Key, the writer of “The Star-Spangled Banner,” and President Grant. The name of the Squaw Valley Ski Resort near Lake Tahoe is being reconsidered. So is Negro Bar State Recreation Area in Sacramento County.
Francis Scott Key, the writer of “The Star-Spangled Banner,” and President Grant. The name of the Squaw Valley Ski Resort near Lake Tahoe is being reconsidered. So is Negro Bar State Recreation Area in Sacramento County.
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In downtown Los Angeles’ Father Serra Park, Indigenous activists tied ropes around a statue of the Franciscan friar — his bronze form holding a cross and bearing a model of a Spanish mission — and yanked it off its pedestal.
In downtown Los Angeles’ Father Serra Park, Indigenous activists tied ropes around a statue of the Franciscan friar — his bronze form holding a cross and bearing a model of a Spanish mission — and yanked it off its pedestal.
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In Ventura, where protesters unfurled a banner reading “Father Genocide,” local officials agreed to remove a Serra statue outside City Hall.
In Ventura, where protesters unfurled a banner reading “Father Genocide,” local officials agreed to remove a Serra statue outside City Hall.
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...Gary Orfield, director of the Civil Rights Project at UCLA, said the country is “in the midst of the largest social movement about rights and racial justice in half a century” and that many of the people Americans have long held up as heroes are flawed.
...Gary Orfield, director of the Civil Rights Project at UCLA, said the country is “in the midst of the largest social movement about rights and racial justice in half a century” and that many of the people Americans have long held up as heroes are flawed.
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“The truth is, we do have a racist history,” Orfield said. “We stole all our land from the Indians, we took half of Mexico over, and we kept African Americans in an extreme form of slavery for generations, followed by extreme segregation using the power of law.”
“The truth is, we do have a racist history,” Orfield said. “We stole all our land from the Indians, we took half of Mexico over, and we kept African Americans in an extreme form of slavery for generations, followed by extreme segregation using the power of law.”
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...No state beyond the South has had as many monuments and place names honoring the Confederacy and its soldiers as California, Waite said.
...No state beyond the South has had as many monuments and place names honoring the Confederacy and its soldiers as California, Waite said.
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Though it was a Union state far from the major battlefields of the Civil War, white Southerners flocked to California and “basically ran the show in Sacramento,” passing numerous pro-slavery resolutions, Waite said.
Though it was a Union state far from the major battlefields of the Civil War, white Southerners flocked to California and “basically ran the show in Sacramento,” passing numerous pro-slavery resolutions, Waite said.
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Public monuments popped up decades after the war, as part of a movement known as the Lost Cause, a fictitious rewriting of Civil War history that glosses over slavery as its root cause.
Public monuments popped up decades after the war, as part of a movement known as the Lost Cause, a fictitious rewriting of Civil War history that glosses over slavery as its root cause.
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The current protest movement is also confronting California’s historic cruelty toward Native Americans,
The current protest movement is also confronting California’s historic cruelty toward Native Americans,
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with statues of Serra, the architect of the state’s mission system, falling and the removal of a statue of John Sutter, a Gold Rush colonizer who enslaved Indigenous people, from a Sacramento hospital named after him.
with statues of Serra, the architect of the state’s mission system, falling and the removal of a statue of John Sutter, a Gold Rush colonizer who enslaved Indigenous people, from a Sacramento hospital named after him.
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“Ppl aren’t taking things so much as a given part of the landscape anymore, & they’re imagining what places would feel like w/out this assertion of power, this asserting of dominance over certain ppl,” said Beth Piatote, a professor of Native American studies at UC Berkeley.
“Ppl aren’t taking things so much as a given part of the landscape anymore, & they’re imagining what places would feel like w/out this assertion of power, this asserting of dominance over certain ppl,” said Beth Piatote, a professor of Native American studies at UC Berkeley.
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“Native people, African American people, Asians, immigrants — people are all coming together and saying, ‘We don’t want that message asserted in our public space.’”
“Native people, African American people, Asians, immigrants — people are all coming together and saying, ‘We don’t want that message asserted in our public space.’”
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...Javier Silva, a member of the Sherwood Valley Band of Pomo Indians, asked the council to listen to tribal members who “never ceded this land.”
“I don’t like the name myself,” he said.
...Javier Silva, a member of the Sherwood Valley Band of Pomo Indians, asked the council to listen to tribal members who “never ceded this land.”
“I don’t like the name myself,” he said.
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“But I just want it to be a reminder that this was a place of oppression, not because of Bragg, not because of that, but because of the Native Americans that were here, the first peoples here.
“But I just want it to be a reminder that this was a place of oppression, not because of Bragg, not because of that, but because of the Native Americans that were here, the first peoples here.
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“We have never been given a voice, and when we have gotten a voice, it’s never gone anywhere.”"
“We have never been given a voice, and when we have gotten a voice, it’s never gone anywhere.”"
