The University of California, Santa Cruz invited community members to the campus to witness the removal Friday (June 21) of the El Camino Real Bell.
Named after the route taken by Franciscan priests, the bell was one of hundreds displayed across the state.
Many Native Americans say the missions cut their ancestors off from their traditional languages and cultures and enslaved those who converted to Christianity.
The university’s vice chancellor of business and administrative services, Sarah Latham, said the decision to remove the bell came after outreach attempts this past academic year.
The school listened to members of the Amah Mutsun Tribal Band as well as students and community members about what the bell meant to them, she said.
The university ultimately moved forward with the removal “in support of efforts to be more inclusive,” Latham said.
The Amah Mutsun identified two acceptable options for the disposal of the bell: placing it in a museum with proper historical context or melting it down.
The university hasn’t decided on the bell’s fate, but it will “do more outreach” to find the best solution, Latham said.
The bell was placed on the campus in the 1990s and was a copy of the original mission bells.
– From a June 22 story on Inquirer.net
Yet the university is named “Holy Cross”. How many brainwashed dummies going to school there know that? I’m waiting for the woke SJW Twitter gang of lemmings to demand that the school change its name because the name is oppressive, Christocentric, exclusive, a violation of the separation of church and state, colonialist, anti-indigenous, Eurocentric, and turns the whole campus into an unsafe space for non-Christians or other-identifying peoples.
Bless you, Logical Luke. You really are woke!
Other UCs bear the names of Catholic heroes like Diego, Barbara, and Francis. And the CSU campuses present the same problem for liberals, for example, San Jose State, CSU San Marcos, and CSU San Bernardino. Then there are the Catholic names of cities, like L.A., Sacramento, Santa Clara, and San Luis Obisbo (not to mention probably very many Catholic street names). It must really stink to be an atheist in California.
This is just getting started, folks.
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Either the Spanish missionary Padres brought the Gift of the Catholic Faith to the pagans or they didn’t . Which is it? Its a real gift to accept the Christian Faith and reject paganism.
Like Stalinist Russia in a quest to purge any sign or symbol of its pre-communist past.
“The university ultimately moved forward with the removal “in support of efforts to be more inclusive,” Latham said.
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I believe that’s called an oxymoron.
Confederate statues, mission bells….in other words, if you’re “offended” by anything, it must be removed, right? This is ridiculous, taking an icon down will not erase history!
Anti Catholic bigotry is runing rampant through the Golden State beginning with its bigoted Democrat senators Sen. Diane Feinstein and Kamala Harris. Catholics GET WOKE to this.
Ever hear of UC Santa Cruz?
I’m sorry – it doesn’t ring a bell.
It’s not really a ‘Mission Bell’ at all, but an El Camino Real marker bell. Designed to resemble actual bells used at the Missions, these bells were sponsored by various civic groups up and down US 101 and other roadways, starting about 100 years ago, to mark the approximate route of the historic trail. It’s like getting offended by a mileage marker . . .
As a Spaniard I am highly insulted by these attempts to rewrite history by the left. The Spanish conquest of present day Mexico and the US Southwest was possible because most tribes were liberated by the Spanish from the Aztec rulers who had enslaved them and were using them for human sacrifices. The Missions were built to be inclusive to bring the natives into the new society created by the mixing of the two cultures. Spain in face legalized interracial marriage more than 400 years before the US. In most areas of the Americas ruled by the Spanish the decendents of those here originally still survive. Do some research for example prior to 1819 when US took Florida how many natives lived there. In fact Spain allowed runaway slaves asylum…
The US never banned interracial marriage (some states did). The English came as mostly family units, the Spanish as mostly single males. Rather hard for Spain to ban a fait accompli, no? Or to unscramble an egg, so to speak. :)
As for mixing it up, Pocahontas’s descendants (all white) have always been quite proud of their ancestry – these last 402 Years.
Excellent points. The case you’re making is a very interesting one since it seems primarily ethnic rather than religious. Perhaps college students would be more open to this sort of argument today, especially Hispanic students, given the importance of ethnic heritage among many students.
UC Santa Cruz is a wacko university. It used to be that students were not given letter grades…instead a written evaluation was provided. Good luck getting into grad school with no grades! And Angela Davis, the radical Marxist, was a professor on the faculty. The university is in a beautiful setting, but lots of nonsense in place of education.
i am highly offended that the
UC Santa Cruz mascot is the
Banana Slug – ugh !!!
at least the UC Irvine Anteater
is a mammal – the freaks at
santa cruz went way outside their phylum.
i say: unleash the anteaters on the banana slugs
and let the highly esteemed forces
of Darwinism determine what kind of
“inclusiveness” we end up with.
BTW:
viva Manuel Lopez’s comments
In 1967 in Loving v Virginia, the US Supreme Court struck down state laws banning interracial marriage making it the law of the US. The Spanish media is covering all the statues of Colon aka Columbus being removed, the rewriting of Spanish history etc. BTW the person complaining has a Spanish last name and speaks Spanish.https://www.abc.es/historia/abci-verdadero-genocidio-california-desmonta-parte-leyenda-negra-espanola-201906250153_noticia.html?fbclid=IwAR3hCHnuZ33_uHZJCCjE2lKWW_u9QOUyUw59fMvg_6tfltdgRGrR44oA1Ho
The Lovings (how apt the name) were legally married in Wash., DC (1958) a decade before the decision. Pocahontas and Rolfe 1614. Don’t be such a Gomez. It doesn’t suit you. :)