Latinos have served as the most vocal detractors and defenders of Junípero Serra over the last few months in a fierce debate about the saint's legacy.
In his day, Serra was not well-liked or understood by his own countrymen.
Rudy Najar, 51, at Mission San Gabriel Arcangel in San Gabriel, is a Serra supporter: “The guy is a saint.”In 2015, California Insurance Commissioner and East L.A native Ricardo Lara, 45, made a strong but ultimately unsuccessful push as a state senator to swap“This is the power of representation, to have a woman and member of the LGBTQ+ community representing California would have been a big step,” Lara said. “But instead, we’re left with Father Serra.
“Hey, put up a statue of Cesar Chavez or Dolores Huerta,” Lara said. “We have plenty of heroes. We don’t need someone who erased Native cultures.”“Serra wanted Native societies to transform from one of hunter-gathers to agriculturalists. Well, you do that by destroying their lifestyle, their plants, their animals, their way of living, their values and their culture.
On the other hand, Sandos referred to Serra as “an agent of colonialism” and a key leader of a conquest, “actual and spiritual,” of Indigenous people. The spread of Catholicism and the “salvation of souls,” contends Sandos, came at a high cost.“Serra wanted Native societies to transform from one of hunter-gathers to agriculturalists,” he said. “Well, you do that by destroying their lifestyle, their plants, their animals, their way of living, their values and their culture.
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