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Employees are granted three weeks of pay if they have COVID-19 or are impacted by it, he said, \"so people don't feel pressured to come to work if they're not feeling well.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His cafes are then closed for a \"deep cleaning\" and are reopened with staff from other stores when a COVID-19 case is reported there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We take safety extremely seriously and always err on the side of caution,\" Jaber said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>No coffee for cops\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>In a Facebook post made by Philz coffee ten years ago, the company wrote \"Are you a Fireman? Paramedic? Police Officer? If so, you can start enjoying a 20% discount on your cup of Philz! This is our way of saying thank you! Cheers!\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most recent social media references to offering police officers discounted coffee have been scrubbed from Philz accounts, however. Now that it is ending, Philz current and former baristas are critical of Jaber for ending all discounts, instead of those just for police.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More than 100 Philz employees across the United States organized on social media to demand change not only for the company's COVID-19 practices but for its long-standing discount for police officers and other first responders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11828640\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11828640 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/20200711_194333-800x1067.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"1067\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/20200711_194333-800x1067.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/20200711_194333-1020x1360.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/20200711_194333-160x213.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/20200711_194333-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/20200711_194333-1122x1496.jpg 1122w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/20200711_194333-840x1120.jpg 840w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/20200711_194333-687x916.jpg 687w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/20200711_194333-414x552.jpg 414w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/20200711_194333-354x472.jpg 354w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/20200711_194333.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A protest sign in downtown San Francisco critiques Philz Coffee for its Black Lives Matter stances and COVID-19 safety practices. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Photo)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"Philz Coffee employees in Costa Mesa and San Francisco were fired July 2 and July 3 after expressing their views against police brutality and murder of Black folk,\" one of the baristas' posters claims.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>McQueen, the San Francisco barista who demanded change from Philz Coffee before she was laid off Friday, was repeatedly rebuffed by Jaber in emails she shared with KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While he said in those emails that he wanted to spend time listening to all of his baristas before taking further action on Black Lives Matter, McQueen pushed him to finally end the police discount and to make donations to Black Lives Matter organizations, hire Black people into leadership positions and institute implicit bias training.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By June 10, Jaber said they would create an \"equality and inclusion committee\" within Philz, and later announced the end of all discounts to first responders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>McQueen said she felt \"every interaction I had with him felt like a reminder that he didn't care about my life,\" and that his words to support Black Lives Matter feel performative.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jaber said \"I don't agree with those opinions, but I respect them.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One month later, McQueen was laid off, along with many of the Philz staffers who critiqued the company's policies. They allege Philz targeted them specifically.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Absolutely not. Absolutely not,\" Jaber said of the accusation. \"Unfortunately, I can’t go into details from a confidentiality standpoint, but this is a layoff including many, many, many, many people. It was one of the hardest decisions we had to make.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Skip to:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#serra\">Who was Junípero Serra, and what did he do? \u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/strong>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#serra\"> \u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#removal\">How statues get officially removed – and what you can do personally\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>[dropcap]O[/dropcap]n June 19, people around the Bay Area \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11825274/updates-bay-area-honors-juneteenth-on-the-streets\">took to the streets to mark Juneteenth\u003c/a>: the date in 1865 when the last enslaved people in Texas learned they were free, more than two years after slavery officially ended in the United States. The rallies followed weeks of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/protests\">intense protest\u003c/a> across the country over the killings of George Floyd and other Black people by police, and over systemic racism in the United States.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That evening, protesters \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/FitzTheReporter/status/1274374501925453824\">pulled down a bronze statue\u003c/a> that had stood 30 feet high over San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park for more than a century, spattering it with red paint.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11827294\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1900px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11827294\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/Serra-toppled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1900\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/Serra-toppled.jpg 1900w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/Serra-toppled-800x539.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/Serra-toppled-1020x687.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/Serra-toppled-160x108.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/Serra-toppled-1536x1035.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1900px) 100vw, 1900px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A statue of Junípero Serra toppled from its plinth in San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park by protesters on June 18, 2020. \u003ccite>(Joe Fitzgerald Rodriguez/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The 1907 monument was a tribute to Father Junípero Serra: the 18th century Franciscan priest who presided over the colonizing Spanish mission system in California that resulted in the decimation of the Indigenous population, and who was \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/10682571/pope-francis-courts-controversy-over-junipero-serra-sainthood\">made a saint\u003c/a> by Pope Francis in 2015. Monuments to Ulysses S. Grant and Francis Scott Key, who both enslaved Black people, were also pulled down in the park that night.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Juneteenth topplings followed the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11825103/san-francisco-removes-controversial-christopher-columbus-statue-on-telegraph-hill\">removal\u003c/a> of a Christopher Columbus statue in San Francisco’s North Beach neighborhood by city workers ahead of plans by protesters to topple it themselves, and the removal of a Sacramento \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11824573/statue-of-john-sutter-pioneer-who-enslaved-native-americans-removed-in-sacramento\">monument to John Sutter\u003c/a> — a 19th century colonizer who enslaved Native Americans at his mill. The day after the Golden Gate Park statues fell, Indigenous activists in downtown Los Angeles watched as a 1932 park monument to Serra \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/story/2020-06-20/statue-junipero-serra-monument-protest-activists-take-down-los-angeles\">was ripped off its pedestal\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11827292\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1900px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11827292\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/serra-graffiti.jpg\" alt=\"Graffiti at the former site of a statue of Junípero Serra reads 'Stolen land, stolen people.'\" width=\"1900\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/serra-graffiti.jpg 1900w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/serra-graffiti-800x539.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/serra-graffiti-1020x687.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/serra-graffiti-160x108.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/serra-graffiti-1536x1035.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1900px) 100vw, 1900px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Graffiti at the former site of a statue of Junípero Serra reads ‘Stolen land, stolen people.’ \u003ccite>(Joe Fitzgerald Rodriguez/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>And this past July 4, another statue of Serra was \u003ca href=\"https://www.sacbee.com/news/local/article244012732.html\">torn down in Sacramento’s Capitol Park\u003c/a> by protesters following a day of peaceful marches by demonstrators aligned with the Black Lives Matter movement. The same day, Indigenous activists \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-07-04/indigenous-groups-black-lives-matters-join-forces-to-mark-historical-sins-on-july-4th\">joined forces with Black Lives Matter organizers\u003c/a> for a march in Los Angeles, calling for unity and decrying the historical ‘sins’ of the United States.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Black Lives Matter and the Fight Against Serra Monuments\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Like the timing of the July 4 marches, the Juneteenth timing of the Golden Gate Park Serra statue toppling was highly symbolic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s emotional for sure,” says Morning Star Gali about how it feels to see statues come down. A member of the Ajumawi band of the Pit River Tribe — and the project director of the organization Restoring Justice for Indigenous Peoples — Gali has been involved in campaigns for the removal of several statues in the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She campaigned against the Sacramento monument to Sutter, and was there to watch it fall. She was present too at the contentious \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13859733/sf-had-right-to-remove-early-days-statue-deemed-racist-judge-says\">removal of the Early Days\u003c/a> statue in San Francisco in 2018, which she and others had worked to remove from public view on account of its portrayal of Native Americans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11827286\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1900px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11827286\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/early-days.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1900\" height=\"1758\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/early-days.jpg 1900w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/early-days-800x740.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/early-days-1020x944.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/early-days-160x148.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/early-days-1536x1421.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1900px) 100vw, 1900px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">‘Early Days,’ part of the Pioneer Monument in San Francisco’s Civic Center, was removed in 2018. \u003ccite>(Sam Lefebvre/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>America’s current movement toward social justice, and the deep reckoning with U.S. history that it demands, is “absolutely intersectional,” says Gali.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There is absolutely a mutual understanding of Black and brown and Indigenous liberation that we understand, and we’ve done a lot of work in the past year to get to the point where we’re at.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She and her fellow Indigenous activists are active partners with the Anti Police-Terror Project — work that’s seen them hold memorials and vigils to honor Black victims of police brutality. In Sacramento, Gali’s efforts to \u003ca href=\"https://www.antipoliceterrorproject.org/sac-events/2020/6/17/community-conversations-to-de-serra-sacramento\">“de-Serra” the city\u003c/a> were purposefully held in partnership with the Anti Police-Terror Project, to “really show the solidarity that we have with one another.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These statues are, Gali emphasizes, “monuments to racism. These are monuments to genocide. And it’s time for them to come down.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11827564\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1900px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11827564\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/Gali-Brooke.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1900\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/Gali-Brooke.jpg 1900w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/Gali-Brooke-800x539.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/Gali-Brooke-1020x687.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/Gali-Brooke-160x108.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/Gali-Brooke-1536x1035.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1900px) 100vw, 1900px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Morning Star Gali, with her youngest daughters. \u003ccite>(Brooke Anderson)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Author and academic Greg Sarris is the chairman of the Federated Indians of Graton Rancheria, and lecturer at Sonoma State University’s Native American Studies program. In support of “everyone who is suffering the legacy of racism and injustice,” Sarris says that he and his tribe fully stand behind the Black Lives Matter movement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Let us not forget that the Indians on this continent were the first to find out what European insensitivity would do to us,” he says. “And do to others.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As statues of colonizers are brought down around California — mirroring actions against Confederate monuments further east — Serra remains a particular focus. And for years, he’s been a reviled figure among many Indigenous people for his leadership over a system that resulted in the incalculable loss of Native lives, and forever altered the Indigenous way of life in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When it comes to Serra, this is a fight that has been sustained by Indigenous activists for decades. And far from being a matter that relates mainly to California’s history, it says everything about our state’s present — and future.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003ca id=\"serra\">\u003c/a>Who Was Junípero Serra?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Born in Spain, Junípero Serra first traveled to the Americas in 1749 while in his thirties, to work as a Catholic missionary in Mexico. In 1768, he traveled north to California, and founded a string of missions stretching from San Diego to San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10406942\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1440px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-10406942\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/juniperoserra-e1421339520709.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1440\" height=\"1036\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Father Junípero Serra in a portrait by Father Jose Mosqueda. \u003ccite>(Huntington Library)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>If members of a nearby Indigenous tribe were baptized, they were then brought into a mission where they were ordered to abandon many aspects of their culture and customs, and forced into labor — and prevented from leaving. Anyone who tried to escape the mission was subject to being hunted down and brought back.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Native people in Serra’s missions were subjected to physical punishments like whippings and beating, which Serra himself justified in 1780, \u003ca href=\"https://www.pbs.org/weta/thewest/people/s_z/serra.htm\">writing\u003c/a> “that spiritual fathers should punish their sons, the Indians, with blows appears to be as old as the conquest of [the Americas]; so general in fact that the saints do not seem to be any exception to the rule.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11827259\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1900px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11827259\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/Map.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1900\" height=\"1579\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/Map.jpg 1900w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/Map-800x665.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/Map-1020x848.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/Map-160x133.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/Map-1536x1276.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1900px) 100vw, 1900px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A map of North America dated 1789, showing California when it was part of Spanish-controlled “New Spain.” \u003ccite>(Dobson's Encyclopædia)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Thousands of Indigenous people in the missions died from exposure to European diseases and from the brutal labor they were forced to perform. It was the discovery of the missions’ birth and death rolls — and the revelation that more Native people died under Serra’s system than were born — that sparked a more widespread re-evaluation of his legacy in the 20th century.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The hard physical labor performed by Indigenous people in Serra’s missions was, for years, characterized in history books as ‘work.’ The word for it used today by many, including the descendants of those people, is ‘slavery.’\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Here we were enslaved in the missions, and whipped and beaten,” says Greg Sarris. “Up to 90% of the population [was] decimated, from which we never really recovered.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The missions “were concentration camps,” \u003ca href=\"https://www.montereyherald.com/2015/04/01/easter-sunday-protest-over-serra-planned-at-carmel-mission/\">said Corine Fairbanks\u003c/a> of the American Indian Movement Southern California in 2015, ahead of a protest at Serra’s canonization at the Carmel mission. “They were places of death.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Centuries of spiritual and cultural heritage were erased by the Spanish conversion system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Serra did not just bring us Christianity,” \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/22/us/to-some-indians-in-california-father-serra-is-far-from-a-saint.html\">said academic Deborah Miranda\u003c/a>, a member of the Ohlone Costanoan Esselen Nation and author of “Bad Indians”, in 2015. “He imposed it, giving us no choice in the matter. He did incalculable damage to a whole culture.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Serra the Saint\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>In 2015, Pope Francis announced his \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/10682571/pope-francis-courts-controversy-over-junipero-serra-sainthood\">decision to make Junípero Serra a saint\u003c/a>. The news was met with outrage in California, with protests taking place in San Francisco’s Mission Dolores, Mission Carmel and Mission San Juan Bautista.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11748397\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11748397\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/RS37187_GettyImages-489795578-qut.jpg\" alt=\"Pope Francis pauses in front of a sculpture of Spanish-born Junipero Serra, the Franciscan Friar known for starting missions in California, in Statuary Hall at the U.S. Capitol on September 24, 2015 in Washington, DC.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/RS37187_GettyImages-489795578-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/RS37187_GettyImages-489795578-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/RS37187_GettyImages-489795578-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/RS37187_GettyImages-489795578-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/RS37187_GettyImages-489795578-qut-1200x800.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pope Francis pauses in front of a sculpture of Junípero Serra in Statuary Hall at the U.S. Capitol on September 24, 2015 in Washington, DC. He canonized Serra on this visit. \u003ccite>(Michael Reynolds-Pool/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>An Indigenous-authored \u003ca href=\"https://sign.moveon.org/petitions/urge-pope-francis-to?mailing_id=28356&r_by=504037&source=s.icn.em.cr\">petition\u003c/a> urging the pope to reconsider the canonization received over 11,000 signatures, stating that “it is imperative he is enlightened to understand that Father Serra was responsible for the deception, exploitation, oppression, enslavement and genocide of thousands of Indigenous Californians, ultimately resulting in the largest ethnic cleansing in North America.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A week after the canonization, a statue of Serra in Monterey was decapitated. Two years later in Santa Barbara, another Serra monument at the city’s mission was also decapitated and covered with red paint.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This wasn’t the first time the Church had attempted to elevate Serra’s holy stature. Almost three decades earlier, in 1988, Francis’ predecessor Pope John Paul II had actually kicked off the sanctification process by beatifying Serra. That announcement too was greeted with horror by Indigenous voices, but even back then, it represented only the latest articulation of of anti-Serra protest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11827261\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11827261\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/RS43838_001_KQED_280_JuniperoSerraStatue_06302020-qut.jpg\" alt=\"A statue of Junípero Serra at a rest stop along Interstate 280 near Hillsborough.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/RS43838_001_KQED_280_JuniperoSerraStatue_06302020-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/RS43838_001_KQED_280_JuniperoSerraStatue_06302020-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/RS43838_001_KQED_280_JuniperoSerraStatue_06302020-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/RS43838_001_KQED_280_JuniperoSerraStatue_06302020-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/RS43838_001_KQED_280_JuniperoSerraStatue_06302020-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A statue of Junípero Serra at a rest stop along Interstate 280 near Hillsborough. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Some saw the canonization as a Catholic matter for Catholic people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R4LLtN2fjLA\">a 1989 episode of the TV talk show “Firing Line,”\u003c/a> host William F. Buckley Jr. suggests to guest Edward Castillo – a Cahuilla-Luiseño professor of Native American studies at Sonoma State University and a Serra critic who participated in the 1969 occupation of Alcatraz Island — that as as a non-Christian, “it’s none of your business who the church canonizes.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2015, L.A. Native activist Norma Flores – who worked with the Kizh Nation/Gabrieleño Band of Mission Indians to author the anti-canonization petition — disagreed. “Junípero Serra is being canonized for being an evangelist of the Native peoples in California,” she said. “Why do we not have an active say in this?”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>What Replaces Serra?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Amid a national reckoning with U.S. history, how California deals with Serra is fundamental — not just to the state’s view of its past, but also to how it imagines its future, and the stories it wishes to tell.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11827271\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1900px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11827271\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/san-bautista.jpg\" alt=\"A statue of Father Junípero Serra at Old Mission San Juan Bautista in San Juan Bautista, San Benito County, California.\" width=\"1900\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/san-bautista.jpg 1900w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/san-bautista-800x539.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/san-bautista-1020x687.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/san-bautista-160x108.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/san-bautista-1536x1035.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1900px) 100vw, 1900px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A statue of Father Junípero Serra at Old Mission San Juan Bautista in San Juan Bautista, San Benito County, California. \u003ccite>(The Jon B. Lovelace Collection of California Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Most people that are crying about these statues being removed cannot name the local tribe of where they live,” says Gali. “The fact that they can’t name that San Francisco is Ramaytush Ohlone territory just goes to show the lack of education, really.” She attributes this lack of understanding to an active “suppression of information about the local tribes.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So if a statue comes down, or a place is renamed, what \u003cem>is\u003c/em> the way forward? Should a statue of Serra be replaced by a figure from local Indigenous history?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s not that simple, says April McGill, director of community partnerships and projects at the California Consortium for Urban Indian Health, and the executive director of the American Indian Cultural Center in San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An American Indian of Yuki, Wappo, Little Lake Pomo and Wailaki descent, McGill stresses that statues of colonizers like Serra coming down is the start, \u003cem>not\u003c/em> the solution. Especially when a city doesn’t work to involve Indigenous people in that removal process, and in what comes next.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11827672\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1900px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11827672 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/April.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1900\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/April.jpg 1900w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/April-800x539.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/April-1020x687.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/April-160x108.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/April-1536x1035.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1900px) 100vw, 1900px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">April McGill, an American Indian of Yuki, Wappo, Little Lake Pomo and Wailaki descent. \u003ccite>(April McGill)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>When the city of San Francisco removed its Christopher Columbus statue, for example, McGill saw a lack of “Native presence there to follow a protocol” for marking the event. “There’s always somebody speaking \u003cem>for\u003c/em> our people,” she notes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When it comes to the ‘what next’ after a statue comes down, McGill cautions against thinking only in terms of \u003cem>replacing\u003c/em> the monuments. After all, statues commemorating individuals are “a white thing,” she says, referencing recent words by \u003ca class=\"c-link\" href=\"https://slack-redir.net/link?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.sfchronicle.com%2Fbayarea%2Farticle%2FIn-reckoning-with-oppression-don-t-rush-to-15372699.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-stringify-link=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/In-reckoning-with-oppression-don-t-rush-to-15372699.php\" data-sk=\"tooltip_parent\" aria-describedby=\"sk-tooltip-32618\">Jonathan Cordero, chairperson of the Ramaytush Ohlone\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As to recompense and restitution for the damage done to a region’s Native peoples down the centuries, McGill says a city can begin to truly do right by its Native peoples by recognizing them as living communities with needs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I honestly say: give them a space,” she says. “Give them a park. Create a dance arena. Give them back\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11704679/there-were-once-more-than-425-shellmounds-in-the-bay-area-where-did-they-go\"> their shellmounds\u003c/a> … a place to continue to hold their ceremonies, and grow their indigenous food.” And federal land like San Francisco’s Presidio, McGill says, should be given to “the original stewards of that land,” the Ohlone people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“\u003cem>That’s\u003c/em> how you honor them — not via a statue.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ultimately, McGill says, it’s about answering the question, ‘How do we heal?’\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Serra in Schools\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>If you grew up in California in the last few decades, you could be forgiven for being confused about why statues in Junípero Serra’s honor are being pulled down.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11619652\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11619652\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/MissionProject.jpg\" alt=\"The new History-Social Science framework suggests replacing the Mission-building project with assignments that provide more context to the Spanish missions.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1536\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/MissionProject.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/MissionProject-160x128.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/MissionProject-800x640.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/MissionProject-1020x816.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/MissionProject-1180x944.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/MissionProject-960x768.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/MissionProject-240x192.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/MissionProject-375x300.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/MissionProject-520x416.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The new history-social science framework suggests replacing the mission-building project with assignments that provide more context to the Spanish missions. \u003ccite>(DAVID LOFINK/FLICKR CREATIVE COMMONS)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Generations of California-educated people chiefly remember their fourth-grade “build a model mission” projects — and a conspicuous lack of criticism around Serra and his actions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/hbluv2surf/status/1276257873987637248?s=20\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Of her own fourth grade mission education, Morning Star Gali says she knew “even back then that it was bogus.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Two years ago, when her now 12-year-old son’s fourth grade teacher announced plans for a class visit to a Spanish mission, Gali says she flatly objected.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I said, absolutely not. That’s not happening. I will take my son to the nearby state park, to the nearby roundhouse where he can learn about our California Indian teaching that way. But he will not be doing any ‘mission field trip.'”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/sarahmirk/status/1276225222681563136\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The California Department of Education’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.cde.ca.gov/ci/hs/cf/hssframework.asp\">current guidelines\u003c/a> for fourth grade education on the missions were adopted in 2016-2017. After learning about what life was like for Native peoples in California “before other settlers arrived,” the framework asks teachers to move onto the “colonizing” of California from 1769.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The public school guidelines emphasize how Indigenous peoples were “initially attracted” to the missions, “impressed by the pageantry, material wealth, and abundant food of the Catholic Church,” but that as colonization increasingly disrupted existing food sources and village life, Native peoples began to be drawn into the missions out of survival — and once baptized, missionaries and military forces “conspired to forcibly keep” them there, and pressed them into “forced labor.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/thyanhvo/status/1276229718744813568\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state framework for teachers attributes the “extremely high” death rate among the Indigenous populations during the mission period to not only disease, but “the hardships of forced labor and separation from traditional ways of life.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the same time, it encourages educators to “sensitize” their students to “the various ways in which Indians exhibited agency in the mission system.” They say it’s in the pursuit of “a more comprehensive view of the era.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Greg Sarris says he’s hopeful about the possibility that Indigenous voices have enough influence to make change when it comes to furthering knowledge of Native American history — albeit “sadly,” he says, “only because of the money generated from our casinos that let us use that power.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11827675\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1900px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11827675 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/Greg-cropped.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1900\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/Greg-cropped.jpg 1900w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/Greg-cropped-800x539.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/Greg-cropped-1020x687.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/Greg-cropped-160x108.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/Greg-cropped-1536x1035.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1900px) 100vw, 1900px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Greg Sarris, chairman of the Federated Indians of Graton Rancheria \u003ccite>(Greg Sarris)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The Federated Indians of Graton Rancheria, of which Sarris is chairman, own the land on which the Graton Resort & Casino in Rohnert Park resides. Sarris says he’s working with the National Museum of the American Indian at the Smithsonian, where he’s on the Board of Trustees, and Gov. Newsom to privately finance a new template for California public schools to better teach children about their state’s Indigenous history.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Who Gets to Define Serra for California?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Critics of statue-toppling in California have characterized ongoing protests as a passing moment, or somehow opportunistic of the current anti-racism uprising in the nation’s streets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After releasing \u003ca href=\"https://sfarchdiocese.org/letters-and-statements\">statements in June on the killing of George Floyd\u003c/a> by Minneapolis police, which called for readers “to join together in prayer for an end to racism in all its pernicious manifestations,” the Archdiocese of San Francisco released \u003ca href=\"https://sfarchdiocese.org/letters-and-statements\">a statement on the “destruction” of Golden Gate Park Serra statue\u003c/a>. It was subtitled “Healing of Memories and Historical Accuracy.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10682581\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-10682581\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/RS16659_FullSizeRender-7-Copy-qut.jpg\" alt=\"A statue of Father Junípero Serra outside the San Gabriel Mission.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/RS16659_FullSizeRender-7-Copy-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/RS16659_FullSizeRender-7-Copy-qut-400x300.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/RS16659_FullSizeRender-7-Copy-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/RS16659_FullSizeRender-7-Copy-qut-1440x1080.jpg 1440w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/RS16659_FullSizeRender-7-Copy-qut-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/RS16659_FullSizeRender-7-Copy-qut-960x720.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A statue of Father Junípero Serra outside the San Gabriel Mission. \u003ccite>(George Lavender/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Its author, Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone, called the removal “the latest example” of how “a renewed national movement to heal memories and correct the injustices of racism and police brutality in our country has been hijacked by some into a movement of violence, looting and vandalism.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The memorialization of historic figures,” he stated, “merits an honest and fair discussion as to how and to whom such honor should be given.” Instead, it characterized the statue toppling as “mob rule” — enacted against the memory of a man who “made heroic sacrifices to protect the indigenous people of California from their Spanish conquerors” and offered them “the best thing he had: the knowledge and love of Jesus Christ.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On June 27, Archbishop Cordileone and other Catholics joined at the site of the topped Serra statue in Golden Gate Park to \u003ca href=\"https://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2020/06/30/san-francisco-archbishop-exorcism-golden-gate-park-junipero-serra-statue-toppled/\">perform an exorcism\u003c/a>, saying that “evil has made itself present here” owing to the monument being “blasphemously torn down.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The New York-based Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights reacted to the Golden Gate Park incident with even more vehemence, with president Bill Donohue commenting that “Smashing statues of American icons is all the rage among urban barbarians. Ignorant of history, they are destroying statues of those who were among the most enlightened persons of their time.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Serra, Donohue says, “fought hard for the rights of Indians, and was rightfully canonized by Pope Francis in 2015.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Comparing the Catholic Church’s view of the missions with the perspectives of Indigenous activists can make it seem like there are two Serras; two completely different versions of the Californian timeline. Yet as Dara Lind writes in her\u003ca href=\"https://www.vox.com/2015/9/24/9391995/junipero-serra-saint-pope-francis\"> 2015 Vox explainer\u003c/a> on Pope Francis’s decision to sanctify, Serra “was canonized because what he did during his life was good \u003cem>according to Catholic teaching\u003c/em>.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11827264\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1900px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11827264\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/Serra-GG-park.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1900\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/Serra-GG-park.jpg 1900w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/Serra-GG-park-800x539.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/Serra-GG-park-1020x687.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/Serra-GG-park-160x108.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/Serra-GG-park-1536x1035.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1900px) 100vw, 1900px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The statue of Junípero Serra in Golden Gate Park, before it was torn down on June 18, 2020 \u003ccite>(Burkhard Mücke)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Morning Star Gali says she’s tired of the ‘historical vandalism’ narrative in much of the mainstream commentary she sees around statue removals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People are treating it like, ‘oh, this is such an awful thing; this is erasure of history.’ No, it’s erasure of the lies that are perpetuated to support white supremacy.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gali’s own message regarding “the healing of memories and historical accuracy?” — “Tear down these monuments to genocide, tear down white supremacy: One statue at a time.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>When Serra Became a Myth\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>To understand why Junípero Serra looms so large in the California consciousness, from the statues around us to the things we (still) teach our schoolchildren, it helps to know that his status as a California legend appears to have been no accident. It was rather an integral part of how California wished to see itself — and be seen — during the Gold Rush.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Serra’s reputation as a kind of California founding father was intentionally built at the end of the 19th century, in what \u003ca href=\"https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2015/09/junipero-serra-pope-francis-colonialism/406306/\">Atlantic writer Emma Green calls\u003c/a> “basically a marketing effort as settlers came to Southern California in the 1880s.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11827266\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1900px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11827266\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/Monterey.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1900\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/Monterey.jpg 1900w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/Monterey-800x539.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/Monterey-1020x687.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/Monterey-160x108.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/Monterey-1536x1035.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1900px) 100vw, 1900px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An 1877 painting by Léon Trousset: ‘Father Serra Celebrates Mass at Monterey.’ \u003ccite>(Public Domain)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2015/09/junipero-serra-pope-francis-colonialism/406306/\">According to historian Bob Senkewicz\u003c/a>, author and professor at Santa Clara University, this drive to justify white westward expansion at a time when the state’s prosperity depended on it resulted in the creation of “a mission mythology of dedicated, selfless missionaries and happy, contented Indians. And this mythology created a notion of California before the U.S. as a kind of bucolic arcadia.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Native people have “always been the tabula rasa on which Californians can write their fantasies,” says Greg Sarris. “One of which is Junípero Serra. And we’ve been so decimated that we haven’t had the power or a loud enough or big enough voice to say, no, you cannot write our story.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The legacy of that 19th century “marketing effort” lingers not only in the Serra statues and countless Serra place names across California — and in \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11621122/el-camino-not-so-real-the-true-story-of-the-ancient-road\">the mythology of the “Camino Real”\u003c/a> — but on a national stage. In 1985, the U.S. Postal Service commemorated Serra with his own postage stamp.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11827267\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1900px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11827267\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/slo-MISSION.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1900\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/slo-MISSION.jpg 1900w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/slo-MISSION-800x539.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/slo-MISSION-1020x687.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/slo-MISSION-160x108.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/slo-MISSION-1536x1035.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1900px) 100vw, 1900px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mission San Luis Obispo de Tolosa, a Spanish mission founded in 1772 by Serra in the present-day city of San Luis Obispo. \u003ccite>(The Jon B. Lovelace Collection of California Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In the U.S. Capitol collection of state statues, several states are represented by 21st-century statues of Indigenous people, such as New Mexico (Pueblo leader Po’pay) and Wyoming (Chief Washakie of the Shoshone) — but a bronze figure of Serra has represented California since 1931.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alongside it, the state of Virginia is still represented by a 1909 statue of Confederate general Robert E. Lee.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Serra as Symbol\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Why has Serra in particular — and the monuments erected in his honor — become \u003cem>such\u003c/em> a flashpoint in this moment, as anti-racism campaigners take their fight to the streets?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For Sarris, Serra represents a way of thinking about Indigenous culture — as something not to be understood and preserved, but colonized and assimilated — that has traumatic repercussions today. “Here was a man who represented a culture that felt entitled to dominate another culture,” he says. “The cultural insensitivity that resulted in violence and the death of 90% of the California Indian population is something to be understood, and not cherished.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Compared with the drive against Confederate statues on the East Coast, Sarris just doesn’t see “enough interest or understanding of the violence against California Indians for the larger California general public to say, take down Junípero Serra.” At least, not yet. And for him, that lack of urgency from non-Native people around Serra’s legacy stems from fundamental misunderstandings about California’s Native history and culture.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11824391\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11824391\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/RS43652_GettyImages-1219619841-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/RS43652_GettyImages-1219619841-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/RS43652_GettyImages-1219619841-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/RS43652_GettyImages-1219619841-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/RS43652_GettyImages-1219619841-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A rainbow is projected over the statue of Confederate General Robert Lee on June 12, 2020 in Richmond, Virginia. Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam ordered the removal of the General Lee statue as soon as possible but legal proceedings have temporarily halted those plans. \u003ccite>(Eze Amos/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>For Morning Star Gali, the still-standing Serra statues represent a visual emblem of the wider issue at hand: California’s systemic inaction towards its Native peoples. She notes that June marks one year since Gov. Gavin Newsom \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/19/us/newsom-native-american-apology.html\">delivered an apology\u003c/a> “for the many instances of violence, mistreatment and neglect inflicted upon California Native Americans throughout the state’s history.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But, Gali notes, “an apology is nothing without action” — especially where it concerns vital decisions being made for Indigenous people without their input.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most recently, she says, where is that action regarding the coronavirus relief funds provided by the CARES Act? Funds were dispersed only to Native tribes that are federally recognized, to the exclusion of tribes that have been terminated, disenrolled and disenfranchised. The federal government, Gali notes, still “gets to decide who is and who is not a Native person in California.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the lack of a specific apology from the Catholic Church for Serra’s legacy, Gali sees this same inaction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Until that’s done,” she says, “there is still a gaping wound that needs to be healed.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003ca id=\"removal\">\u003c/a>How Can You Challenge a Statue or Place Name?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>If there’s a statue or place name in your area that you want to officially challenge, how can you do that as a member of the public?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Arianna Antone-Ramirez is a research associate at the California Consortium for Urban Indian Health, and is on the board of the American Indian Cultural Center of San Francisco. Born and raised in the Mission District of San Francisco, she’s a member of the Tohono O’odham Nation in Arizona and was a part of the campaign to remove San Francisco’s Early Days statue. Her key advice for activism in this field? “Let the community lead” — especially if you’re a non-Indigenous ally.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Antone-Ramirez recommends beginning by researching the communities who are “directly affected” by the issue at hand, finding out what they’re already working on, and offering support to their organizers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11827558\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1900px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11827558\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/Arriana.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1900\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/Arriana.jpg 1900w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/Arriana-800x539.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/Arriana-1020x687.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/Arriana-160x108.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/Arriana-1536x1035.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1900px) 100vw, 1900px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Arianna Antone-Ramirez is a member of the Tohono O’odham Nation in Arizona, and was a part of the campaign to remove San Francisco’s Early Days statue. \u003ccite>(Arianna Antone-Ramirez)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>She also advises embarking on your \u003cem>own\u003c/em> bureaucratic research.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Has anything come up in my city council? Wherever you live, have there been any hearings about this? … Where is this issue now? Is it in a committee?” Acquiring this familiarity with civic processes, says Antone-Ramirez, will really help these efforts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And what \u003cem>are\u003c/em> these processes?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The best approach for challenging a statue or place name is “the same as approaching the city government for any other civic inquiry,” says Rebekah Krell, acting director of cultural affairs at the San Francisco Arts Commission – the city body that was involved in the removal of the Early Days statue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The governmental bodies she recommends contacting:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Your District Supervisor\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>The Mayor’s office of your town/city\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>The local Arts Commission\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Your local non-emergency 311 line\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>Krell also advises attending “any number of public meetings” to “pose general public comment.” This, she says, is how member of the public campaigning for the removal of the Early Days monument “got the ball rolling”– “the community came to a [monthly] public Arts Commission meeting” and spoke up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If a group is specifically looking to challenge a monument or public artwork, Krell says that the agency governing these can differ from municipality. It could be an Arts Commission (as in San Francisco), a Parks Department or your city’s Public Works.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“But when all else fails,” she says, “your elected city representative (council member, district supervisor, etc.) office should be able to direct your concern.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The San Francisco Arts Commission has \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13883431/city-to-evaluate-public-monuments-but-community-questions-its-track-record\">announced plans\u003c/a> to now evaluate the the city’s nearly one hundred public monuments and memorials — and whether any of them should be removed. The plans will apparently entail the city examining factors including the story behind the historical figure a work depicts, the artist who made it, the community’s response so far, and the cost of its removal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>The original story incorrectly listed Greg Sarris as the owner of Graton Resort & Casino and has since been corrected.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Skip to:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#serra\">Who was Junípero Serra, and what did he do? \u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/strong>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#serra\"> \u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#removal\">How statues get officially removed – and what you can do personally\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class=\"utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__dropcapShortcode__dropcap\">O\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>n June 19, people around the Bay Area \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11825274/updates-bay-area-honors-juneteenth-on-the-streets\">took to the streets to mark Juneteenth\u003c/a>: the date in 1865 when the last enslaved people in Texas learned they were free, more than two years after slavery officially ended in the United States. The rallies followed weeks of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/protests\">intense protest\u003c/a> across the country over the killings of George Floyd and other Black people by police, and over systemic racism in the United States.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That evening, protesters \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/FitzTheReporter/status/1274374501925453824\">pulled down a bronze statue\u003c/a> that had stood 30 feet high over San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park for more than a century, spattering it with red paint.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11827294\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1900px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11827294\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/Serra-toppled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1900\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/Serra-toppled.jpg 1900w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/Serra-toppled-800x539.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/Serra-toppled-1020x687.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/Serra-toppled-160x108.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/Serra-toppled-1536x1035.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1900px) 100vw, 1900px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A statue of Junípero Serra toppled from its plinth in San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park by protesters on June 18, 2020. \u003ccite>(Joe Fitzgerald Rodriguez/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The 1907 monument was a tribute to Father Junípero Serra: the 18th century Franciscan priest who presided over the colonizing Spanish mission system in California that resulted in the decimation of the Indigenous population, and who was \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/10682571/pope-francis-courts-controversy-over-junipero-serra-sainthood\">made a saint\u003c/a> by Pope Francis in 2015. Monuments to Ulysses S. Grant and Francis Scott Key, who both enslaved Black people, were also pulled down in the park that night.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Juneteenth topplings followed the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11825103/san-francisco-removes-controversial-christopher-columbus-statue-on-telegraph-hill\">removal\u003c/a> of a Christopher Columbus statue in San Francisco’s North Beach neighborhood by city workers ahead of plans by protesters to topple it themselves, and the removal of a Sacramento \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11824573/statue-of-john-sutter-pioneer-who-enslaved-native-americans-removed-in-sacramento\">monument to John Sutter\u003c/a> — a 19th century colonizer who enslaved Native Americans at his mill. The day after the Golden Gate Park statues fell, Indigenous activists in downtown Los Angeles watched as a 1932 park monument to Serra \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/story/2020-06-20/statue-junipero-serra-monument-protest-activists-take-down-los-angeles\">was ripped off its pedestal\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11827292\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1900px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11827292\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/serra-graffiti.jpg\" alt=\"Graffiti at the former site of a statue of Junípero Serra reads 'Stolen land, stolen people.'\" width=\"1900\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/serra-graffiti.jpg 1900w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/serra-graffiti-800x539.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/serra-graffiti-1020x687.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/serra-graffiti-160x108.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/serra-graffiti-1536x1035.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1900px) 100vw, 1900px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Graffiti at the former site of a statue of Junípero Serra reads ‘Stolen land, stolen people.’ \u003ccite>(Joe Fitzgerald Rodriguez/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>And this past July 4, another statue of Serra was \u003ca href=\"https://www.sacbee.com/news/local/article244012732.html\">torn down in Sacramento’s Capitol Park\u003c/a> by protesters following a day of peaceful marches by demonstrators aligned with the Black Lives Matter movement. The same day, Indigenous activists \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-07-04/indigenous-groups-black-lives-matters-join-forces-to-mark-historical-sins-on-july-4th\">joined forces with Black Lives Matter organizers\u003c/a> for a march in Los Angeles, calling for unity and decrying the historical ‘sins’ of the United States.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Black Lives Matter and the Fight Against Serra Monuments\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Like the timing of the July 4 marches, the Juneteenth timing of the Golden Gate Park Serra statue toppling was highly symbolic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s emotional for sure,” says Morning Star Gali about how it feels to see statues come down. A member of the Ajumawi band of the Pit River Tribe — and the project director of the organization Restoring Justice for Indigenous Peoples — Gali has been involved in campaigns for the removal of several statues in the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She campaigned against the Sacramento monument to Sutter, and was there to watch it fall. She was present too at the contentious \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13859733/sf-had-right-to-remove-early-days-statue-deemed-racist-judge-says\">removal of the Early Days\u003c/a> statue in San Francisco in 2018, which she and others had worked to remove from public view on account of its portrayal of Native Americans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11827286\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1900px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11827286\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/early-days.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1900\" height=\"1758\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/early-days.jpg 1900w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/early-days-800x740.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/early-days-1020x944.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/early-days-160x148.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/early-days-1536x1421.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1900px) 100vw, 1900px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">‘Early Days,’ part of the Pioneer Monument in San Francisco’s Civic Center, was removed in 2018. \u003ccite>(Sam Lefebvre/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>America’s current movement toward social justice, and the deep reckoning with U.S. history that it demands, is “absolutely intersectional,” says Gali.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There is absolutely a mutual understanding of Black and brown and Indigenous liberation that we understand, and we’ve done a lot of work in the past year to get to the point where we’re at.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She and her fellow Indigenous activists are active partners with the Anti Police-Terror Project — work that’s seen them hold memorials and vigils to honor Black victims of police brutality. In Sacramento, Gali’s efforts to \u003ca href=\"https://www.antipoliceterrorproject.org/sac-events/2020/6/17/community-conversations-to-de-serra-sacramento\">“de-Serra” the city\u003c/a> were purposefully held in partnership with the Anti Police-Terror Project, to “really show the solidarity that we have with one another.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These statues are, Gali emphasizes, “monuments to racism. These are monuments to genocide. And it’s time for them to come down.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11827564\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1900px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11827564\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/Gali-Brooke.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1900\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/Gali-Brooke.jpg 1900w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/Gali-Brooke-800x539.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/Gali-Brooke-1020x687.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/Gali-Brooke-160x108.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/Gali-Brooke-1536x1035.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1900px) 100vw, 1900px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Morning Star Gali, with her youngest daughters. \u003ccite>(Brooke Anderson)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Author and academic Greg Sarris is the chairman of the Federated Indians of Graton Rancheria, and lecturer at Sonoma State University’s Native American Studies program. In support of “everyone who is suffering the legacy of racism and injustice,” Sarris says that he and his tribe fully stand behind the Black Lives Matter movement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Let us not forget that the Indians on this continent were the first to find out what European insensitivity would do to us,” he says. “And do to others.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As statues of colonizers are brought down around California — mirroring actions against Confederate monuments further east — Serra remains a particular focus. And for years, he’s been a reviled figure among many Indigenous people for his leadership over a system that resulted in the incalculable loss of Native lives, and forever altered the Indigenous way of life in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When it comes to Serra, this is a fight that has been sustained by Indigenous activists for decades. And far from being a matter that relates mainly to California’s history, it says everything about our state’s present — and future.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003ca id=\"serra\">\u003c/a>Who Was Junípero Serra?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Born in Spain, Junípero Serra first traveled to the Americas in 1749 while in his thirties, to work as a Catholic missionary in Mexico. In 1768, he traveled north to California, and founded a string of missions stretching from San Diego to San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10406942\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1440px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-10406942\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/juniperoserra-e1421339520709.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1440\" height=\"1036\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Father Junípero Serra in a portrait by Father Jose Mosqueda. \u003ccite>(Huntington Library)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>If members of a nearby Indigenous tribe were baptized, they were then brought into a mission where they were ordered to abandon many aspects of their culture and customs, and forced into labor — and prevented from leaving. Anyone who tried to escape the mission was subject to being hunted down and brought back.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Native people in Serra’s missions were subjected to physical punishments like whippings and beating, which Serra himself justified in 1780, \u003ca href=\"https://www.pbs.org/weta/thewest/people/s_z/serra.htm\">writing\u003c/a> “that spiritual fathers should punish their sons, the Indians, with blows appears to be as old as the conquest of [the Americas]; so general in fact that the saints do not seem to be any exception to the rule.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11827259\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1900px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11827259\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/Map.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1900\" height=\"1579\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/Map.jpg 1900w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/Map-800x665.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/Map-1020x848.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/Map-160x133.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/Map-1536x1276.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1900px) 100vw, 1900px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A map of North America dated 1789, showing California when it was part of Spanish-controlled “New Spain.” \u003ccite>(Dobson's Encyclopædia)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Thousands of Indigenous people in the missions died from exposure to European diseases and from the brutal labor they were forced to perform. It was the discovery of the missions’ birth and death rolls — and the revelation that more Native people died under Serra’s system than were born — that sparked a more widespread re-evaluation of his legacy in the 20th century.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The hard physical labor performed by Indigenous people in Serra’s missions was, for years, characterized in history books as ‘work.’ The word for it used today by many, including the descendants of those people, is ‘slavery.’\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Here we were enslaved in the missions, and whipped and beaten,” says Greg Sarris. “Up to 90% of the population [was] decimated, from which we never really recovered.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The missions “were concentration camps,” \u003ca href=\"https://www.montereyherald.com/2015/04/01/easter-sunday-protest-over-serra-planned-at-carmel-mission/\">said Corine Fairbanks\u003c/a> of the American Indian Movement Southern California in 2015, ahead of a protest at Serra’s canonization at the Carmel mission. “They were places of death.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Centuries of spiritual and cultural heritage were erased by the Spanish conversion system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Serra did not just bring us Christianity,” \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/22/us/to-some-indians-in-california-father-serra-is-far-from-a-saint.html\">said academic Deborah Miranda\u003c/a>, a member of the Ohlone Costanoan Esselen Nation and author of “Bad Indians”, in 2015. “He imposed it, giving us no choice in the matter. He did incalculable damage to a whole culture.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Serra the Saint\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>In 2015, Pope Francis announced his \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/10682571/pope-francis-courts-controversy-over-junipero-serra-sainthood\">decision to make Junípero Serra a saint\u003c/a>. The news was met with outrage in California, with protests taking place in San Francisco’s Mission Dolores, Mission Carmel and Mission San Juan Bautista.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11748397\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11748397\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/RS37187_GettyImages-489795578-qut.jpg\" alt=\"Pope Francis pauses in front of a sculpture of Spanish-born Junipero Serra, the Franciscan Friar known for starting missions in California, in Statuary Hall at the U.S. Capitol on September 24, 2015 in Washington, DC.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/RS37187_GettyImages-489795578-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/RS37187_GettyImages-489795578-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/RS37187_GettyImages-489795578-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/RS37187_GettyImages-489795578-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/RS37187_GettyImages-489795578-qut-1200x800.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pope Francis pauses in front of a sculpture of Junípero Serra in Statuary Hall at the U.S. Capitol on September 24, 2015 in Washington, DC. He canonized Serra on this visit. \u003ccite>(Michael Reynolds-Pool/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>An Indigenous-authored \u003ca href=\"https://sign.moveon.org/petitions/urge-pope-francis-to?mailing_id=28356&r_by=504037&source=s.icn.em.cr\">petition\u003c/a> urging the pope to reconsider the canonization received over 11,000 signatures, stating that “it is imperative he is enlightened to understand that Father Serra was responsible for the deception, exploitation, oppression, enslavement and genocide of thousands of Indigenous Californians, ultimately resulting in the largest ethnic cleansing in North America.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A week after the canonization, a statue of Serra in Monterey was decapitated. Two years later in Santa Barbara, another Serra monument at the city’s mission was also decapitated and covered with red paint.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This wasn’t the first time the Church had attempted to elevate Serra’s holy stature. Almost three decades earlier, in 1988, Francis’ predecessor Pope John Paul II had actually kicked off the sanctification process by beatifying Serra. That announcement too was greeted with horror by Indigenous voices, but even back then, it represented only the latest articulation of of anti-Serra protest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11827261\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11827261\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/RS43838_001_KQED_280_JuniperoSerraStatue_06302020-qut.jpg\" alt=\"A statue of Junípero Serra at a rest stop along Interstate 280 near Hillsborough.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/RS43838_001_KQED_280_JuniperoSerraStatue_06302020-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/RS43838_001_KQED_280_JuniperoSerraStatue_06302020-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/RS43838_001_KQED_280_JuniperoSerraStatue_06302020-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/RS43838_001_KQED_280_JuniperoSerraStatue_06302020-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/RS43838_001_KQED_280_JuniperoSerraStatue_06302020-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A statue of Junípero Serra at a rest stop along Interstate 280 near Hillsborough. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Some saw the canonization as a Catholic matter for Catholic people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R4LLtN2fjLA\">a 1989 episode of the TV talk show “Firing Line,”\u003c/a> host William F. Buckley Jr. suggests to guest Edward Castillo – a Cahuilla-Luiseño professor of Native American studies at Sonoma State University and a Serra critic who participated in the 1969 occupation of Alcatraz Island — that as as a non-Christian, “it’s none of your business who the church canonizes.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2015, L.A. Native activist Norma Flores – who worked with the Kizh Nation/Gabrieleño Band of Mission Indians to author the anti-canonization petition — disagreed. “Junípero Serra is being canonized for being an evangelist of the Native peoples in California,” she said. “Why do we not have an active say in this?”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>What Replaces Serra?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Amid a national reckoning with U.S. history, how California deals with Serra is fundamental — not just to the state’s view of its past, but also to how it imagines its future, and the stories it wishes to tell.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11827271\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1900px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11827271\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/san-bautista.jpg\" alt=\"A statue of Father Junípero Serra at Old Mission San Juan Bautista in San Juan Bautista, San Benito County, California.\" width=\"1900\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/san-bautista.jpg 1900w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/san-bautista-800x539.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/san-bautista-1020x687.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/san-bautista-160x108.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/san-bautista-1536x1035.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1900px) 100vw, 1900px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A statue of Father Junípero Serra at Old Mission San Juan Bautista in San Juan Bautista, San Benito County, California. \u003ccite>(The Jon B. Lovelace Collection of California Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Most people that are crying about these statues being removed cannot name the local tribe of where they live,” says Gali. “The fact that they can’t name that San Francisco is Ramaytush Ohlone territory just goes to show the lack of education, really.” She attributes this lack of understanding to an active “suppression of information about the local tribes.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So if a statue comes down, or a place is renamed, what \u003cem>is\u003c/em> the way forward? Should a statue of Serra be replaced by a figure from local Indigenous history?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s not that simple, says April McGill, director of community partnerships and projects at the California Consortium for Urban Indian Health, and the executive director of the American Indian Cultural Center in San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An American Indian of Yuki, Wappo, Little Lake Pomo and Wailaki descent, McGill stresses that statues of colonizers like Serra coming down is the start, \u003cem>not\u003c/em> the solution. Especially when a city doesn’t work to involve Indigenous people in that removal process, and in what comes next.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11827672\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1900px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11827672 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/April.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1900\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/April.jpg 1900w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/April-800x539.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/April-1020x687.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/April-160x108.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/April-1536x1035.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1900px) 100vw, 1900px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">April McGill, an American Indian of Yuki, Wappo, Little Lake Pomo and Wailaki descent. \u003ccite>(April McGill)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>When the city of San Francisco removed its Christopher Columbus statue, for example, McGill saw a lack of “Native presence there to follow a protocol” for marking the event. “There’s always somebody speaking \u003cem>for\u003c/em> our people,” she notes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When it comes to the ‘what next’ after a statue comes down, McGill cautions against thinking only in terms of \u003cem>replacing\u003c/em> the monuments. After all, statues commemorating individuals are “a white thing,” she says, referencing recent words by \u003ca class=\"c-link\" href=\"https://slack-redir.net/link?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.sfchronicle.com%2Fbayarea%2Farticle%2FIn-reckoning-with-oppression-don-t-rush-to-15372699.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-stringify-link=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/In-reckoning-with-oppression-don-t-rush-to-15372699.php\" data-sk=\"tooltip_parent\" aria-describedby=\"sk-tooltip-32618\">Jonathan Cordero, chairperson of the Ramaytush Ohlone\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As to recompense and restitution for the damage done to a region’s Native peoples down the centuries, McGill says a city can begin to truly do right by its Native peoples by recognizing them as living communities with needs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I honestly say: give them a space,” she says. “Give them a park. Create a dance arena. Give them back\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11704679/there-were-once-more-than-425-shellmounds-in-the-bay-area-where-did-they-go\"> their shellmounds\u003c/a> … a place to continue to hold their ceremonies, and grow their indigenous food.” And federal land like San Francisco’s Presidio, McGill says, should be given to “the original stewards of that land,” the Ohlone people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“\u003cem>That’s\u003c/em> how you honor them — not via a statue.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ultimately, McGill says, it’s about answering the question, ‘How do we heal?’\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Serra in Schools\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>If you grew up in California in the last few decades, you could be forgiven for being confused about why statues in Junípero Serra’s honor are being pulled down.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11619652\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11619652\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/MissionProject.jpg\" alt=\"The new History-Social Science framework suggests replacing the Mission-building project with assignments that provide more context to the Spanish missions.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1536\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/MissionProject.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/MissionProject-160x128.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/MissionProject-800x640.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/MissionProject-1020x816.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/MissionProject-1180x944.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/MissionProject-960x768.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/MissionProject-240x192.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/MissionProject-375x300.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/MissionProject-520x416.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The new history-social science framework suggests replacing the mission-building project with assignments that provide more context to the Spanish missions. \u003ccite>(DAVID LOFINK/FLICKR CREATIVE COMMONS)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Generations of California-educated people chiefly remember their fourth-grade “build a model mission” projects — and a conspicuous lack of criticism around Serra and his actions.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\n\u003cp>The state framework for teachers attributes the “extremely high” death rate among the Indigenous populations during the mission period to not only disease, but “the hardships of forced labor and separation from traditional ways of life.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the same time, it encourages educators to “sensitize” their students to “the various ways in which Indians exhibited agency in the mission system.” They say it’s in the pursuit of “a more comprehensive view of the era.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Greg Sarris says he’s hopeful about the possibility that Indigenous voices have enough influence to make change when it comes to furthering knowledge of Native American history — albeit “sadly,” he says, “only because of the money generated from our casinos that let us use that power.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11827675\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1900px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11827675 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/Greg-cropped.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1900\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/Greg-cropped.jpg 1900w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/Greg-cropped-800x539.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/Greg-cropped-1020x687.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/Greg-cropped-160x108.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/Greg-cropped-1536x1035.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1900px) 100vw, 1900px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Greg Sarris, chairman of the Federated Indians of Graton Rancheria \u003ccite>(Greg Sarris)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The Federated Indians of Graton Rancheria, of which Sarris is chairman, own the land on which the Graton Resort & Casino in Rohnert Park resides. Sarris says he’s working with the National Museum of the American Indian at the Smithsonian, where he’s on the Board of Trustees, and Gov. Newsom to privately finance a new template for California public schools to better teach children about their state’s Indigenous history.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Who Gets to Define Serra for California?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Critics of statue-toppling in California have characterized ongoing protests as a passing moment, or somehow opportunistic of the current anti-racism uprising in the nation’s streets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After releasing \u003ca href=\"https://sfarchdiocese.org/letters-and-statements\">statements in June on the killing of George Floyd\u003c/a> by Minneapolis police, which called for readers “to join together in prayer for an end to racism in all its pernicious manifestations,” the Archdiocese of San Francisco released \u003ca href=\"https://sfarchdiocese.org/letters-and-statements\">a statement on the “destruction” of Golden Gate Park Serra statue\u003c/a>. It was subtitled “Healing of Memories and Historical Accuracy.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10682581\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-10682581\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/RS16659_FullSizeRender-7-Copy-qut.jpg\" alt=\"A statue of Father Junípero Serra outside the San Gabriel Mission.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/RS16659_FullSizeRender-7-Copy-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/RS16659_FullSizeRender-7-Copy-qut-400x300.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/RS16659_FullSizeRender-7-Copy-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/RS16659_FullSizeRender-7-Copy-qut-1440x1080.jpg 1440w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/RS16659_FullSizeRender-7-Copy-qut-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/RS16659_FullSizeRender-7-Copy-qut-960x720.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A statue of Father Junípero Serra outside the San Gabriel Mission. \u003ccite>(George Lavender/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Its author, Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone, called the removal “the latest example” of how “a renewed national movement to heal memories and correct the injustices of racism and police brutality in our country has been hijacked by some into a movement of violence, looting and vandalism.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The memorialization of historic figures,” he stated, “merits an honest and fair discussion as to how and to whom such honor should be given.” Instead, it characterized the statue toppling as “mob rule” — enacted against the memory of a man who “made heroic sacrifices to protect the indigenous people of California from their Spanish conquerors” and offered them “the best thing he had: the knowledge and love of Jesus Christ.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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Ignorant of history, they are destroying statues of those who were among the most enlightened persons of their time.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Serra, Donohue says, “fought hard for the rights of Indians, and was rightfully canonized by Pope Francis in 2015.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Comparing the Catholic Church’s view of the missions with the perspectives of Indigenous activists can make it seem like there are two Serras; two completely different versions of the Californian timeline. Yet as Dara Lind writes in her\u003ca href=\"https://www.vox.com/2015/9/24/9391995/junipero-serra-saint-pope-francis\"> 2015 Vox explainer\u003c/a> on Pope Francis’s decision to sanctify, Serra “was canonized because what he did during his life was good \u003cem>according to Catholic teaching\u003c/em>.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11827264\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1900px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11827264\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/Serra-GG-park.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1900\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/Serra-GG-park.jpg 1900w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/Serra-GG-park-800x539.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/Serra-GG-park-1020x687.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/Serra-GG-park-160x108.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/Serra-GG-park-1536x1035.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1900px) 100vw, 1900px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The statue of Junípero Serra in Golden Gate Park, before it was torn down on June 18, 2020 \u003ccite>(Burkhard Mücke)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Morning Star Gali says she’s tired of the ‘historical vandalism’ narrative in much of the mainstream commentary she sees around statue removals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People are treating it like, ‘oh, this is such an awful thing; this is erasure of history.’ No, it’s erasure of the lies that are perpetuated to support white supremacy.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gali’s own message regarding “the healing of memories and historical accuracy?” — “Tear down these monuments to genocide, tear down white supremacy: One statue at a time.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>When Serra Became a Myth\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>To understand why Junípero Serra looms so large in the California consciousness, from the statues around us to the things we (still) teach our schoolchildren, it helps to know that his status as a California legend appears to have been no accident. It was rather an integral part of how California wished to see itself — and be seen — during the Gold Rush.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Serra’s reputation as a kind of California founding father was intentionally built at the end of the 19th century, in what \u003ca href=\"https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2015/09/junipero-serra-pope-francis-colonialism/406306/\">Atlantic writer Emma Green calls\u003c/a> “basically a marketing effort as settlers came to Southern California in the 1880s.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11827266\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1900px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11827266\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/Monterey.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1900\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/Monterey.jpg 1900w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/Monterey-800x539.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/Monterey-1020x687.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/Monterey-160x108.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/Monterey-1536x1035.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1900px) 100vw, 1900px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An 1877 painting by Léon Trousset: ‘Father Serra Celebrates Mass at Monterey.’ \u003ccite>(Public Domain)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2015/09/junipero-serra-pope-francis-colonialism/406306/\">According to historian Bob Senkewicz\u003c/a>, author and professor at Santa Clara University, this drive to justify white westward expansion at a time when the state’s prosperity depended on it resulted in the creation of “a mission mythology of dedicated, selfless missionaries and happy, contented Indians. And this mythology created a notion of California before the U.S. as a kind of bucolic arcadia.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Native people have “always been the tabula rasa on which Californians can write their fantasies,” says Greg Sarris. “One of which is Junípero Serra. And we’ve been so decimated that we haven’t had the power or a loud enough or big enough voice to say, no, you cannot write our story.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The legacy of that 19th century “marketing effort” lingers not only in the Serra statues and countless Serra place names across California — and in \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11621122/el-camino-not-so-real-the-true-story-of-the-ancient-road\">the mythology of the “Camino Real”\u003c/a> — but on a national stage. In 1985, the U.S. Postal Service commemorated Serra with his own postage stamp.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11827267\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1900px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11827267\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/slo-MISSION.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1900\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/slo-MISSION.jpg 1900w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/slo-MISSION-800x539.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/slo-MISSION-1020x687.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/slo-MISSION-160x108.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/slo-MISSION-1536x1035.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1900px) 100vw, 1900px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mission San Luis Obispo de Tolosa, a Spanish mission founded in 1772 by Serra in the present-day city of San Luis Obispo. \u003ccite>(The Jon B. Lovelace Collection of California Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In the U.S. Capitol collection of state statues, several states are represented by 21st-century statues of Indigenous people, such as New Mexico (Pueblo leader Po’pay) and Wyoming (Chief Washakie of the Shoshone) — but a bronze figure of Serra has represented California since 1931.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alongside it, the state of Virginia is still represented by a 1909 statue of Confederate general Robert E. Lee.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Serra as Symbol\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Why has Serra in particular — and the monuments erected in his honor — become \u003cem>such\u003c/em> a flashpoint in this moment, as anti-racism campaigners take their fight to the streets?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For Sarris, Serra represents a way of thinking about Indigenous culture — as something not to be understood and preserved, but colonized and assimilated — that has traumatic repercussions today. “Here was a man who represented a culture that felt entitled to dominate another culture,” he says. “The cultural insensitivity that resulted in violence and the death of 90% of the California Indian population is something to be understood, and not cherished.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Compared with the drive against Confederate statues on the East Coast, Sarris just doesn’t see “enough interest or understanding of the violence against California Indians for the larger California general public to say, take down Junípero Serra.” At least, not yet. And for him, that lack of urgency from non-Native people around Serra’s legacy stems from fundamental misunderstandings about California’s Native history and culture.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11824391\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11824391\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/RS43652_GettyImages-1219619841-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/RS43652_GettyImages-1219619841-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/RS43652_GettyImages-1219619841-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/RS43652_GettyImages-1219619841-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/RS43652_GettyImages-1219619841-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A rainbow is projected over the statue of Confederate General Robert Lee on June 12, 2020 in Richmond, Virginia. Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam ordered the removal of the General Lee statue as soon as possible but legal proceedings have temporarily halted those plans. \u003ccite>(Eze Amos/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>For Morning Star Gali, the still-standing Serra statues represent a visual emblem of the wider issue at hand: California’s systemic inaction towards its Native peoples. She notes that June marks one year since Gov. Gavin Newsom \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/19/us/newsom-native-american-apology.html\">delivered an apology\u003c/a> “for the many instances of violence, mistreatment and neglect inflicted upon California Native Americans throughout the state’s history.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But, Gali notes, “an apology is nothing without action” — especially where it concerns vital decisions being made for Indigenous people without their input.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most recently, she says, where is that action regarding the coronavirus relief funds provided by the CARES Act? Funds were dispersed only to Native tribes that are federally recognized, to the exclusion of tribes that have been terminated, disenrolled and disenfranchised. The federal government, Gali notes, still “gets to decide who is and who is not a Native person in California.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the lack of a specific apology from the Catholic Church for Serra’s legacy, Gali sees this same inaction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Until that’s done,” she says, “there is still a gaping wound that needs to be healed.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003ca id=\"removal\">\u003c/a>How Can You Challenge a Statue or Place Name?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>If there’s a statue or place name in your area that you want to officially challenge, how can you do that as a member of the public?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Arianna Antone-Ramirez is a research associate at the California Consortium for Urban Indian Health, and is on the board of the American Indian Cultural Center of San Francisco. Born and raised in the Mission District of San Francisco, she’s a member of the Tohono O’odham Nation in Arizona and was a part of the campaign to remove San Francisco’s Early Days statue. Her key advice for activism in this field? “Let the community lead” — especially if you’re a non-Indigenous ally.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Antone-Ramirez recommends beginning by researching the communities who are “directly affected” by the issue at hand, finding out what they’re already working on, and offering support to their organizers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11827558\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1900px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11827558\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/Arriana.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1900\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/Arriana.jpg 1900w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/Arriana-800x539.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/Arriana-1020x687.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/Arriana-160x108.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/Arriana-1536x1035.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1900px) 100vw, 1900px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Arianna Antone-Ramirez is a member of the Tohono O’odham Nation in Arizona, and was a part of the campaign to remove San Francisco’s Early Days statue. \u003ccite>(Arianna Antone-Ramirez)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>She also advises embarking on your \u003cem>own\u003c/em> bureaucratic research.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Has anything come up in my city council? Wherever you live, have there been any hearings about this? … Where is this issue now? Is it in a committee?” Acquiring this familiarity with civic processes, says Antone-Ramirez, will really help these efforts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And what \u003cem>are\u003c/em> these processes?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The best approach for challenging a statue or place name is “the same as approaching the city government for any other civic inquiry,” says Rebekah Krell, acting director of cultural affairs at the San Francisco Arts Commission – the city body that was involved in the removal of the Early Days statue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The governmental bodies she recommends contacting:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Your District Supervisor\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>The Mayor’s office of your town/city\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>The local Arts Commission\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Your local non-emergency 311 line\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>Krell also advises attending “any number of public meetings” to “pose general public comment.” This, she says, is how member of the public campaigning for the removal of the Early Days monument “got the ball rolling”– “the community came to a [monthly] public Arts Commission meeting” and spoke up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If a group is specifically looking to challenge a monument or public artwork, Krell says that the agency governing these can differ from municipality. It could be an Arts Commission (as in San Francisco), a Parks Department or your city’s Public Works.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“But when all else fails,” she says, “your elected city representative (council member, district supervisor, etc.) office should be able to direct your concern.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The San Francisco Arts Commission has \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13883431/city-to-evaluate-public-monuments-but-community-questions-its-track-record\">announced plans\u003c/a> to now evaluate the the city’s nearly one hundred public monuments and memorials — and whether any of them should be removed. The plans will apparently entail the city examining factors including the story behind the historical figure a work depicts, the artist who made it, the community’s response so far, and the cost of its removal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>The original story incorrectly listed Greg Sarris as the owner of Graton Resort & Casino and has since been corrected.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>A loose network of Facebook groups that took root across the country in April to organize protests over coronavirus stay-at-home orders has become a hub of misinformation and conspiracy theories that have pivoted to a variety of new targets. Their latest: Black Lives Matter and the nationwide protests of racial injustice.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These groups, which now boast a collective audience of more than 1 million members, are still thriving after most states started lifting virus restrictions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And many have expanded their focus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One group transformed itself last month from “Reopen California” to “California Patriots Pro Law & Order,” with recent posts mocking Black Lives Matter or changing the slogan to “White Lives Matter.” Members have used profane slurs to refer to Black people and protesters, calling them “animals,” “racist” and “thugs”— a direct violation of Facebook’s hate speech standards.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Others have become gathering grounds for promoting conspiracy theories about the protests, suggesting protesters were paid to go to demonstrations and that even the death of George Floyd, an unarmed Black man who died in the custody of Minneapolis police, was staged.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An Associated Press review of the most recent posts in 40 of these Facebook groups — most of which were launched by conservative groups or pro-gun activists — found the conversations largely shifted last month to attacking the nationwide protests over the killing of Black men and women after Floyd’s death.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Facebook users in some of these groups post hundreds of times a day in threads often seen by members only and shielded from public view.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Unless Facebook is actively looking for disinformation in those spaces, they will go unnoticed for a long time and they will grow,” said Joan Donovan, the research director at the Harvard Kennedy School’s Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics, and Public Policy. “Over time, people will drag other people into them and they will continue to organize.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Facebook said it is aware of the collection of reopen groups, and is using technology as well as relying on users to identify problematic posts. The company has vowed in the past to look for material that violates its rules in private groups as well as in public places on its site. But the platform has not always been able to deliver on that promise.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shortly after the groups were formed, they were rife with coronavirus misinformation and conspiracy theories, including assertions that masks are “useless,” the U.S. government intends to forcibly vaccinate people and that COVID-19 is a hoax intended to hurt President Donald Trump’s re-election chances this fall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Posts in these private groups are less likely to be scrutinized by Facebook or its independent fact-checkers, said Donovan. Facebook enlists media outlets around the world, including The Associated Press, to fact check claims on its site. Members in these private groups have created an echo chamber and tend to agree with the posts, so are therefore less likely to flag them for Facebook or fact-checkers to review, Donovan added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At least one Facebook group, ReOpen PA, asked its 105,000 members to keep the conversation focused on reopening businesses and schools in Pennsylvania, and implemented rules to forbid posts about the racial justice protests as well as conspiracy theories about the efficacy of masks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But most others have not moderated their pages as closely.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For example, some groups in New Jersey, Texas and Ohio have labeled systemic racism a hoax. A member of the California Facebook group posted a widely debunked flyer that says “White men, women and children, you are the enemy,” which was falsely attributed to Black Lives Matter. Another \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/afs:Content:9096430371\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">falsely claimed\u003c/a> that a Black man was brandishing a gun outside the St. Louis mansion where a white couple confronted protesters with firearms. Dozens of users in several of the groups have pushed an \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/f01f3c405985f4e3477e4e4ac27986e5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">unsubstantiated theory\u003c/a> that liberal billionaire George Soros is paying crowds to attend racial justice protests.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Facebook members in two groups — Wisconsinites Against Excessive Quarantine and Ohioans Against Excessive Quarantine — also regularly refer to protesters as “animals,” “thugs,” or “paid” looters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the Ohio group, one user wrote on May 31: “The focus is shifted from the voice of free people rising up against tyranny … to lawless thugs from a well known racist group causing violence and upheaval of lives.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those two pages are part of a network of groups in Ohio, Wisconsin, Minnesota, New York and Pennsylvania created by conservative activist Ben Dorr, who has for years raised money to lobby on hot-button conservative issues like abortion or gun rights. Their latest cause — pushing for governors to reopen their states — has attracted hundreds of thousands of followers in the private Facebook groups they launched.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Private groups that balloon to that size, with little oversight, are like “creepy basements” where extremist views and misinformation can lurk, said disinformation researcher Nina Jankowicz, a fellow at the nonpartisan Wilson Center, a Washington, D.C., think tank.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s sort of a way that the platforms are enabling some of the worst actors to stay on it,” said Jankowicz. “Rather than being de-platformed — they can organize.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Associated Press technology writer Barbara Ortutay in Oakland, California, contributed.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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Any current employee involved with bigoted activity online will promptly be investigated and held accountable to the fullest extent in my power,\" he said. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An FBI official told NPR that the bureau is in contact with the SJPD and is aware of the investigation into the officers' reported comments on social media. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"If in the course of the local investigation, information comes to light of a potential federal crime, the FBI is prepared to investigate,\" the FBI official said. \u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Allegations in Medium post\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>The allegations against the San Francisco Bay Area officers stem from an anonymous article on the website \u003ca href=\"https://medium.com/@charliepaulsen5/racism-and-hate-behind-the-blue-wall-exposing-secret-law-enforcement-facebook-groups-6cf23a596a98\">Medium\u003c/a>. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The author, identified only as the partner of an active law enforcement officer in the area, detailed how retired and current officers in the San Jose Police Department allegedly use the private group called 10-7ODSJ to \"freely express their true thoughts and ideas.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The name \"10-7ODSJ\" is a reference to the police code for off duty, \u003ca href=\"https://www.mercurynews.com/2020/06/26/san-jose-police-officers-racist-facebook-posts-exposed-by-blogger/\">The Mercury News\u003c/a> reported. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"In closely reading their posts, it is very disturbing to find how much hate, prejudice and racism they harbor,\" the author of the Medium post said. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For example, the article flagged a comment from a current SJPD motor officer reportedly saying that \"Black lives don't really matter.\" \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That same officer allegedly wrote an anti-Muslim comment about a woman who filed a lawsuit against the \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-ventura-county-hijab-lawsuit-20180507-story.html\">Ventura County Sheriff's Office\u003c/a> saying that deputies forced her to remove her hijab while in custody. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Hell, I would have pulled it over her face,\" the officer wrote, according to the Medium article.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A retired officer reportedly added, \"I say re-purpose the hijabs into nooses.\" That officer also posted an offensive image of a fake advertisement for a \"Sharia Barbie,\" with a line saying \"stoning accessories available.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Medium post also alleged that an officer currently assigned to SJPD's training unit posted a message in 2015 \"that racially profiles and stereotypes all Muslims as being terrorists.\" The training unit is responsible for instruction combating race-bias policing, according to the post. \u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Police Union Says 'No Place... for Racists or Bigots'\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>The local police union is taking steps to distance itself from the reported comments in the private group.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There is no place in our police department or our union for racists or bigots or those that enable them by not speaking up,\" Paul Kelly, the president of the San Jose Police Officers' Association, said \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6e8qmIwX95o&feature=emb_err_woyt\">in a video statement\u003c/a>. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He added that the association will provide \"no shelter, no protection\" to any current officers who took part in the Facebook group. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label='Related Coverage' tag='criminal-justice']San Jose Mayor Sam Liccardo is calling for an investigation, and said that if current officers are found to have made such comments, they should be fired. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I demand and expect a full investigation, and further expect that racist, anti-Muslim or menacing comments expressed by any current SJPD Officer will be met with termination,\" Liccardo \u003ca href=\"https://www.sanjoseca.gov/Home/Components/News/News/1507/4959\">said in a statement\u003c/a>. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The mayor recently unveiled a \u003ca href=\"https://medium.com/@SamLiccardo/fulfilling-the-promise-of-the-14th-amendment-our-next-steps-to-enhancing-police-accountability-in-7398bead42ff\">nine-point plan\u003c/a> for enhancing police accountability, which include proposals for making the arbitration process of firing and disciplining officers more transparent, broadening the authority of the independent police auditor in use-of-force allegations against officers and calling for a public audit of police expenditures. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Community activists in San Jose want the changes to go even further. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Raj Jayadev, the co-coordinator of the social justice group Silicon Valley De-Bug, said racism is \"deeply ingrained\" in the police department's culture. 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By evening, the protesters reached the Castro and started a dance party.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Before the incident, speakers at the Pride celebration drew a parallel between the criminalization of being gay and transgender and the recent police violence and protests across the country.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Local activist Norma Gallegos was there and said she feels over the last decade, Pride has been “gentrified, corporatized and commercialized.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“Stonewall was the historical movement in New York, where Marsha P. 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She said \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Pride has historically been anti-capitalist, queer and militant with the issues that have plagued and created barriers for Black, Indigenous, People of Color.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Last year’s San Francisco Pride march also saw police arresting activists from the transgender community, leading to harsh critique from the community. \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfexaminer.com/news/sf-police-chief-apologizes-for-historic-abuse-against-transgender-community/\">SFPD Police Chief Bill Scott later publicly apologized\u003c/a> for decades of “past actions” against the transgender community. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We want to listen to you and want to truly hear you,” Scott said, publicly. “We will atone for our past.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Uniting of Two Cities and Two Prides\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">On Saturday, the Bay Area community passed a pink torch from Oakland to San Francisco in a first ever joint-city Pride event.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Over a dozen people gathered outside Oakland City Hall where mayor Libby Schaaf kicked off the celebration by passing a pink torch to Joe Hawkins, the founder of Oakland Pride and CEO of the Oakland LGBTQ Community Center.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11826569\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11826569\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/Pink-Torch-1-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Oakland mayor Libby Schaaf and Joe Hawkins, founder of Oakland Pride and CEO of the Oakland LGBTQ Community Center, hold up the Pink Torch as they kick off the procession outside Oakland City Hall.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/Pink-Torch-1-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/Pink-Torch-1-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/Pink-Torch-1-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/Pink-Torch-1-1044x783.jpg 1044w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/Pink-Torch-1-632x474.jpg 632w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/Pink-Torch-1-536x402.jpg 536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/Pink-Torch-1.jpg 1160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Oakland mayor Libby Schaaf and Joe Hawkins, founder of Oakland Pride and CEO of the Oakland LGBTQ Community Center, hold up the Pink Torch as they kick off the procession outside Oakland City Hall. \u003ccite>(Julie Chang/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“You are such a leader in our city,” Schaaf told Hawkins, “You create a space of love and joy for our LGBTQI community, our family. And you have been doing that for years, even before you had a physical space, you were creating that space.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Hawkins took the torch from Schaaf and addressed the Black Lives Matter movement.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“Black people in this country were enslaved for longer than we have been free,” Hawkins said. “And Black LGBTQ lives matter, too. We have, for a very long time, been the targets and in between pillars of hate: homophobia from our own community — of Black people — and racism from white queer people and white heterosexual people. Today, this symbolic uniting of the Bay Area is hopefully a step forward,” he added.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Hawkins told KQED that in the past there has been a division between Oakland and San Francisco, but this event would help bring them together at a time when everyone is locked down and sheltering in place. “It brings us all together \u003c/span>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">finally\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, like this has never happened. So we’re very grateful, and we’re so happy to have this pink torch to help carry us into the future,” he said.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Hawkins walked over to Feelmore, a sex toy shop in downtown Oakland, and passed the torch over to Nenna Joiner, owner of the shop.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11826572\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11826572\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/Pink-Torch-4-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Joe Hawkins, founder of Oakland Pride and CEO of the Oakland LGBTQ Community Center, passes off the Pink Torch to Nenna Joiner, owner of sex toy shop Feelmore in downtown Oakland.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/Pink-Torch-4-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/Pink-Torch-4-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/Pink-Torch-4-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/Pink-Torch-4-1044x783.jpg 1044w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/Pink-Torch-4-632x474.jpg 632w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/Pink-Torch-4-536x402.jpg 536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/Pink-Torch-4.jpg 1160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Joe Hawkins, founder of Oakland Pride and CEO of the Oakland LGBTQ Community Center, passes off the pink torch to Nenna Joiner, owner of sex toy shop Feelmore in downtown Oakland. \u003ccite>(Julie Chang/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The pink torch continued its journey as it circled Lake Merritt, with torchbearers passing it from one person to the next at locations significant to the LGBTQ and black community, including the Oakland LGBTQ Community Center, the site of the infamous “BBQ Becky” incident and a historic Black Panthers site.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The torch eventually made its way across the Bay Bridge and was handed off for a final time at Twin Peaks, where it was used to symbolically light an art installation of a massive pink triangle made of LED lights.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/karlmondon/status/1277096289470038018\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">This is the first time the Pink Triangle was made with lights instead of fabric since its debut 25 years ago. The creator of the annual Pink Triangle ritual, Patrick Carney, said the canvas used for the triangle would typically be laid out with the help of hundreds of volunteers, but due to social distancing restrictions amid the pandemic, they wouldn’t be able to do that this year.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Carney teamed up with Illuminate, the group responsible for the dancing lights on the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge known as the Bay Lights, to turn the Triangle into an art installation which features 2,700 hot pink LED lights and covers nearly an acre of ground.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Triangle will stay illuminated until July 10.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The pink triangle was used as a symbol of hate during the Holocaust when gay men were forced to wear it on their chest as an identifier, but organizers say it has been embraced by the gay community as a symbol of empowerment and pride.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Vandalism\u003c/b> \u003cb>strikes Pride\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Just hours before the torch procession took place, Hawkin’s LGBTQ Center was attacked.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11826589\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11826589\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/Oakland-LGBTQ-Center-vandalized-800x800.jpg\" alt=\"Oakland LGBTQ Community Center vandalized. Witnesses say a man approached the building Saturday morning and shattered its windows with a golf club while yelling racist and homophobic comments. The Oakland Police Department is investigating the incident.\" width=\"800\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/Oakland-LGBTQ-Center-vandalized-800x800.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/Oakland-LGBTQ-Center-vandalized-1020x1020.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/Oakland-LGBTQ-Center-vandalized-160x160.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/Oakland-LGBTQ-Center-vandalized-1104x1104.jpg 1104w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/Oakland-LGBTQ-Center-vandalized-912x912.jpg 912w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/Oakland-LGBTQ-Center-vandalized-550x550.jpg 550w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/Oakland-LGBTQ-Center-vandalized-470x470.jpg 470w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/Oakland-LGBTQ-Center-vandalized.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Oakland LGBTQ Community Center vandalized. Witnesses say a man approached the building Saturday morning and shattered its windows with a golf club while yelling racist and homophobic comments. The Oakland Police Department is investigating the incident. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of the Oakland LGBTQ Community Center)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Witnesses say a man approached the building around 10 a.m. Saturday and shattered its windows with a golf club while yelling racist and homophobic comments.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“I was crushed like the glass, but I was also more determined to keep our center open and to encourage people and tell them we are not broken,” Hawkins said.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The center will be up-and-running shortly and plans on opening a LGBTQ health clinic in September.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Oakland Police Department says it’s investigating the incident.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">But, when Pride demonstrators marched from Dolores Park and tried to turn left onto Valencia from 18th Street, a white police van drove south down Valencia Street and parked across it. That lone police van and roughly a half dozen police officers formed a line to try and stop hundreds of marchers from heading up Valencia.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Protesters shouted “quit your job!” and “you’re killing black people.” The officers then tried to leave and inch forward, but could not exit the crowd, which surrounded them. Pride marchers spray painted the van. Officers exited the van again, as demonstrators kicked the van and hit it with their fists. Officers rushed towards them with batons raised and pushed members of the crowd away. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">One marcher spray painted an officer in the face with red paint. Eventually, the van exited the crowd to an alleyway. San Francisco Police Department spokespeople said they were “not aware” of any injuries or arrests, but said “we are aware that bottles were thrown at officers who were at Mission Station” and officers were also “assaulted” with “improvised wooden shields.” \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The march continued towards Market Street. By evening, the protesters reached the Castro and started a dance party.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Before the incident, speakers at the Pride celebration drew a parallel between the criminalization of being gay and transgender and the recent police violence and protests across the country.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Local activist Norma Gallegos was there and said she feels over the last decade, Pride has been “gentrified, corporatized and commercialized.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“Stonewall was the historical movement in New York, where Marsha P. Johnson, the Black trans woman, threw the first rock in the Stonewall Inn,” Gallegos said, “but here in San Francisco, we have Compton’s Cafeteria where it’s also about fighting the police brutality that was happening in the trans community at the time in the late 60s and early 70s.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Gallegos said she wants to see systemic change and Pride return to its roots. She said \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Pride has historically been anti-capitalist, queer and militant with the issues that have plagued and created barriers for Black, Indigenous, People of Color.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Last year’s San Francisco Pride march also saw police arresting activists from the transgender community, leading to harsh critique from the community. \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfexaminer.com/news/sf-police-chief-apologizes-for-historic-abuse-against-transgender-community/\">SFPD Police Chief Bill Scott later publicly apologized\u003c/a> for decades of “past actions” against the transgender community. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We want to listen to you and want to truly hear you,” Scott said, publicly. “We will atone for our past.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Uniting of Two Cities and Two Prides\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">On Saturday, the Bay Area community passed a pink torch from Oakland to San Francisco in a first ever joint-city Pride event.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Over a dozen people gathered outside Oakland City Hall where mayor Libby Schaaf kicked off the celebration by passing a pink torch to Joe Hawkins, the founder of Oakland Pride and CEO of the Oakland LGBTQ Community Center.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11826569\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11826569\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/Pink-Torch-1-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Oakland mayor Libby Schaaf and Joe Hawkins, founder of Oakland Pride and CEO of the Oakland LGBTQ Community Center, hold up the Pink Torch as they kick off the procession outside Oakland City Hall.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/Pink-Torch-1-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/Pink-Torch-1-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/Pink-Torch-1-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/Pink-Torch-1-1044x783.jpg 1044w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/Pink-Torch-1-632x474.jpg 632w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/Pink-Torch-1-536x402.jpg 536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/Pink-Torch-1.jpg 1160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Oakland mayor Libby Schaaf and Joe Hawkins, founder of Oakland Pride and CEO of the Oakland LGBTQ Community Center, hold up the Pink Torch as they kick off the procession outside Oakland City Hall. \u003ccite>(Julie Chang/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“You are such a leader in our city,” Schaaf told Hawkins, “You create a space of love and joy for our LGBTQI community, our family. And you have been doing that for years, even before you had a physical space, you were creating that space.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Hawkins took the torch from Schaaf and addressed the Black Lives Matter movement.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“Black people in this country were enslaved for longer than we have been free,” Hawkins said. “And Black LGBTQ lives matter, too. We have, for a very long time, been the targets and in between pillars of hate: homophobia from our own community — of Black people — and racism from white queer people and white heterosexual people. 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So we’re very grateful, and we’re so happy to have this pink torch to help carry us into the future,” he said.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Hawkins walked over to Feelmore, a sex toy shop in downtown Oakland, and passed the torch over to Nenna Joiner, owner of the shop.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11826572\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11826572\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/Pink-Torch-4-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Joe Hawkins, founder of Oakland Pride and CEO of the Oakland LGBTQ Community Center, passes off the Pink Torch to Nenna Joiner, owner of sex toy shop Feelmore in downtown Oakland.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/Pink-Torch-4-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/Pink-Torch-4-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/Pink-Torch-4-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/Pink-Torch-4-1044x783.jpg 1044w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/Pink-Torch-4-632x474.jpg 632w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/Pink-Torch-4-536x402.jpg 536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/Pink-Torch-4.jpg 1160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Joe Hawkins, founder of Oakland Pride and CEO of the Oakland LGBTQ Community Center, passes off the pink torch to Nenna Joiner, owner of sex toy shop Feelmore in downtown Oakland. \u003ccite>(Julie Chang/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The pink torch continued its journey as it circled Lake Merritt, with torchbearers passing it from one person to the next at locations significant to the LGBTQ and black community, including the Oakland LGBTQ Community Center, the site of the infamous “BBQ Becky” incident and a historic Black Panthers site.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The torch eventually made its way across the Bay Bridge and was handed off for a final time at Twin Peaks, where it was used to symbolically light an art installation of a massive pink triangle made of LED lights.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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Systemic racism in public policy and the private housing market has long made finding a safe, stable and affordable home in the Golden State a more difficult prospect for its roughly 2.2 million Black residents than for white people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The legacy of New Deal-era \u003ca href=\"https://www.urbandisplacement.org/redlining\">redlining\u003c/a> — which deemed Black neighborhoods undesirable for federally-backed mortgages — is demonstrably visible not only where Black Californians live now, but where gentrification and displacement pressures across the state are most acute.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/politics/la-pol-ca-affordable-housing-constitution-20190203-story.html\">Article 34\u003c/a>, a still unrepealed clause in the state Constitution that requires local referendums before lower-income housing can be built in a California city, kept subsidized housing disproportionately utilized by Black and brown residents out of affluent, predominantly white communities for decades.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And while state leaders champion the strides the state has made toward diversity and equality relative to other parts of the country, evidence of overt racial bias in California’s housing market persists, including in its progressive coastal bastions. A home in a Black-majority part of the Bay Area is worth about \u003ca href=\"https://www.brookings.edu/research/devaluation-of-assets-in-black-neighborhoods/\">$164,000 less\u003c/a> than an equivalent home — same size, same quality of school system, same access to parks and other neighborhood amenities — in a neighborhood with very few Black people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When they say real estate is about location, location, location — it’s actually about race,” said Mary M. Lee, former deputy director for the equity-focused research and advocacy group PolicyLink and veteran advocate for fair housing policies in Los Angeles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It isn’t the South, it’s not Cleveland, but historically (Los Angeles) has been segregated,” said Lee. “And California — I like to say people live next to each other, not with each other.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over the past decade, the astronomical rise in California’s rent and home prices have added a new dimension to the housing crisis experienced by generations of Black Californians. Here’s what that looks like.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Over-represented in homeless counts\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Overall, California has a relatively small Black population compared to other states. While non-Hispanic Black residents comprise more than 10% of highly-populated places like New York and Texas, they make up only about 5.5% of Californians, a proportion similar to the Black populations of Kansas or Wisconsin.[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Mary M. Lee, deputy director, PolicyLink\"]‘The public sector, public systems are killing Black people everyday in broad daylight when they don’t house them.’[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But of the more than \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/explainers/californias-homelessness-crisis-explained/\">150,000 Californians\u003c/a> who experience homelessness on any given night, nearly 30% are Black people. Several Bay Area regions, including San Francisco and Marin County, have some of the highest rates of Black homelessness in the country. No major California ethnic group is as over-represented in the state’s homeless count as Black people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-11825555\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/CalMattersChart1-800x628.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"628\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/CalMattersChart1-800x628.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/CalMattersChart1-160x126.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/CalMattersChart1.jpg 989w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cbr>\nWhile the overrepresentation of Black people among the unhoused is a national trend, homeless Black Californians are more likely to be sleeping outside than unhoused Black residents of other states.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The public sector, public systems are killing Black people everyday in broad daylight when they don’t house them,” said Lee.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A constellation of factors contribute to high rates of Black homelessness in California beyond the high cost of living: higher rates of poverty, lack of employment opportunities and systemic disparities in California’s mental health and criminal justice systems.[aside tag=\"housing, homelessness\" label=\"More housing coverage\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But racial disparities are also prevalent in efforts to keep Black Californians off the streets once they’ve been rehoused. \u003ca href=\"https://www.lahsa.org/news?article=514-groundbreaking-report-on-black-people-and-homelessness-released\">An analysis\u003c/a> of Black homelessness in Los Angeles County found that while Black people were rehoused at the same rates as other ethnic groups, they were more likely to return to homelessness than any other demographic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Housing cost burden falls on Black Californians\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California is an extremely expensive state. More than 40% of its households fit the federal definition of “housing cost-burdened,” with rent or mortgage payments eating up more than 30% of residents’ income.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On average, Black Californians see a larger chunk of their paychecks going to housing costs than any of the state’s other major demographic groups. Nearly 50% of Black Californians lived in households that were cost-burdened in 2018; nearly a quarter paid more than 50% of their income towards housing costs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-11825556\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/CalMattersChart2-800x630.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"630\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/CalMattersChart2-800x630.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/CalMattersChart2-160x126.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/CalMattersChart2.jpg 987w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>Black households pushed to suburbs\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When comparing how far apart Black, white and other ethnic groups live from one another, California cities are typically less segregated than their counterparts in the Northeast or Midwest. Most parts of the state have also seen improving rates of residential integration over the past half-century, mirroring a national trend.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But part of the decline in California racial segregation is driven by gentrification and displacement pressures upon Black communities in urban cores.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s not just more affluent, younger, white Californians moving into recently redeveloped downtowns that are paradoxically driving down segregation rates. Rapid accelerations in housing costs over the past few decades have driven many Black renters out of larger coastal cities and into older, formerly predominantly white suburbs. While the Black populations of parts of major cities like Los Angeles and Oakland have declined, far-flung suburbs like Palmdale in Southern California and \u003ca href=\"https://www.urbandisplacement.org/past-projects\">Antioch in the Bay Area\u003c/a> have seen rising numbers of Black families.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“African Americans and to a lesser extent Latinos are moving to suburban areas at the fastest clip we’ve observed since the civil rights era,” said Michael Stoll, professor of public policy at the UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-11825557\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/CalMattersChart3-800x365.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"365\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/CalMattersChart3-800x365.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/CalMattersChart3-160x73.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/CalMattersChart3.jpg 992w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cbr>\nWhile more diverse now than they were in the mid-20th century, these suburbs are not the high-opportunity enclaves associated with high-quality school systems and upward economic mobility. And Stoll stresses that continued patterns of segregation, gentrification and displacement have practical impacts for how white, Black and other ethnic groups view one another.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There are consequences to segregation,” said Stoll. “There are questions around social cohesion, and that can’t be any more important than what we’re observing in the current debates we’re having around racial and social justice. It’s hard to become a socially cohesive place if people are living in different neighborhoods and not being able to communicate and work together around common interests.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Wealth gap starker than income gap\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Income gaps aside, disparities in wealth are even starker — and more consequential.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Wealth gives a cushion if something unexpected happens. If your car breaks down or something happens to your house, you don’t dip into your income, you dip into your savings” said Esi Hutchful, policy analyst at the California Budget and Policy Center. “It’s your wealth that allows you to invest in yourself, in your business, in the next generation.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Reliable wealth data is unfortunately severely lacking at the state level. But results from one financial survey of households in the Los Angeles metro area illustrates just how dramatic the wealth gap is for Black households.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-11825558\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/CalMattersChart4-800x610.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"610\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/CalMattersChart4-800x610.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/CalMattersChart4-160x122.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/CalMattersChart4.jpg 1002w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cbr>\nThe key to wealth accumulation for most U.S. households is owning a home. That’s especially true in California, where skyrocketing home values have transformed homes in formerly middle-class neighborhoods into million-dollar nest eggs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those wealth gains have largely been accrued by non-Black homeowners. While more than 60% of white California households and 58% of Asian California households are homeowners, only 33% of Black households own the home they live in.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As predatory lenders disproportionately targeted Black would-be homeowners across the country, the late 2000’s foreclosure crisis decimated Black homeownership nationally. While homeownership rates have somewhat rebounded for other demographic groups, Black homeownership has flatlined (although \u003ca href=\"http://zillow.mediaroom.com/2020-02-18-Encouraging-Signs-For-Black-Homeownership-Rate-as-it-Rebounds-From-Historic-Lows\">very recent data\u003c/a> suggest some gains).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Lost equity in Black homes\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You can also see signs of systemic racism in the home values for Black households that do own homes\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Homes in majority Black neighborhoods across the country are \u003ca href=\"https://www.brookings.edu/research/devaluation-of-assets-in-black-neighborhoods/\">undervalued\u003c/a> compared to equivalent homes in neighborhoods with few Black residents, controlling for factors like the quality of the local school district and access to neighborhood amenities like parks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The San Francisco Bay Area has the largest equity gap of any major metro area in the country between comparable homes in comparable Black and non-Black neighborhoods: On average, homes in Black-majority neighborhoods are devalued by about $164,000. In the Los Angeles area, homes in Black-majority neighborhoods are devalued by about $70,000.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You have appraisals, you have lending practices, you have real estate agent behavior,” said Andre Perry, researcher at the Brookings Institute. “We clearly see that there is discrimination baked in the practices that come out in the research.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>How the pandemic could exacerbate the housing crisis\u003cbr>\nThe economic fallout from the novel coronavirus pandemic has added a new, pressing dimension to Black Californians’ housing crisis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With Black households already disproportionately more likely to have high rent burdens, tenants’ rights groups fear a wave of evictions from missed rent payments could be coming as expanded unemployment benefits are scheduled to expire next month. In a Census survey conducted at the beginning of June, less than half of Black California renters who responded to the question expressed high confidence they would be able to make next month’s rent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-11825559\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/CalMattersChart5-800x599.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"599\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/CalMattersChart5-800x599.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/CalMattersChart5-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/CalMattersChart5-632x474.jpg 632w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/CalMattersChart5-536x402.jpg 536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/CalMattersChart5.jpg 1004w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cbr>\nLee says the pandemic has laid bare the racial divides the state has long struggled to close.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These systems aren’t broken, this is how they were designed to work,” she said. “We’re catching up to the reality and understanding of how horrible that really is.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/\">CalMatters.org\u003c/a> is a nonprofit, nonpartisan media venture explaining California policies and politics.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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More than 40% of its households fit the federal definition of “housing cost-burdened,” with rent or mortgage payments eating up more than 30% of residents’ income.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On average, Black Californians see a larger chunk of their paychecks going to housing costs than any of the state’s other major demographic groups. Nearly 50% of Black Californians lived in households that were cost-burdened in 2018; nearly a quarter paid more than 50% of their income towards housing costs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-11825556\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/CalMattersChart2-800x630.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"630\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/CalMattersChart2-800x630.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/CalMattersChart2-160x126.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/CalMattersChart2.jpg 987w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>Black households pushed to suburbs\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When comparing how far apart Black, white and other ethnic groups live from one another, California cities are typically less segregated than their counterparts in the Northeast or Midwest. Most parts of the state have also seen improving rates of residential integration over the past half-century, mirroring a national trend.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But part of the decline in California racial segregation is driven by gentrification and displacement pressures upon Black communities in urban cores.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s not just more affluent, younger, white Californians moving into recently redeveloped downtowns that are paradoxically driving down segregation rates. Rapid accelerations in housing costs over the past few decades have driven many Black renters out of larger coastal cities and into older, formerly predominantly white suburbs. While the Black populations of parts of major cities like Los Angeles and Oakland have declined, far-flung suburbs like Palmdale in Southern California and \u003ca href=\"https://www.urbandisplacement.org/past-projects\">Antioch in the Bay Area\u003c/a> have seen rising numbers of Black families.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“African Americans and to a lesser extent Latinos are moving to suburban areas at the fastest clip we’ve observed since the civil rights era,” said Michael Stoll, professor of public policy at the UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-11825557\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/CalMattersChart3-800x365.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"365\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/CalMattersChart3-800x365.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/CalMattersChart3-160x73.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/CalMattersChart3.jpg 992w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cbr>\nWhile more diverse now than they were in the mid-20th century, these suburbs are not the high-opportunity enclaves associated with high-quality school systems and upward economic mobility. And Stoll stresses that continued patterns of segregation, gentrification and displacement have practical impacts for how white, Black and other ethnic groups view one another.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There are consequences to segregation,” said Stoll. “There are questions around social cohesion, and that can’t be any more important than what we’re observing in the current debates we’re having around racial and social justice. It’s hard to become a socially cohesive place if people are living in different neighborhoods and not being able to communicate and work together around common interests.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Wealth gap starker than income gap\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Income gaps aside, disparities in wealth are even starker — and more consequential.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Wealth gives a cushion if something unexpected happens. If your car breaks down or something happens to your house, you don’t dip into your income, you dip into your savings” said Esi Hutchful, policy analyst at the California Budget and Policy Center. “It’s your wealth that allows you to invest in yourself, in your business, in the next generation.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Reliable wealth data is unfortunately severely lacking at the state level. But results from one financial survey of households in the Los Angeles metro area illustrates just how dramatic the wealth gap is for Black households.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-11825558\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/CalMattersChart4-800x610.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"610\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/CalMattersChart4-800x610.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/CalMattersChart4-160x122.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/CalMattersChart4.jpg 1002w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cbr>\nThe key to wealth accumulation for most U.S. households is owning a home. That’s especially true in California, where skyrocketing home values have transformed homes in formerly middle-class neighborhoods into million-dollar nest eggs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those wealth gains have largely been accrued by non-Black homeowners. While more than 60% of white California households and 58% of Asian California households are homeowners, only 33% of Black households own the home they live in.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As predatory lenders disproportionately targeted Black would-be homeowners across the country, the late 2000’s foreclosure crisis decimated Black homeownership nationally. While homeownership rates have somewhat rebounded for other demographic groups, Black homeownership has flatlined (although \u003ca href=\"http://zillow.mediaroom.com/2020-02-18-Encouraging-Signs-For-Black-Homeownership-Rate-as-it-Rebounds-From-Historic-Lows\">very recent data\u003c/a> suggest some gains).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Lost equity in Black homes\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You can also see signs of systemic racism in the home values for Black households that do own homes\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Homes in majority Black neighborhoods across the country are \u003ca href=\"https://www.brookings.edu/research/devaluation-of-assets-in-black-neighborhoods/\">undervalued\u003c/a> compared to equivalent homes in neighborhoods with few Black residents, controlling for factors like the quality of the local school district and access to neighborhood amenities like parks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The San Francisco Bay Area has the largest equity gap of any major metro area in the country between comparable homes in comparable Black and non-Black neighborhoods: On average, homes in Black-majority neighborhoods are devalued by about $164,000. In the Los Angeles area, homes in Black-majority neighborhoods are devalued by about $70,000.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You have appraisals, you have lending practices, you have real estate agent behavior,” said Andre Perry, researcher at the Brookings Institute. “We clearly see that there is discrimination baked in the practices that come out in the research.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>How the pandemic could exacerbate the housing crisis\u003cbr>\nThe economic fallout from the novel coronavirus pandemic has added a new, pressing dimension to Black Californians’ housing crisis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With Black households already disproportionately more likely to have high rent burdens, tenants’ rights groups fear a wave of evictions from missed rent payments could be coming as expanded unemployment benefits are scheduled to expire next month. In a Census survey conducted at the beginning of June, less than half of Black California renters who responded to the question expressed high confidence they would be able to make next month’s rent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-11825559\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/CalMattersChart5-800x599.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"599\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/CalMattersChart5-800x599.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/CalMattersChart5-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/CalMattersChart5-632x474.jpg 632w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/CalMattersChart5-536x402.jpg 536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/CalMattersChart5.jpg 1004w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cbr>\nLee says the pandemic has laid bare the racial divides the state has long struggled to close.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These systems aren’t broken, this is how they were designed to work,” she said. “We’re catching up to the reality and understanding of how horrible that really is.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Many people consider San Francisco-based Pinterest one of the friendlier social media platforms. That, at least, is what initially drew former public policy and social impact manager Ifeoma Ozoma to Pinterest in July of 2018 from her previous job at Facebook\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I thought this is a company that believes in diversity, or at least says it does,” she said. But less than a year later, Ozoma raised concerns about being underpaid for the level of work she was performing at the company.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I wasn’t being paid fairly, and according to the company’s own chart, while I was still the public face of the all of the work that was being used to prop the company up as a responsible tech company in a sea of irresponsible ones,” Ozoma said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In recent weeks, companies across America have gone all out declaring their corporate allyship with Black Lives Matter. Silicon Valley companies have done the same, but that’s generated public backlash from current and former Black employees. None became more viral than Ozoma’s tweet thread earlier this week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/IfeomaOzoma/status/1272546213322080258?s=20\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Ozoma was still working for Pinterest, she said she led a number of initiatives she felt really good about, like taking down \u003ca href=\"https://newsroom.pinterest.com/en/post/bringing-authoritative-vaccine-results-to-pinterest-search\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">misinformation about vaccines\u003c/a> on Pinterest. She also got the platform to end its practices promoting \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/05/style/plantation-weddings-pinterest-knot-zola.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">slave plantations as wedding venues\u003c/a> — although she took heat in her performance review later and was told it was because she hadn’t made the case for not ending the practice.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I should have come up with the pros for promoting slave plantations. Like, to this day, I think about that, and the fact that it was put in writing — in a performance review that then impacted my pay,” Ozoma said. “Even though externally, the company really took advantage of the press that came with that decision.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After going in circles with her manager, his manager and HR for five months, Ozoma finally hired a lawyer. The office atmosphere was already charged when a white male engineer at the company decided to share her personal information with an online group known for “doxxing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My cell phone number, my full name, my photo, my email was shared all over the Internet,” Ozoma said. “It was on YouTube, Facebook, Instagram, Reddit, the ‘chans,’ so 4chan and 8chan.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ozoma said the engineer was fired a week later but, by then, she was traumatized — and so was another Black colleague on her team she’d brought in to Pinterest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11824893\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1600px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11824893\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/NewsroomPost-Header-200602_0.jpg\" alt=\"On June 2, 2020, Pinterest CEO Ben Silbermann publicly pledged to take a host of steps to prove the company's pronouncement that "Black Lives Matter."\" width=\"1600\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/NewsroomPost-Header-200602_0.jpg 1600w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/NewsroomPost-Header-200602_0-160x80.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/NewsroomPost-Header-200602_0-800x400.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/NewsroomPost-Header-200602_0-1020x510.jpg 1020w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1600px) 100vw, 1600px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">On June 2, 2020, Pinterest CEO Ben Silbermann \u003ca href=\"https://newsroom.pinterest.com/en/post/listening-and-acting\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">publicly pledged\u003c/a> to take a host of steps to prove the company’s pronouncement that “Black Lives Matter.” \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Pinterest)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Our Black lives were treated like they didn’t matter,” said Aerica Shimizu Banks, who left Google for Pinterest to head its office in Washington D.C. Banks said she hired Ozoma’s lawyer after her own struggles with their manager and HR.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Interacting with members of Congress; traveling around the country speaking on panels and events; representing the company — and yet the only expenses that I accrued that were challenged, continuously, were expenses dedicated to Black organizations and Black businesses I had partnered with,” Banks said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She’s also since left the company, and like Ozoma, also tweeted her displeasure with Pinterest engaging in “performative allyship.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/erikashimizu/status/1272547227177713664?s=20\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Asked for comment, Pinterest offered a statement: “We took these issues seriously and conducted a thorough investigation when they were raised, and we’re confident both employees were treated fairly.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thirteen percent of the U.S. population is Black. But according to the company’s annual \u003ca href=\"https://newsroom.pinterest.com/en/post/diversity-report-2020\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">diversity report\u003c/a>, Black people made up roughly 4 percent of its total workforce last year. That puts Pinterest in line with many other tech companies that report their numbers (some, like \u003ca href=\"https://www.theverge.com/2020/6/11/21288491/snap-ceo-spiegel-diversity-report-numbers-release-publicly\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Snap\u003c/a>, don’t) in an industry long dominated by white and Asian males.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Consider the most recent publicly available company data from these locally headquartered companies: 9 percent at \u003ca href=\"https://www.apple.com/diversity/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Apple\u003c/a>, 3.8 percent at \u003ca href=\"https://diversity.fb.com/read-report/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Facebook\u003c/a>, 5.5 percent at \u003ca href=\"https://kstatic.googleusercontent.com/files/25badfc6b6d1b33f3b87372ff7545d79261520d821e6ee9a82c4ab2de42a01216be2156bc5a60ae3337ffe7176d90b8b2b3000891ac6e516a650ecebf0e3f866\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Google\u003c/a>, 3.7 percent at \u003ca href=\"https://www.oracle.com/corporate/careers/culture/diversity.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Oracle\u003c/a>, 4.4 percent at \u003ca href=\"https://slackhq.com/diversity-at-slack-2020\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Slack\u003c/a>, 5.7 percent at \u003ca href=\"https://blog.twitter.com/en_us/topics/company/2019/inclusion-and-diversity-report-december-2019.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Twitter\u003c/a>. Isolate diversity numbers for the engineering or tech departments alone, or leadership, and the numbers are invariably even smaller.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11824924\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1294px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11824924\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/Screen-Shot-2020-06-17-at-3.18.58-PM.png\" alt=\"The most recent diversity report for Oracle, the largest tech employer in San Mateo County, reflects industry trends.\" width=\"1294\" height=\"858\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/Screen-Shot-2020-06-17-at-3.18.58-PM.png 1294w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/Screen-Shot-2020-06-17-at-3.18.58-PM-160x106.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/Screen-Shot-2020-06-17-at-3.18.58-PM-800x530.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/Screen-Shot-2020-06-17-at-3.18.58-PM-1020x676.png 1020w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1294px) 100vw, 1294px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The most recent diversity report for Oracle, the largest tech employer in San Mateo County, reflects industry trends. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Oracle)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>So should Silicon Valley companies even be issuing statements of support for racial justice? Yes, says Sarah Kunst, managing director of \u003ca href=\"https://www.cleocap.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Cleo Capital\u003c/a>, an early stage venture capital firm in San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You know, it would be very awkward in this context if you were telling me my life didn’t matter. I think that is a bare minimum. It is far from all anyone should be doing,” said Kunst (who was recently on KQED’s board for a year).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Google, Facebook and other companies have blamed their lack of Black employees on the “pipeline” problem — arguing there aren’t enough qualified people to hire, especially in their technical departments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size='medium' align='right' citation=\"Sarah Kunst, Cleo Capital\"]‘It would be very awkward in this context if you were telling me my life didn’t matter. I think that is a bare minimum. It is far from all anyone should be doing.’[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But many Silicon Valley watchers disagree it’s primarily a pipeline problem. Kunst, for instance, argued she’s observed a number of hiring managers fixated on a short list of Ivy League universities, unable to broaden their definition of “qualified.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She added it’s important to get rid of individuals who make the corporate culture toxic for Black employees and drive them away.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This feels like a really good time to really dig deep and do an overhaul so that you create a culture that everyone loves and everyone is welcome in,” Kunst said, noting many Silicon Valley executives are already rethinking their corporate culture during the coronavirus pandemic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A few years ago, companies, people, couldn’t even say the word ‘race.’ Like, not a particular race, just the word ‘race,'” said Y-Vonne Hutchinson of \u003ca href=\"https://www.thereadyset.co\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">ReadySet\u003c/a>, a diversity, equity and inclusion consulting firm that works with a number of Silicon Valley companies. “The fact that the conversation has shifted so far in such a short period of time is encouraging. At the same time, it takes more than statements. What is it really like inside of your organization? Can Black people succeed?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size='medium' align='left' citation=\"Y-Vonne Hutchinson, ReadySet\"]‘The fact that the conversation has shifted so far in such a short period of time is encouraging. At the same time, it takes more than statements. What is it really like inside of your organization? Can Black people succeed?’[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hutchinson added, “Because for a lot of these companies, we do see investments in recruiting. We do see some people coming through the door. Those people don’t advance. Those people leave, and a lot of times that’s because they’re experiencing microaggressions. They’re experiencing racism at work, and there’s no accountability for it.”.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Karla Monterroso, CEO of the diversity-focused nonprofit \u003ca href=\"http://www.code2040.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Code 2040\u003c/a>, said companies need to focus less on job fairs and turn instead to the internal work needed to become welcoming places for more Black and Latinx employees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For the longest time, we have focused on the wrong things,” said Monterroso. “You will not get the full benefit of their thoughts and innovation because it’s more dangerous for them to swim against the current. Advocacy for people of color, especially Black people, will look like insubordination to many people. Until we examine that, it’s going to have a disproportionate impact on our workplace.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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In other words, he wasn’t looking to catch a ‘Karen.’\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>(That’s a term often used to describe white women, specifically, who call police to punish Black people and people of color generally while they’re enjoying everyday activities — like \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13832886/were-still-here-bbqn-while-black-draws-out-oaklanders-in-force\">barbecuing\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11676866/permit-patty-goes-viral-after-threatening-to-call-cops-on-girl-selling-water-in-san-francisco\">running a lemonade stand\u003c/a> or \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2020/05/26/862838384/an-avid-birder-talks-about-a-conflict-in-central-park-he-taped-and-went-viral\">bird-watching\u003c/a>.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But when a woman named Lisa Alexander and her husband \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/Feud-over-Black-Lives-Matter-stencil-erupts-in-15338715.php\">accused Juanillo of a crime\u003c/a> for stenciling the words Black Lives Matter with chalk on the retaining wall outside his own home in San Francisco’s Pacific Heights, he was ready with his cellphone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Respectfully,” Alexander can be seen telling Juanillo in his video, “absolutely your [Black Lives Matter] signs and everything, that’s good, but this is not the way to do it. It’s private property.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yes it was: Juanillo’s property. But, he maintains, being a man of color, Alexander likely assumed he did not live in the expensive home they were standing in front of. She called the police.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/jaimetoons/status/1271300265170186240?s=19\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Juanillo said in the predominantly wealthy, predominantly white Pacific Heights neighborhood, “It’s not unusual at all for me to get a look like, ‘Do you belong here?’” Juanillo, a Filipino man, has lived with his husband in Pacific Heights for 18 years where he runs a small dog walking business called Pack Heights.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The video interaction Juanillo recorded with Alexander has since gone viral, and been viewed more than 13 million times. The beauty subscription service Birchbox has cut ties with Alexander’s skincare company LAFACE, and \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/LuzPenaABC7/status/1272258758207397888?s=19\">she has since issued a public apology, \u003c/a>saying “I should have minded my own business.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/LuzPenaABC7/status/1272258758207397888?s=19\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I did not realize at the time my actions were racist and have learned a painful lesson,” Alexander wrote. Her husband, \u003ca href=\"https://www.ktvu.com/news/man-fired-for-confrontation-with-sf-neighbor-over-black-lives-matter-message\">identified by KTVU as Robert Larkins\u003c/a>, was \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/RaymondJames/status/1272479037642899457?s=20\">fired from financial firm Raymond James\u003c/a> early Monday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>KQED caught up with Juanillo and asked him to break down, in his own words, how he mentally prepared for the fraught interaction: one that’s at the forefront of conversations on race, police and freedom of speech in the U.S. right now.\u003cbr>\n[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Jaime Juanillo on Handling (and Filming) a ‘Karen’\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Realizing He Was Right\u003c/b>\u003cbr>\nHow did Juanillo maintain his composure throughout the entire “frustrating” experience? He said he knew he had a right to be there — but more than that, he immediately suspected the intentions of Alexander and Larkins had more to do with race than with the chalk itself.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Lisa and Robert knew it was chalk art, and that it was going to be washed away in the first rain,” Juanillo said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So if the chalk wasn’t their problem, he believed their problem must have been in the Black Lives Matter message itself. “And once I knew that,” he said, “I can act how I needed to act. It was simple after that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Juanillo added, “They’re wrong. And they rode that racial bias all the way off a cliff.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Knowing the Power of Video\u003c/b>\u003cbr>\nFrom a chilling eye-witness view of George Floyd’s killing at the hands of Minneapolis police and Eric Garner’s killing by New York police, to a New York woman’s dangerous promise to falsely claim a Black man was threatening her in a confrontation in Central Park, video has provided evidence of how racism pervades the lives of Black Americans and other people of color.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For Juanillo outside his own home in San Francisco, it was no different. He argued that showing the world the every day, more subtle racist conflicts can prove to white people that they even exist.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If enough people see incidents like this, then maybe people will actually think about it and change their behavior,” Juanillo said. And, he added, contrary to critiques he received on Twitter, arguing would \u003cem>not\u003c/em> have helped.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Do you really think they’re going to believe me if I point out a $10 million house and say I live there?” Juanillo said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Knowledge Beats Ignorance\u003c/b>\u003cbr>\n“She kind of said this very clearly, placating, condescending, speaking-to-a-fifth-grader tone. And that’s what I responded to,” Juanillo said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But this is his home city, his home turf. He knew he had a right to be here.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Juanillo is originally from the Philippines and has lived in San Francisco since childhood, attending St. Ignatius College Preparatory High School.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He was armed with more knowledge, too: He knew he had lived in that Pacific Heights house for 18 years. Juanillo and his husband had even been married in that backyard. He knew his neighbors “all recognize and love me.” And he even knew the police officers who eventually pulled up to respond to Alexander’s phone call.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“So the police come up the hill and they make a big show of pulling their patrol car into my driveway,” Juanillo said. “I recognize the police officer and he recognizes me. And I yell out to him, I’m like, ‘are you responding to a Black Lives Matter call?’ And I’m like, I did that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Juanillo points to his chalk stencil. “I’m all proud of it and stuff. And the police officer goes, ‘Oh, hey, you live here!’” He recalled how the officer calmly — cheerfully, even — said, “‘Great stenciling work!’” before driving off. No request for ID. No face to the concrete. Not even a solitary siren shriek.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Juanillo had in fact spoken to many neighborhood cops outside his home after an emergency at his neighbor’s house last year. “Lisa didn’t know that about me. She didn’t know that calling the police would probably result in a whole lot of nothing,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But that doesn’t erase the gravity of what she was \u003cem>trying\u003c/em> to do, he said. “You can presume that she knew by calling the police that I could possibly die. She was OK with that,” Juanillo said. “Even knowing that I was just working with chalk, she’s willing to call men with guns.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Extending the Olive Branch \u003c/b>\u003cbr>\nAfter all was said and done, Juanillo went back to his home, stood at his living room window, and knocked on the glass loudly enough to grab the attention of Lisa Alexander and her companion, Robert.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He was ready to accept their apology and not post the video that went viral, Saturday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>No such luck.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The look on their faces was total mortification,” Juanillo said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/birchbox/status/1271846464268972032?s=19\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They then ran — down, down, down the hill toward the Marina District. Juanillo went ahead and posted the video of their earlier interaction to Twitter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If they had come up to my door and they had apologized, I would have accepted it, not posted this. And they could have kept their businesses and lives intact,” Juanillo said. “It was all up to them: Action after action after action.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Pushing for Progress\u003cbr>\n\u003c/strong>Juanillo said that despite the actions of the two people he recorded Saturday, he still believes his neighborhood has moral fiber.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After taking heat for stenciling Black Lives Matter on his own retaining wall, Juanillo said, “I can tell you from my Nextdoor and Facebook responses my neighbors will start doing the same next week.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I might have been the first,” he said, “but I’m not going to be the last.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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