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   From: daily.mexican@gazette.com   
      
   Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D., N.Y.) singled out a   
   statue of Father Damien, a Catholic priest who ministered to a   
   Hawaiian leper colony, as an example of “white supremacist   
   culture.”   
      
   Father Damien, born Jozef de Veuster in Belgium, arrived in   
   Hawaii in 1864 when the islands were an independent kingdom. The   
   priest conducted missionary work on the islands and for the last   
   16 years of his life ministered to a leper colony, until he died   
   after contracting leprosy himself. A statue of Father Damien   
   stands in the U.S. Capitol.   
      
   “It’s not Queen Lili’uokalani…the only Queen Regnant of Hawaii,   
   who is immortalized and whose story is told. It is Father   
   Damien,” Ocasio-Cortez wrote in a Facebook story in which she   
   lamented the absence of statues of female figures in the   
   Capitol. “This is what patriarchy and white supremacist culture   
   looks like!” In addition to Father Damien, the Capitol houses a   
   statue of King Kamehameha I, who united the Hawaiian islands   
   under one kingdom by 1810.   
      
   While still a princess, Lili’uokalani visited Father Damien at   
   the colony to present him with honors from the Hawaiian royal   
   government. In 2009, then-governor of Hawaii Linda Lingle   
   proclaimed October 11 Saint Damien Day.   
      
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   “In Hawai‘i, Damien remains a spiritual hero and an icon of   
   love, compassion, courage, humility and humanitarian service,”   
   Lingle said at the time.   
      
   The U.S. has seen a series of attempts to remove statues   
   considered offensive following the death of George Floyd, an   
   African American man killed during his arrest by Minneapolis   
   police officers. These statues have included Confederate leaders   
   such as Robert E. Lee, while other statues that have been   
   vandalized include likenesses of Christopher Columbus, Ulysses   
   S. Grant, and in one case, Frederick Douglass.   
      
   https://www.nationalreview.com/news/aoc-calls-statue-of-priest-   
   who-ministered-to-leper-colony-an-example-of-white-supremacist-   
   culture/   
      
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