{"id":23127,"date":"2020-08-03T08:56:02","date_gmt":"2020-08-03T12:56:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=23127"},"modified":"2020-08-03T09:06:20","modified_gmt":"2020-08-03T13:06:20","slug":"this-communist-crisis-actor-and-her-dreadful-performance-represent-the-very-height-of-cultural-marxism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=23127","title":{"rendered":"This Communist Crisis Actor and Her Dreadful Performances Represent the Very Height of Cultural Marxism"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>AOC Calls Statue of Priest Who Ministered to Leper Colony an Example of \u2018White Supremacist Culture\u2019<\/h1>\n<p><!--more--><div id=\"attachment_23131\" style=\"width: 797px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-23131\" src=\"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Screen-Shot-2020-08-03-at-8.56.41-AM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"787\" height=\"425\" class=\"size-full wp-image-23131\" srcset=\"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Screen-Shot-2020-08-03-at-8.56.41-AM.png 787w, http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Screen-Shot-2020-08-03-at-8.56.41-AM-300x162.png 300w, http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Screen-Shot-2020-08-03-at-8.56.41-AM-768x415.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 787px) 100vw, 787px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-23131\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D., N.Y.) in Queens, N.Y., February 22, 2020 (Andrew Kelly\/Reuters)<\/p><\/div><\/p>\n<p>By ZACHARY EVANS<br \/>\nNational Review<\/p>\n<p>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 \u201cwhite supremacist culture.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<div class=\"twitter-tweet twitter-tweet-rendered\"><iframe id=\"twitter-widget-0\" class=\"\" title=\"Twitter Tweet\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/embed\/index.html?dnt=true&amp;embedId=twitter-widget-0&amp;frame=false&amp;hideCard=false&amp;hideThread=false&amp;id=1289216440088662016&amp;lang=en&amp;origin=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.nationalreview.com%2Fnews%2Faoc-calls-statue-of-priest-who-ministered-to-leper-colony-an-example-of-white-supremacist-culture%2F&amp;theme=light&amp;widgetsVersion=223fc1c4%3A1596143124634&amp;width=500px\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-tweet-id=\"1289216440088662016\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s not Queen Lili\u2019uokalani\u2026the only Queen Regnant of Hawaii, who is immortalized and whose story is told. It is Father Damien,\u201d Ocasio-Cortez wrote in a Facebook story in which she lamented the absence of statues of female figures in the Capitol. \u201cThis is what patriarchy and white supremacist culture looks like!\u201d In addition to Father Damien, the Capitol houses a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.aoc.gov\/explore-capitol-campus\/art\/kamehameha-i\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">statue of King Kamehameha I<\/a>, who united the Hawaiian islands under one kingdom by 1810.<\/p>\n<p>While still a princess, Lili\u2019uokalani visited Father Damien at the colony to present him with honors from the Hawaiian royal government. In 2009, then-governor of Hawaii Linda Lingle\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/hawaiifreepress.com\/Main\/ArticlesMain\/tabid\/56\/articleType\/ArticleView\/articleId\/1205\/St-Damien-Day-Hawaii-October-11.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">proclaimed<\/a>\u00a0October 11 Saint Damien Day.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn Hawai\u2018i, Damien remains a spiritual hero and an icon of love, compassion, courage, humility and humanitarian service,\u201d Lingle said at the time.<\/p>\n<p>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,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/news\/frederick-douglass-statue-in-rochester-vandalized-on-168th-anniversary-of-famous-speech-he-gave-there\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Frederick Douglass<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>___<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/news\/aoc-calls-statue-of-priest-who-ministered-to-leper-colony-an-example-of-white-supremacist-culture\/\">https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/news\/aoc-calls-statue-of-priest-who-ministered-to-leper-colony-an-example-of-white-supremacist-culture\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AOC Calls Statue of Priest Who Ministered to Leper Colony an Example of \u2018White Supremacist Culture\u2019<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23127","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23127","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23127"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23127\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}