The Pope is planning to make a saint out of the racist criminal who was the intellectual architect for the founding of the forced labor camps known as the California Missions. Junipero Serra has more in common with the Devil than with anything saintly. He founded the forced labor plantations, the prisons, the forced Christianity centers, the death camps, the centers for the rape of women and children. He stole the land of the Nican Tlaca (Indigenous) people of California and left them as slaves to do the labor for the Catholic priests. He set in motion the mechanisms that would culturally castrate our people, that would rape our women and children, that would destroy our humanity, that would leave us impoverished. He set up the mechanism that killed 90 to 95% of the population of our people in all 21 missions of California. This was a holocaust for our people. It was a land theft of some of the richest lands in the western part of this continent. He was no saint. He was a devil. Look at the end result of his evil deeds, not at the pretty words that have been used by apologists and white supremacists, words that try to cover up the killings, rapes, thefts, genocide, and the holocaust of our people in California. When Archbishop Gomez of Los Angeles found out about the pedophile files of the church, he wrote: "I find these files to be brutal and painful reading. The behavior described in these files is terribly sad and evil. There is no excuse, no explaining away what happened to these children. The priests involved had the duty to be their spiritual fathers and they failed. We need to acknowledge that terrible failure today." The same standards and criteria should apply to Junipero Serra. There was nothing saintly about this racist genocidal evil man. We will not rest until the sacrilege of making of Juipero Serra a saint has been rescinded.

• published: 27 Jan 2015
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