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AOC Targets Statue of Missionary Who Sacrificed His Life to Help Lepers in Hawaii

August 3, 2020 by Staff

(CBN News) Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) is towing the party line when it comes to statues of historical figures. Her latest target is a Catholic saint who sacrificed his life to help lepers in Hawaii.

She believes Father Damien is a symbol of “patriarchy and white supremacist culture.”

“Even when we select figures to tell the stories of colonized places, it is the colonizers and settlers whose stories are told — and virtually no one else,” she wrote in an Instagram post. “Check out Hawaii’s statue.”

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