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Sometimes, it seems like the whole world is a high school and we’re all just trying to stay in style.
I mean that, not regarding fashion, but activities and ideas.
One item rising in popularity: the socially-aware “land acknowledgement.”
Last month, Cornell University joined the current craze.
As stated by The Cornell Daily Sun, at CU’s Spring 2021 commencement ceremony, announcers read a statement recognizing “the university’s place on the traditional homeland of the Gayogo̱ hó꞉nǫ’ (pronounced Guy-yo-KO-no), or Cayuga Nation.”
Here’s the official acknowledgement, as laid out on the institution’s website:
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Another School Falls to Woke Culture by Erasing Its Catholic History
Prompted by the 2020 Black Lives Matter protests and related demonstrations, Erica Renfree, Junipero Serra High School principal, called St. Junipero Serra a colonialist and a racist. Renfree and the San Diego Unified School District board of trustees changed the school’s name to Canyon Hills High School/Mat Kwatup KunKun. Pictured: This bronze statue of Father Junipero Serra was removed from the front of Ventura City Hall in June 2020. (Photo: Al Seib/Los Angeles Times/Getty Images)
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One school district in the Bay Area has enforced mandatory, critical race theory-based “ethnic studies” lessons beginning in preschool. In another district, a San Diego high school principal and school board skirted the law in their rush to erase California history and the legacy of a Catholic saint after whom the high school was named, deeming St. Junipero Serra to be a colonialist with a racist past.
is the executive director at MANA de San Diego. She lives in University Heights.
“History is written by the victors” is a quote mistakenly attributed to Winston Churchill. As a critical thinker, I’m well aware that history is rewritten all the time. I recently read an article in Time magazine about the Alamo story needing to be corrected. I grew up in Mexico, I know a different story about the Alamo. I learned that Mexico had the right to fight for its territory. Because I went to school in Mexico, I know that parts of California, Texas, Arizona, New Mexico, Utah, Colorado and even Wyoming were at one time Mexican territory. Latinos rightly proclaim, “We didn’t cross the border, the border crossed us.” Some in the U.S. may be surprised to know that the U.S was the aggressor in the Mexican-American War that ended in 1848. The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo included provisions protecting the property and civil rights of Mexicans living within the new boundaries of the United