for his release and one young lady filmed the police violence. She filmed 8 minutes and 46 seconds as Floyd’s life was taken. Massive protests took place throughout the world. The House and Senate have competing bills to stop chokeholds, excessive use of deadly force and ensure police accountability. America has subjected African Americans to racism, KKK terrorism, Jim Crow segregation, lynching, massacres and street violence. We stand with our African American brothers and sisters in the fight against systemic racism. AROUND THE NATION, PROTESTORS OF ALL RACES PULLED DOWN CONFEDERATE AND COLONIALIST STATUES General Robert E. Lee is gone from Richmond. So too Stonewall Jackson. The Confederate Flag is gone from Mississippi’s state flag and no longer flies over the Mississippi Statehouse. White Americans supported equal rights for African Americans. At least three statutes of Columbus were torn down. The State of California announced that it would take down its Columbus statue, and on California State Capitol grounds the statute of Father Juniper Serra, who set up the mission system that enslaved California Indians and caused so much suffering, was torn down. California State Legislator James Ramos, former Chairman, San Manuel Band of Mission Indians, asked State Legislative Leaders for a study by California Natives and historians before the statue of Father Serra is replaced. Assemblyman Ramos explained: "California's Native Americans suffered forced assimilation and servitude that included erosion of language, culture, and religion, as well as acts of violence and abuse under the mission system as founded by Serra.”
Photo Description: California Indian Activists singing after the statue of Father Serra was pulled down.
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