Groups gather to spiritually cleanse the downtown site of the controversial statue, which was removed this past spring.
Drivers stopped near Julian Street and Highway 87 in downtown San Jose on Friday morning may have wondered what was happening on the concrete island near the ramps. Were the 50 or so people there gathered in protest or celebration? A little bit of both, actually.
San Jose City Council members Omar Torres, left, and Peter Ortiz watch a Muwekma Ohlone cleansing ceremony at the former site of a statue of Thomas Fallon, an early San Jose mayor, raising the U.S. flag in downtown San Jose on Friday, Aug. 4, 2023. A contingent of people against the statue’s removal have argued it simply represented a moment in the city’s history and did not glorify colonization . Others — including myself, a San Jose native of mostly Mexican descent — weren’t offended by the statue but thought commissioning it without community input was wrong. And I’m willing to bet most of San Jose’s nearly 1 million residents rarely — if ever — noticed it.
But some folks, like Kathy Chavez Napoli have been actively opposing the statue since its inception. Chavez Napoli ran for San Jose mayor in 1994 and 1998 and is now a member of the Gavilan Community College District board of trustees. She was there Friday, too, and reminded the crowd that the statue was never destroyed . That was her recommendation, but she doesn’t think it should have been hidden away, either.
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