“This is a simple fix. Leave the indigenous land sacred and piss on the white corpses.”
A St. Paul, Minnesota, school board member has been slammed online after she said dogs should urinate in Christian cemeteries rather than on Indigenous land. In the post, Chauntyll Allen wrote that dogs should "leave indigenous land sacred and piss on the white corpses" instead.
“I don't get why we don't just make dog parks at White Christian cemeteries if white Christians are ok with it? This is a simple fix. Leave the indigenous land sacred and piss on the white corpses,” Allen wrote in a post to Facebook, per Alpha News.
Allen serves as a clerk for the St. Paul Public Schools Board of Education. Her comments came in the context of an ongoing dispute over the future of Minneapolis' Minnehaha Off-Leash Dog Park. The June 21 post appeared on the "We Love Our Dog Park: Minnehaha" Facebook page.
The park board's decision to close stems from concerns that the site may be part of the Mni Owe Sni (Coldwater Spring) Traditional Cultural Place, which holds deep spiritual significance for Dakota tribes. Some claim that the site has unmarked graves connected to the US-Dakota War of 1862.
At the same time, Allen has been charged in connection with the anti-ICE storming of Cities Church in St. Paul, during which she and a group of protesters disrupted a worship service.
Allen, who heads Black Lives Matter Twin Cities, previously told TMZ that ICE was "terrorizing our women and our children" and described the shooting death of 37-year-old Renee Nicole Good by an ICE officer as "the most graphic murder."
Regarding the church's pastor, David Easterwood, and his alleged connections to ICE, she said, "And then we have the head of this whole operation standing in a pulpit preaching to a congregation every Sunday morning. And that was really just not OK for us."
Reflecting on the decision to storm the church, Allen said, "I believe that's what needed to be done to get the message across. I mean my mother's a pastor and so I grew up in Christianity, I grew up in the church. And one of the things I remember about Jesus Christ himself is that when things weren't going right in the church, he went in and he flipped tables."
The St. Paul Board of Education said in response to the post from Allen, “The district has been made aware of this social media post and does not have further comment.”
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