500 years of Resistance Mural
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Arriving at the intersection with Florida Street, you find yourself surrounded on all sides by street art. Feel free to observe them all up close if you wish, but I’ll focus only on the one painted on Saint Peter’s Church. It’s titled “500 Years of Resistance.” This immense mural painted by Salvadoran artist Isaias Mata is his gift to the Latin American immigrant community of the district. It tells us the 500 years of history of the different indigenous people of the Americas. In 1992, Father Isaac, who was then the parish priest, commissioned this painting with the idea of providing a positive reference for young immigrants caught in a spiral of poverty and compounded racism, along with the growing violence of gangs. He wanted to give them something positive to identify to. He wanted to represent the conquest from the perspective of the indigenous people while celebrating their faith and resilience. It’s a message of resistance to violence and domination as much as a tribute to cultural heritage, unity among people, and love for their continent.
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