Related story:
http://articles.latimes.com/2003/feb/15/local/me-buffalo15
What does that mean?
How Orwellian.
It’s a park, for crying out loud.
Not Enough Rainbow Colored People Visiting Our National Parks Alert.
I don’t think it’s the job of the Park Service to run a business. If blacks and Latinos don’t want to visit, then so what? And I would also suggest that they increase their admission until they cover their costs. It costs better than $100 to get a one day pass to Disney for one person. The Park Service can do the same, and simultaneously reduce the impact on the environment by reducing the number of visitors. There is no reason the taxpayer should be subsidizing the park-goers.
In other words they want to rewrite history. Okay how about “These black guys went and almost made the buffalo extinct. It was a crime against nature and we now need reparations for the buffalo”
Apparently, unless blacks are mentioned more by the guides, there’s gonna be some kind of taxpayer revolt.
I have never in my life been subjected to more politically correct and outright government centered PROPAGANDA as I have when taking guided tours in National Parks. I swear that the Rangers must be almost as brainwashed as the #OWS kooks. Just MHO.
Gimme a break. This is one of the stupidest stories I have ever heard.
For one thing, most Latin Americans who come here, except for Indians from remotest Guatemala, are of European descent (Spanish, English, French and German) and thus would be considered “white.”
But this has nothing to do with ethnic groups. It’s simply an account of the foundation of national parks. Theodore Roosevelt, like him or not, was the founder of national parks, not only for the US but ultimately for Europe and the entire civilized (i.e., non-Muslim) world.
Yosemite, from what I have seen when I have been there, has an enormously diverse visitor base from virtually every country in the world. The only people who don’t travel there much, based on my purely anecdotal research, are US blacks, but that’s their problem. Maybe they should look beyond their skin color and become human beings.
When I read the headline to this thread, I thought it was one of those semi-satire links.
Diversity is where nations go to die.
If these morons want to learn more about Buffalo Soldiers, there’s plenty of books to read, and manuscript collections to go through. They need to get off their fat asses and do some research on their own. It isn’t the job of the park rangers to provide you with an education on a particular group of people. I spent years visiting the National Archives and historical societies, going through personal papers, as well as military and pension records for black Civil War troops...and I’m white. All these folks want to do is complain. If they really wanted to learn about their history, they’d do it on their own, and not depend on the government to give them a watered down version.
How long before the Obama administration starts flying in African muslims for taxpayer paid vacations at national parks where minorities are “underserved”?
In an odd way, this speaks to how far civil rights has come in this country, when a woman touring Yosemite can be offended by her perception of the inadequacy of buffalo soldiers coverage.
Will there soon be quotas for national parks?
“Sorry, Whitey! You can’t enter the park today because we haven’t received our required number of diverse visitors to the park. Thank you and have a nice day!”
I am so bleeping sick of hearing race, gender and sex obsessed lunatics whine.
diversity out in the parks.
The last time I visited Yosemite there was no shortage of diversity. The primary languages I heard were Japanese and German. English speakers were few and far between.
The only reason there wouldn’t be enough preferred minorities present anywhere is because Whitey is a bigot.