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To: thecodont

Apparently, unless blacks are mentioned more by the guides, there’s gonna be some kind of taxpayer revolt.


9 posted on 10/30/2011 12:34:57 PM PDT by Krankor (Electrical banana Is gonna be a sudden craze Electrical banana Is bound to be the very next phase)
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To: Krankor

We now have social engineering at our national parks.


12 posted on 10/30/2011 12:37:22 PM PDT by donhunt (Certified and proud "Son of a Bitch".)
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To: Krankor

The women in the article obviously have never met Shelton Johnson.

http://www.pbs.org/nationalparks/people/nps/johnson/

“And I can’t not think of the other kids, just like me – in Detroit, Oakland, Watts, Anacostia – today. How do I get them here? How do I let them know about the buffalo soldier history, to let them know that we, too, have a place here?”-Shelton Johnson

Shelton Johnson dreamed of mountains as a boy, living in inner city Detroit. He had never been to a mountain range in the United States and his only experiences with nature and wildlife came through television and movie screens.

Enrolled in an MFA program at the University of Michigan, Shelton applied to be a seasonal worker at Yellowstone, thinking the park would provide a quiet place to work on his writing. “I got off a bus in Gardiner, Montana,” Shelton remembers, “right outside the north entrance....And as I was stepping down onto the ground, there was a bison – a 2,000-pound animal – walking by. There was no one else around and the bison was just strolling by! I looked up at the driver and I said, ‘Does this happen all the time?’ And he looked at me and said, ‘All the time.’ And I said to myself, ‘I have arrived.’”

Shelton Johnson dressed as a Buffalo Soldier, Yosemite National Park

Shelton has been working in national parks ever since, spending time in Yellowstone, Great Basin, and as an interpreter at Fort Dupont Park in the Anacostia section of Washington, DC. There, he met students like himself and his friends who had grown up in Detroit – tough inner-city black kids whose understanding of nature was about as distant as Mars. “That’s when I first made the resolution that I had to figure out how to connect these kids with nature, to get them to have a nature experience.”


15 posted on 10/30/2011 12:40:42 PM PDT by Pan_Yans Wife ("Real solidarity means coming together for the common good."-Sarah Palin)
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To: Krankor

“Apparently, unless blacks are mentioned more by the guides, there’s gonna be some kind of taxpayer revolt.”

The tour guide at Arlington National Cemetary gave the impression that no white person ever served in the US military.

“...And here is the grave of the first black soldier to fold his socks...”


17 posted on 10/30/2011 12:43:07 PM PDT by dsc (Any attempt to move a government to the left is a crime against humanity.)
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To: Krankor

Chinese,.... don’t forget about the Chinese /s


47 posted on 10/30/2011 2:01:11 PM PDT by wetgundog (" Extremism in the Defense of Liberty is no Vice")
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