Posted on 10/30/2014 10:08:14 AM PDT by therightliveswithus
The Denver Post is wondering if Union Station is itself racist.
Columnist Ray Mark Rinaldi wonders, "Did diversity miss the train in Union Station's architecture?" He continues, (emphasis mine) "The urban playground at Union Station isn't drawing people of color and it may be the building's fault."
How can an inanimate object be racist?
The newly designed Union Station is very popular, says Rinaldi. "If, that is," he warns, "you are white and not paying attention. Or if you think diversity doesn't matter."
It's design is an "Architecture of exclusivity," he writes. "The symmetry, arched windows, ornate cornice and stacked, stone walls have their roots in the glory days of France, England, Greece and Rome, in empires that were nearly absent of ethnic minorities," he continues.
"Yes, that's all in the past; things have changed," he concedes. "But the $54 million renovation of Union Station doesn't take that into account. It restores the symbols of an old world with no updates." And what else is missing? "There are no giant sculptures by African-American artists bonused into the lobby, no murals on the basement walls," Rinaldi explains.
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Oh the inhumanity...If only there were some large sculptures by african-american artists and some genuine ethnic restaurants and less symmetry.
So we should see gang graffiti on the walls to celebrate diversity??? What are they saying???
They worship it.
The sign of a very sick society.
Maybe if it were festooned with vulgar graffiti and some loose hubcaps.
One doesn’t know much about Ancient Rome if the suggestion is made that it wasn’t ethnically diverse.
** It restores the symbols of an old world with no updates.” And what else is missing? “There are no giant sculptures by African-American artists bonused into the lobby, no murals on the basement walls,**
No mud huts.
Well, a mud hut would have been cheaper.
What are the great signature traits of subsaharan architecture?
That was on a US Military base, right?
The swastika used to be the US Army's 45th ID insignia, as a tribute to Indian tribes in the SW US. Sort of fell out of favor within about 15 years, because of Hitler & Co. They changed it to a thunderbird in time for WWII.
It needs a few stripped down and rusted 1980 Oldsmobiles lying about, to provide a diverse appeal.
Man oh man... I’ll bet some upwordly mobile hipster got a pat on the back from his fellow hipsters for reaching waaaayyy down in the bottom of the barrel for this little tidbit of enlightenment.
He doesnt know much about those empires...
Just wow. These people are so tiresome they ought to be reclassified as non-narcotic sleep aids.
How true!
It was only after Rome starting letting in the "ethnic minorities" (Germanic invaders, etc.) - or rather no longer really resisting their encroachment - that their "glory days" where over.
Regards,
It takes a racist to claim racism of everything around them.
Blacks are the most racist of all people in America: They see racism of anything and everything.
It's a barracks on the Naval Amphibious Base Coronado, California. The Kossacks were on the case in 2007. Supposedly, the Navy was going to waste $600k to mask the shape. But it doesn't appear they have (imagery from 2014).
There were lots of minorities in the Roman Empire from Africa and the Middle East. IIRC within the last year I saw on a thread that the remains of an African were found in the area of a Roman military camp in Northern England.
Excellent!
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