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Denver Post: A Building Can Be Racist
Pundit Press ^ | 10/30/14 | Aurelius

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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TOPICS: Politics
KEYWORDS: architecture; denver; idiocy; liberals; race; racism; stupiddenverpost
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To: Tenacious 1

I thought Al’s ancestors built the Great Pyramids in Egypt? They also almost defeated the Roman empire when Al’s cousin Hannibal was marauding throughout the Italian countryside.


41 posted on 10/30/2014 11:30:44 AM PDT by peeps36 (Save The Tortoise And Kill The People)
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To: therightliveswithus

When the downtrodden underclass produces masterpieces of art, esthetics, and design like Notre Dame in Paris, the Pantheon, the Acropolis, their masterpieces can be incorporated in new buildings.


42 posted on 10/30/2014 11:31:22 AM PDT by I want the USA back (Media: completely irresponsible. Complicit in the destruction of this country.)
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To: CodeToad
Racist Ducks
43 posted on 10/30/2014 11:33:30 AM PDT by MrB (The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter admits whom he's working for)
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To: therightliveswithus

Holy ****! What next? High heels? The French and Louis had a penchant for them. Long pants? Oak trees? What about tulips? You can’t get any whiter than tulips.


44 posted on 10/30/2014 11:36:39 AM PDT by OpusatFR (I did make that. No one else did the work.)
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To: frithguild

All those white beams … must be racist.


45 posted on 10/30/2014 11:41:45 AM PDT by al_c (Obama's standing in the world has fallen so much that Kenya now claims he was born in America.)
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To: Pollster1



46 posted on 10/30/2014 11:46:09 AM PDT by MeshugeMikey ("Never, Never, Never, Give Up," Winston Churchill)
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To: dware

thank you!

please see updated version in post 46


47 posted on 10/30/2014 11:47:15 AM PDT by MeshugeMikey ("Never, Never, Never, Give Up," Winston Churchill)
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To: therightliveswithus

I lay the nation’s race problems squarely at the doorstep of white political opportunists who keep it roiled for their own selfish benefit.


48 posted on 10/30/2014 12:00:24 PM PDT by Genoa (Starve the beast.)
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To: therightliveswithus

So the reviewer there wants to see some Soviet-type murals and statues of Zulu’s or something.


49 posted on 10/30/2014 12:03:39 PM PDT by GeronL (Vote for Conservatives not for Republicans)
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To: Calvin Locke

You can see those symbols in India and much of Asia, they mean peace and stuff in those countries.


50 posted on 10/30/2014 12:07:18 PM PDT by GeronL (Vote for Conservatives not for Republicans)
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To: MeshugeMikey

rofl


51 posted on 10/30/2014 12:09:24 PM PDT by GeronL (Vote for Conservatives not for Republicans)
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To: therightliveswithus

How come these Liberal idiots never worry about the lack of diversity on inner city bassetball courts, or porches crowded with malt liquor swilling urban utes?


52 posted on 10/30/2014 12:16:36 PM PDT by Feckless (I was trained by the US << This Tagline Censored by FR >> ain't that irOnic?)
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To: frithguild

Is that a black man over there on the right?. Quick, someone should tell him the train station is racis.


53 posted on 10/30/2014 12:19:22 PM PDT by goldi
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To: cynwoody

2007? That long ago? My how time flies with Obola.


54 posted on 10/30/2014 12:27:02 PM PDT by Calvin Locke
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To: Genoa

I guess he would be happy if was built to look like a huge mud hut with a straw roof and mud floors, oh and let’s not forget the pigs running around for added atmosphere!


55 posted on 10/30/2014 12:41:04 PM PDT by Mastador1 (I'll take a bad dog over a good politician any day!)
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To: KC_Lion

I wonder what Blacks think of my city LA Union station that was build by African American artist

Probably same black that think that Black artists should never live in Hancock Park in LA

I wonder what they really think of Nat King Cole back in da day LOL!!!


56 posted on 10/30/2014 1:41:57 PM PDT by SevenofNine (We are Freepers, all your media bases belong to us ,resistance is futile)
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To: Genoa

These people are evil.


57 posted on 10/30/2014 1:43:11 PM PDT by NorthMountain
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To: therightliveswithus

He just wants to start the Congo Clock.

Otherwise known as the amount of time it takes for a Mall to close after the opening of the first African Art store.


58 posted on 10/30/2014 1:49:45 PM PDT by The Toll
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To: therightliveswithus

Tear the damn thing down and replace it with a wattle and daub (clay mud) constructed hut with a packed earth floor. That should shut them up.


59 posted on 10/30/2014 2:32:59 PM PDT by JimSEA
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To: GeronL

AL Sharpton is said to be readying a formal complaint and a set of architectural “Demands” which are said to include a Ceremonial Sacrificial Cauldron...


60 posted on 10/30/2014 4:07:38 PM PDT by MeshugeMikey ("Never, Never, Never, Give Up," Winston Churchill)
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