Posted on 10/13/2011 11:04:03 AM PDT by VU4G10
Interior Secretary Ken Salazar has been pressuring the National Park Service to locate sites related to the histories of women and minorities, particularly Latinos, which could be added to the National Register of Historic Places or otherwise preserved as parks or properties.
According to the Washington Post:
With the nation's Latino population booming and now the country's largest minority group, the Obama administration's top Hispanic official is concerned that the federal government is not giving enough attention to Hispanic history and culture.
Salazar bemoaned the paucity of such locations:
Less than three percent of all the national landmarks that we have — the highest designation you can receive as a historic landmark — are designated for women, Latinos, African Americans or other members of minority groups. That tells you that the score is not even....
I think when you look at the way Americans most understand the history of Latinos in this country, a lot of it is being told now through the lens of what’s happening with the immigration debate. While that’s an important debate that has security and moral implications, in my view, there’s also a huge history of Latinos in the United States that’s never been told.
(Excerpt) Read more at thenewamerican.com ...
The first Taco Bell? That auto shop in LA that makes low-riders? Cheech Marin’s route to Canada?
Actually, relevant latino history in the United States starts with King Philippe II who set aside everything between the Appalachians and the Atlantic, Nova Scotia and Florida, for non-hispanic Europeans who were also non-Catholic.
At the time it was a desolate wasteland that'd just had more than 20 years of hard drought. No one but the most desperate would wish to live there, so he, the King, gave it to them ~ and they came!
Jamestown is a sacred monument in memory of the Protestants King Philippe II saved from destruction in Europe. The Hudson Valley is another monument to the Jews who found yet another New Jerusalem in the wilderness.
I could go on like that all day ~ but that's right where America as we know it begins ~ with the Treaty of London, 1604, where King Philppe II crammed down a deal with the other Europeans to divide and develop various regions of North America.
We were given the least. We made of it the most.
Salazar is an ignorant fascist pig.
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So all the Mexican Cartel marijuana growers working there will feeeel more at home?
Puto National Park? Nah, that name sucks!
Jesus Christ, how about a park for everyone? I thought liberal morons wanted us to be all kumbaya and “equal”??
Maybe we need Mount Wetback with a bunch of illegals crossing the Rio Grande carved on it.
Give me a break. Parks are parks. They are for everyone to enjoy. They don’t need to be ethnically oriented.
I guess we should put some fences around it and call it a “Border National Park”, then....
I just wanted to bump this in hopes that it would be read by the guy who ranted about how ignorant I was for suggesting that Iberian Europeans, Cubans, Guatemalans, and such might take offense in being regarded as one with mexicans.
I also have a suggestion for Sr. Salazar; make national monuments of all the streams, ranches, back roads, and ravines that the illegals use to get here!
That way the feds would be required to clean up the damage and trash his pals leave in their wake.
To any group that defines themselves by their ethnicity, everything must be ethnically oriented.
If you have ever gone to a city park after a “Latino” party, you would just be stupefied by how they trash every bit of the surroundings around them.
Pampers on the ground, beer cans on the ground, paper and trash thrown on the ground, and every other bit of filth you can imagine. Even though, they are surrounded by trash cans placed no more than 30 feet from them.
Loud Mexican music blaring for everyone in the park and surrounding 5 blocks really tops it off.
White people gracefully leave the park shaking their heads and not believing that the party goers have no social graces to offer humanity and ruin it for everyone.
Unless you live down here in South Texas you could not believe it!
Yuma Lettuce Farm National Park?
Tyson Processing Plant National Park?
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