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Yosemite seeks a more diverse visitor base
Los Angeles Times / LATimes.com ^
| October 30, 2011
| By Louis Sahagun, Los Angeles Times
Posted on 10/30/2011 12:22:14 PM PDT by thecodont
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To: thecodont
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.
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posted on
10/30/2011 12:51:32 PM PDT
by
mass55th
(Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway...John Wayne)
To: Vermont Lt
“I went there to make photos in the manner of Ansel Adams.”
Wow!! You set your sights pretty high. But I do agree with you, it’s hard not to take a good picture in Yosemite. I feel the same way about Glacier Nat’l Park. If you’ve never been there, go. It’s beautiful.
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posted on
10/30/2011 12:51:40 PM PDT
by
beelzepug
("Blind obedience to arbitrary rules is a sign of mental illness")
To: thecodont
How long before the Obama administration starts flying in African muslims for taxpayer paid vacations at national parks where minorities are “underserved”?
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posted on
10/30/2011 12:54:50 PM PDT
by
Iron Munro
('We do have tough gun laws in Massachusetts; I support them.' -- Mitt Romney)
To: thecodont
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.
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posted on
10/30/2011 12:55:38 PM PDT
by
EDINVA
(We Can't Wait, either)
To: thecodont
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!”
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posted on
10/30/2011 12:57:59 PM PDT
by
Jack Hydrazine
(It's the end of the world as we know it and I feel fine!)
To: Brilliant
Yep, as a kid I visited Yosemite in the summer of 1955. It was great, hardly anyone there and lots to see. No guided tours were available and none were needed. It was a graduation present for my 8th grade class before we started high school and a trip I will always remember. On a recent trip in which I stayed perhaps 2 hours, Yosemite was vastly changed and no longer the wilderness park I remembered.
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posted on
10/30/2011 12:59:05 PM PDT
by
calex59
To: thecodont
I bet Fontana eats only WHITE bread too, the old racist bast@*#!sarc
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posted on
10/30/2011 1:00:20 PM PDT
by
Free in Texas
(Member of the Bitter Clingers Association.)
To: beelzepug
The upper Peninsula of Michigan has some great and uncrowded state and national parks as well. The Japanese seem to like them due to the fact that they aren't overcrowded.
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posted on
10/30/2011 1:02:55 PM PDT
by
cripplecreek
(A vote for Amnesty is a vote for a permanent Democrat majority. ..Choose well.)
To: rabidralph
When I read the headline to this thread, I thought it was one of those semi-satire links.That was my first thought, too!
To: thecodont
What a bunch of nasty comments on this thread. I've been to Yosemite many times and never heard of Buffalo Soldiers being stationed there. So a quick Google search turned up an interesting NPS page on the topic:
Yosemite Buffalo Soldiers. This is an interesting bit of park history of which I was previously unaware. Good for these troops and contribution they made from 1899 to 1904! And I can sympathize with Ms. Hale who was just waiting for some slight mention of their contribution during a two hour history talk.
To: thecodont
I am so bleeping sick of hearing race, gender and sex obsessed lunatics whine.
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posted on
10/30/2011 1:09:43 PM PDT
by
skeeter
To: thecodont
diversity out in the parks.
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posted on
10/30/2011 1:19:57 PM PDT
by
ken21
To: skeeter
People visit for the “beauty” of the park, not for the political correct propoganda.
To: thecodont
More Blacks will probably visit our national parks when they decide to become Americans first, not racial separatists who emphasize "African" before "American." I no longer have any patience with that.
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.
To: thecodont
The only reason there wouldn’t be enough preferred minorities present anywhere is because Whitey is a bigot.
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posted on
10/30/2011 1:22:19 PM PDT
by
E. Pluribus Unum
("Government does not solve problems; it subsidizes them." --Ronald Reagan)
To: thecodont
Hale said she'd always viewed Yosemite as "a country club for white folks." Sure, it looked majestic in photographs, she said, "but I never felt that I fit into Yosemite's design. I never saw people who looked like me." Maybe it is just me but this sounds like somebody with a chip on their shoulder.
Yosemite is for white folks.
Then I was getting glares and stares Just ignored it Oh youre my hero.
It is the LA Slimes but they just sound like they have been programmed to see prejudice everywhere. Get over it and take control of your own life. Nobody owes you anything.
I was a Geek in high school, believe me I suffered a lot more prejudice than any of the people of color.
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posted on
10/30/2011 1:22:44 PM PDT
by
Pontiac
(The welfare state must fail because it is contrary to human nature and diminishes the human spirit.)
To: thecodont
![](http://www.public-domain-photos.com/free-stock-photos-4-big/travel/yosemite/el-capitan.jpg)
El Capitan is racist!
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posted on
10/30/2011 1:25:22 PM PDT
by
6SJ7
(I'm an AmeriCain!)
To: neverbluffer
I never knew about the buffalo soldiers in Yosemite. But then I didn't know the rest of the US army was there once upon a time, either.
It may come as a surprise to Mr Hale, but it doesnt much interest me, or very many others I'm sure, that the US military administered the place for 5 years long ago.
It interests her, thats fine. But she shouldn't expect everyone else to be enchanted by that little bit of trivia when they're standing in the midst of such a creation.
I'm sick of the complaining.
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posted on
10/30/2011 1:31:08 PM PDT
by
skeeter
To: thecodont
IN a similar way; zoos and aquariums try to indoctrinate everyone with an environmentalist script.
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posted on
10/30/2011 1:35:01 PM PDT
by
HereInTheHeartland
(I love how the FR spellchecker doesn't recognize the word "Obama")
To: Celerity
funny and TRUE.
also sad.
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