[truthguy]

For more than 60 years, the National Park Service has been trying to reach out to African Americans and Latinos.

Perhaps a few hip-hop clubs and a little more graffiti would make the atmosphere a little more comfortable for the aforementioned groups. They could even pump in loud music and perhaps have low riders circling Yosemite Valley. And how about some graffiti on Half Dome.

[Verginius Rufus]

I really doubt that in 1951 the people running the National Park Service were sitting around asking themselves “How can we make the parks more appealing to African Americans and Latinos?” (In fact they would have found the first term odd and wouldn’t have known what to make of the term “Latinos.”) In 1951 the visitors were probably much “whiter” in composition than today, because fewer non-white Americans had cars to get to the parks and fewer foreign tourists were traveling to the US.