They only want to honor 300 years of history? How about whoever lived there before the Spanish speaking people? They are disrespecting those people, some of whose descendants are living there today.
http://www.aaanativearts.com/tribes-by-states/new_mexico_tribes.htm
If these clowns want to be “inclusive,” and “historic” they have some work to do. The Sandia people lived there about 25,000 BC. I wonder what language they would say our Pledge of Allegiance in? ;-)
They must have been real lonely.