Posted on 05/15/2016 12:58:19 PM PDT by Impala64ssa
A coalition of lawmakers and civil rights groups has a message for the National Park Service: your uniforms and vehicles are very threatening to Latinos.
Maite Arce of the Hispanic Access Foundation delivered the really tough message during a press conference on Thursday:
Its such a shame that something as simple as the uniform and its similarity to the border patrols uniform in the coloring could be very threatening to certain segments of the Latino population. So a discussion about that is going to be really tough.
The coalition made multiple recommendations to the Park Service, including:
Assess the cultural implications of existing agency uniforms, offices, signage, and other facilities. For example, the Park Service law-enforcement vehicles look like those used by U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, and uniforms have law enforcement connotations, both of which present a significant impediment to engaging all Americans.
Review names of sites throughout system for cultural bias. Some may require comprehensive name changes to reflect a broader and more inclusive history.
The coalition is asking President Obama to issue an executive order directing the Department of Interior and the U.S. Department of Agriculture to adopt guiding priorities for a more inclusive approach to National Parks.
So now, we are fighting to ensure wetbacks have a happy experience in national parks. Friggin amazing.
Those “certain segments” are illegal aliens. They need to be threatened even more, and then deported posthaste. F them and their enablers.
Perhaps just a hunting season and bag limit.
I am so damn sick of these sorry assed freeloading invaders.
First we need to deal with these communist civil rights groups and the rest will handle itself
Because of King Obama and his communists Democrats. It started perhaps 30 to 40 years ago but under this communists black Muslim terrorists it has destroyed so much of America we may never recover.
Trump for President
This is not a civil rights group. This is a commie left agitation group.
They are terrifying! I'm scared and I need my safe space now!
No doubt!
I’m losing track of how many victim/whiny groups are currently operating. Seems everyone has a newsworthy beef these days...NOT
I knew a fellow in the 80s who was a park historian at a Civil War battlefield. He had been employed by NPS for several years when I met him. We were trying to find a time to get together and he said he had to instead go to weapons training as NPS was increasing the required number of deputized field employees as crime was getting so bad in the parks.
He had no LE background - history major. Maybe this “spokesman” wants a twofer - both legal and illegal aliens want to know who the poleece are so they can plan their crimes better.
Life can be a b!tch and even more so for the stupid!
Yes, Hispanics were white in the pre-Nixon era. The damage Nixon did to the nation, I’m not talking about Watergate, I’m talking about getting the EPA going as well as creating the racial division.
Still, I was not as bad as Bush II.
Usually, the only ones “threatened” by authority uniforms are those committing crimes, like foreigners here ILLEGALLY!
Gonna have to make them pink so the illegal aliens aren’t offended.
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