This group is offended by the color of Park Rangers uniforms?
Isn’t insinuating that Latinos are “special snowflakes” who need “safe spaces” upon viewing Park Rangers uniforms sound offensive too…to Latinos?
A coalition of legislators and civil rights groups say the National Park Service needs to focus on increasing inclusion on public lands, including possibly changing the “threatening” uniforms of Park Rangers.
“What we’re calling for is drastic, very scary change,” Maite Arce of the Hispanic Access Foundation said at a press conference Thursday.
“One example I can give you is with the Latino community, especially among the border states, but even nationwide, just the simple color of the uniforms that rangers wear.”
….Arce has joined a coalition of civil rights groups and lawmakers asking President Obama to issue an executive order emphasizing the need for the Department of Interior and the U.S. Department of Agriculture to adopt guiding priorities for a more inclusive approach to National Parks….
This group seems to have way too much time on their hands. Here is their nine-page list of demands to: Fostering an Inclusive Approach to Public Lands for the Next 100 Years.
And, in the spirit of “inclusiveness,” they include other groups who apparently also see cultural bias in the U.S. National Parks.
….There are many issues that inhibit people from visiting and using our public lands and waters today, including geographic proximity, economic challenges, and cultural barriers.
On the cultural front, African-Americans have felt unwelcome and even fearful in federal parklands during our nation’s history because of the horrors of lynching, Jim Crow laws, and other forms of racial segregation.
Americans of Asian descent have been disenfranchised. Japanese Americans were incarcerated in concentration camps, many of which were on public lands managed by the Bureau of Reclamation.
Hispanics have also experienced segregation and their 500-year connection to rivers and lands within the United States is not widely recognized. In addition, the recent anti-immigrant sentiment has negatively impacted Latino’s access to public lands.
Many of our national parks and other public lands are within the ancestral homelands of Indian tribes, and tribal members continue to value the natural resources and sacred places within these places as important for their cultural identity. This applies to tribes that were forced to leave their homelands as well as to those who now inhabit reservations in a portion of their ancestral territory close to parks.
We need to acknowledge and atone for this history – and together, move forward…..
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The insane tone of this administration and the collateral effects has created the front runner of the RNC. Everyone has taken leave of their senses. I can’t blame the push back.
What we expect to hear from our next president, “Get over it!”
Another side swipe at American icon. Even Yogi Bear recognizes a Park Ranger. If the uniform color is changed, shouldn’t that old hat design go too? (Hat is the Boss of the Plains designed by John Stetson in 1863, first worn by Texas Rangers.) Goes along with the unisex military uniforms that some push.
The difference, Alain, is that the illegals stole their Pick-a-nic baskets from hard-working middle class Americans and don’t want to give them back. Yogi and Boo Boo just borrowed theirs.
Basically they want signs all over the national parks commemorating every grievance from all non-white groups.
BTW, so glad Hillary getting flak from Native Americans about her off the reservation remark.
http://nypost.com/2016/05/01/hillarys-off-the-reservation-remark-angers-native-americans/
Hillary wanted to take that remark back, but she was afraid they’d call her an Indian giver.
I almost passed-out from laughing so hard!
LOL! She probably had a pow-wow with her campaign staff.
It’s also a microaggression to ask Latino officers to show you a badge.
Good catch Shifra!
I would say if Obama cave, again, the GOP should insist on the back of their shirts and jackets it should read; Department of Homeland Security (DHS).
Just saying, this will clear-up any confusion as to who/whom they work for and their ultimate goal.