Warner Todd Huston
Newest PC goal: more Hispanic theme parks
By Warner Todd Huston
When is a national park not a national park? When it is "themed" toward one small segment of the population by a government infected with PCism. That is what U.S. Interior Secretary Ken Salazar did when he advocated recently for "Latino" themed national parks and historical landmarks.
One might ask if Salazar is Interior Secretary of the right country with such a suggestion?
To carry through with his penchant for identity politics, Salazar has also pushed the National Parks Service to forget about those evil dead white guys and try to find more places for our historic landmarks that are associated with women and minorities.
Imagine that.
So, what is one of the first new minority themed areas Salazar is ballyhooing? A paean to unions with a Cesar Chavez historic landmark.
To continue the left's efforts to Balkanize the United States, Salazar will preside over the construction of a National Museum of the American Latino. Reports are that the project would cost $600 million. But you know darn well that the final tally will be double that — at least — due to the common waste, cost overruns, union skullduggery, and government failures.
This is just one more example of the left's desire to separate Americans one from another and to make us hate our collective history and set us against each other.
© Warner Todd Huston
October 14, 2011
When is a national park not a national park? When it is "themed" toward one small segment of the population by a government infected with PCism. That is what U.S. Interior Secretary Ken Salazar did when he advocated recently for "Latino" themed national parks and historical landmarks.
One might ask if Salazar is Interior Secretary of the right country with such a suggestion?
To carry through with his penchant for identity politics, Salazar has also pushed the National Parks Service to forget about those evil dead white guys and try to find more places for our historic landmarks that are associated with women and minorities.
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Less than 3 percent of all the national landmarks that we have the highest designation you can receive as a historic landmark are designated for women, Latinos, African Americans or other members of minority groups, Salazar said in a meeting with reporters last week. That tells you that the score is not even.
Imagine that.
So, what is one of the first new minority themed areas Salazar is ballyhooing? A paean to unions with a Cesar Chavez historic landmark.
To continue the left's efforts to Balkanize the United States, Salazar will preside over the construction of a National Museum of the American Latino. Reports are that the project would cost $600 million. But you know darn well that the final tally will be double that — at least — due to the common waste, cost overruns, union skullduggery, and government failures.
This is just one more example of the left's desire to separate Americans one from another and to make us hate our collective history and set us against each other.
© Warner Todd Huston
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