-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.
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.
The timing for this story is, of course, suspect. Just when Obama is launching a new campaign for president, here comes his Interior Secretary pandering to Hispanics 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.
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Warner Todd Huston is a Chicago based freelance writer. He has been writing opinion editorials and social criticism since early 2001 and before that he wrote articles on U.S. history for several small American magazines. His political columns are featured on many websites such as Andrew Breitbart’s BigGovernment.com, BigHollywood.com, and BigJournalism.com, as well as RightWingNews.com, RightPundits.com, CanadaFreePress.com, StoptheACLU.com, AmericanDaily.com, among many, many others. Mr. Huston is also endlessly amused that one of his articles formed the basis of an article in Germany’s Der Spiegel Magazine in 2008.
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Warner, Your statement, “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.” has me wondering…
Perhaps they could lower the costs by using illegal aliens to do the work. – – – Another thought… They probably will use illegal aliens but the unions will still have their fingers in the pie. Doesn’t nepotism and graft count too? I like the all inclusive word, “Fraud”.
Another thought… Salazar is in the top 20 names in the Philippines due to the Spanish settling there a few years back. Wouldn’t it make sense for the next project to be a 12 million $$$ “National Museum of the American Filipino Latino”. (24 million plus for the final talley.) – I nominate Carlos Bulosan to be the honoree.