Forest Service warns Coloradans: Beware of camping Latinos


	Forest Service warns Coloradans: Beware of camping Latinos

Lexica

9-11-2009 6:04 PM

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bias, racism, white-normativity, the-war-on-some-drugs

Lexica says:

Polly Baca, co-chairwoman of the Colorado Latino Forum, told the Denver Channel that the Forest Service warning is racist and ill-conceived and threatening.

“It’s discriminatory and it puts Hispanic campers in danger.”

Marvink Correa, spokesman for the Colorado Immigrant Rights Coalition, said that the next time he goes camping, he would “be sure to play nothing but Bruce Springsteen.”

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9-11-2009 11:56 PM

BobbyRutan

Better avoid playing "Rosalita".

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