Farmington, New Mexico Community Relations Commission Rejects Proposal To Officially Celebrate A "White History Month"

From this Stormfront thread we learn that the city of Farmington Community Relations Commission unanimously voted at its meeting on Monday February 1st, 2010 not to participate in any event celebrating any proposed "white history month". The decision comes after Farmington resident Zang Wood, who is White, said he felt the Commission was discriminating against him by celebrating Black, Hispanic and American Indian cultural periods, while not recognizing contributions of Whites. Media stories published by the Farmington Daily Times and KOB Channel 4; news video embedded below:



When the proposal was first presented in January, one commission member, Catalina Liles, was sympathetic. She told Wood that she would organize a white history event at the Commission's January meeting. But at Monday's meeting, Liles asked the Commission to drop the event after criticism from fellow members and people who attended the meeting. "I said, Ok, I can make white history month happen", Liles said. "So I'm sorry and I would like to apologize to all of you."


Leading the charge against it was a white commission member, Randy Joslin (pictured at left), who said that no one else has complained of a lack of white history celebrations, and that the Commission shouldn't make its decisions based on a complaint from only one person. "I'm not aware of any large outcry from the Anglo community that they are being discriminated against," Joslin said. "The whole concept of the white history thing is kind of repulsive to me." Joslin is also a pastor at a local church called The Oasis. [Ed. Note: Note that Joslin used the phrase "Anglo community", even though not all Whites are of British or Anglo-Saxon descent.]

Ken Ellison and Diane McCants-Allen also spoke out against white history month, although Ellison put forth a compromise proposal suggesting that commissioners organize a celebration of several cultures instead of recognizing each group individually. But the Commission has no qualms about recognizing Hispanic Heritage Month and African-American History Month.

A Topix forum thread (no registration required to post) accompanying this story has already attracted 109 comments as of this post. Farmington, a city of 42,637, is 62.8 percent White, 18.4 percent American Indian, 17.7 percent Hispanic, and only 0.8 percent Black.

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