As Ed Scarce reported here, Trump’s administration changed which holidays qualify for free entrance to national parks, removing two holidays celebrating Black people and adding the president’s birthday. That tracks for this administration, which is so white it should be called the Whitey McWhiteCracker regime. But now things, of course, have taken another strange turn, with National Parks ordered to check their gift shops for items that support programs like diversity, equity, and inclusion – and remove them.
Interestingly, many of the 63 U.S. National Parks feature names of Native American origin, such as Yosemite, Shenandoah, Zion, and Acadia, highlighting deep ties to ancestral lands, even as the parks themselves sometimes commemorate colonization. But I’m sure Trump’s Sharpie can erase all of that.
USA Today reports:
According to an Interior Department memo obtained by the nonprofit advocacy group National Parks Conservation Association, parks have until Dec. 19 to review all retail items sold at on-site outlets run by partner associations and concessionaires.
