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Showing Original Post only (View all)This Is TRULY Outrageous & It REALLY Pisses Me Off! [View all]
Last edited Sun Jan 6, 2013, 10:48 AM - Edit history (1)
This picture is from a Milford, Delaware playground. Milford is in Southern Delaware in the very conservative Sussex County. I originally saw this picture on Facebook, from a liberal friend downstate, who was sharing it via an original posting of the very nonliberal Dan Gaffney, a conservative talk show radio host. It is nice to know that the outrage concerning this photo is bipartisan. And what is so outrageous about it, you ask?
Well, you can read what it says in English. In Spanish it says (paraphrasing) [font color=red]"You have to have a permit to play here or you will be arrested." [/font] The english version contains no information about needing a permit or else you will be subject to police action. It is an obvious intimidation tactic and a not so subtle "Whites Only" sign.
exact translation:
you must have a permit to play in this field - violators will be subject to police action
So if you are a white English speaking "American," you can play here at your own risk so long as you have a parent or guardian watching. If you are brown, if you dare play here without a permit we will arrest your immigrant ass. That is the fucking height of racism, and I will see to it that who ever is responsible for this sign will have their public careers ended immediately.
Make this go viral.
UPDATED:
with MORE signs (for those who doubt this is real) PLUS:
Update 3:
A friend of mine just toured all the schools in the City of Milford. There are three parks/playgrounds at or near the Lulu Ross Elementary School and the new Misspillion school (which are adjacent to each other), and there are multiple offending signs there. This section on the South side of town is home to many Latino families. Indeed, it can be called the Latino section of the town. At other schools and parks in Milford, in the more predominantly white part of town, there are no signs. So this just gets worse and worse, and there is no mistaking the intent. This is not a mistake in translation. This is not a photoshop. This is real.
WAY MORE PICS HERE!!!:
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2013/01/05/1176645/-Outrage-in-Delaware
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I don't think anyone will confuse "southern Delaware" with "the south" n/t
Canuckistanian
Jan 2013
#6
And also, for the record, Delaware was a slave state but declined to secede.
Luminous Animal
Jan 2013
#19
OH My God! Someone should sue for violation of the Fourteenth Amendment.
Baitball Blogger
Jan 2013
#7
America! America! God shed his grace on thee! And crown thy good with brotherhood......
AlinPA
Jan 2013
#30
How can a town/city get away with putting up a sign like that? They should be sued class action,
DrewFlorida
Jan 2013
#38
Okay, professionally. What I'm getting at is who paid to have these made up and set up at the park?
freshwest
Jan 2013
#83
Done with tax dollars, in any case, unless this is a private park? Since I'm not there, IDK.
freshwest
Jan 2013
#99
I note that no one at all was playing there when the picture was taken. n/t
Old Union Guy
Jan 2013
#51
These are the people that put Christine "I'm not a Witch" O'Donnell on the ballot
LynneSin
Jan 2013
#52
It seems that my guess yesterday (post 49) was correct and that this was a simple screw-up.
Nye Bevan
Jan 2013
#82
So how do you explain the English language sign that is an exact translation
Nye Bevan
Jan 2013
#100
From the Kos story, here's a sign where it says the same thing in English and Spanish
rocktivity
Jan 2013
#106
Or more likely just grabbed the Spanish "field" sign instead of the Spanish "playground" sign (nt)
Nye Bevan
Jan 2013
#109
Totally fake. Look at the relative sizes of the sign and the equipment behind it.
jmowreader
Jan 2013
#118