Be Preparados! Boy Scouts Wants Your Nenes.
16 Aug 2007
Now with a little political knowledge, me having been the only Latina Brownie (junior Girl Scout)has taken on a whole new meaning. And while the GLBT community is still not acceptable in scouting culture, being Latino is, or so it seems.
While the Boy Scouts have been much more outspoken about their rejection of gay boys, they have cloaked their racism in an allegiance to American systems. How can the Boy Scouts simultaneously recruit immigrant boys and deport their parents who use the values that the Boy Scouts praise to make a living in this country?Handbooks, advertisements, and even bumper stickers have been translated into Spanish. And though the organization is predominantly white, the Scouts are getting creative by offering soccer programs to children of immigrants from Central and South America who other wise might not think about camping, hiking, or knot-tying.
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2 Responses to Be Preparados! Boy Scouts Wants Your Nenes.
Chuck
August 17th, 2007 at 1:04 pm
Apparently this person believes the Boy Scouts want to share their program with Latino children in order to identify the parents and deport them? Just as the country is primarily caucasion, so is Scouting. But the membership does include many Latinos, African-Americans and Asians.
Mario
August 21st, 2007 at 7:05 pm
Wow,
Please allow me to quote this,
“While the Boy Scouts have been much more outspoken about their rejection of gay boys, they have cloaked their racism in an allegiance to American systems. How can the Boy Scouts simultaneously recruit immigrant boys and deport their parents who use the values that the Boy Scouts praise to make a living in this country?”
That statement is really full of blanket generic statements coming from someone that claims to be against racism. Anytime you start referring to the mysterious “they”, your statements become suspect. I used to be a Boy Scout and I never deported, or referred anyone for deportation.