ANNAPOLIS, Md. — To increase diversity in the Maryland tourism industry, a state bill would establish a task force to study how more resources might foster more inclusivity among travelers and providers.
The state has a multi-billion dollar tourism industry, and it’s “important to review their level of diversity and inclusion of Maryland minorities and African Americans in Maryland tourism,” Lou Fields, president of the Baltimore African American American Tourism Council Inc., wrote in testimony to lawmakers.
In 2018, visitors spent nearly $18 billion on tourism in the state, according to a Maryland Tourism Development Board annual report.
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Northwest Woodsman: What’s next, establishing quotas and busing them in from the inner city? Hordes of cultural enrichment is exactly what the shore and Ocean City needs.
ReplyDeleteno tax dollars
ReplyDeletelet the private tourist industry fund it
i doubt they really care what race/relgion/ect you are as long as you have th emoney to pay them
People go on vacation to get away from problems and relax.
ReplyDeleteNo one needs to have this politically correct crap thrown in their faces.
Since it's my money and my vacation and time, I will go as others will, where it won't matter what your skin color or ethnicity is concerned!
This states causes more problems for them selves in taxes and fees and with liberal BS ideas!!!
That's why I leave this state each year to vacation elsewhere!
Vacationing in MD, now thats funny. Get away from this state as often as possible
ReplyDeleteGet over the BS! You're not a minority anymore. You're not AA either. Try saying you are an American only. We are sick of your so called diversity. Either American or not...smh!
ReplyDelete"... a state bill would establish a task force to study how more resources might foster more inclusivity among travelers and providers..."
ReplyDeleteThis means they want to find a way to spend state tax dollars to give to black tourism.
I don't know about you guys but I find this extremely racist. If the state Delegates wanted to create a bill that would "a task force to study how more resources might foster more inclusivity among travelers and providers" for white Americans during the Civil War then the blacks and Democrats would be in an uproar and cry racism.
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ReplyDeleteSounds to me like they will be giving free advertising to minority businesses, not because they are a tourist attraction, but because they are a minority business.
This crap doesn't work. I own a second house in Williamsburg, Virginia and used to get annual passes to Colonial Williamsburg. We loved visiting Carters Grove Plantation and then one day we visited there was a "slave shack" out front and we were greeted by slave interpreters. This was the new theme for Colonial Williamsburg, to make sure everything was surrounded by African American history. I and thousands of others got sick and tired of them forcing A.A. history down our throats. Not long after, in 2003, Carters Grove Plantation was closed to the public. People got sick and tired of hearing how great the slaves were and how they built America. We got tired of hearing how much smarter black folk was then us white folk.
ReplyDeleteWe quit getting our annual Patriots Pass and so did many others. The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation ended up hiring a new director and it continued to spiral downhill. Now that the state of Virginia is Occupied by many more African Americans and foreigners they have taken over the General Assembly. Our second home in Williamsburg is now up for sale.
Don't let Maryland waste our hard earned tax dollars on this African American Tourism because it is a waste of money and it will fail! We need to capitalize on Maryland history and American history, not African American history. That is divisive and racist!
Maryland already wasted a ton of money on the propaganda filled harriette tubman museum in Cambridge
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Sounds to me like they will be giving free advertising to minority businesses, not because they are a tourist attraction, but because they are a minority business.
March 9, 2020 at 1:35 PM
It's called an entitlement, Bozo 1:35 PM!
Armoured bus tours through inner city Baltimore. Let's see how the indigenous people live. Maryland's finest.
ReplyDeleteWithout oversight politicians will just party with that money.
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ReplyDeleteThis crap doesn't work. I own a second house in Williamsburg, Virginia and used to get annual passes to Colonial Williamsburg. We loved visiting Carters Grove Plantation and then one day we visited there was a "slave shack" out front and we were greeted by slave interpreters. This was the new theme for Colonial Williamsburg, to make sure everything was surrounded by African American history. I and thousands of others got sick and tired of them forcing A.A. history down our throats. Not long after, in 2003, Carters Grove Plantation was closed to the public. People got sick and tired of hearing how great the slaves were and how they built America. We got tired of hearing how much smarter black folk was then us white folk.
We quit getting our annual Patriots Pass and so did many others. The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation ended up hiring a new director and it continued to spiral downhill. Now that the state of Virginia is Occupied by many more African Americans and foreigners they have taken over the General Assembly. Our second home in Williamsburg is now up for sale.
Don't let Maryland waste our hard earned tax dollars on this African American Tourism because it is a waste of money and it will fail! We need to capitalize on Maryland history and American history, not African American history. That is divisive and racist!
March 9, 2020 at 2:00 PM
Unfortunately foreigners have taken over Virginia, Maryland and the United States and most of you people and your families stayed home and watched it happen.
If my memory hasn't failed, I recall reading lots of comments previously about how successful OC has been in changing the mix of its visitors.
ReplyDeleteHowever, many commenters felt the new tourists were not upholding the Family Resort PR line. amirite?