The owner’s longer apology references “listening and learning.” Well there you go.
Sadly, I think this points to deeper fissures happening in Denver. Skyrocketing home prices, an influx of new transplants, a city that’s more than three quarters white. This is a symptom of much deeper issues for the city.
This is especially apparent when reading the comments on the follow up article, they are all over the place, including some racist opinions. Unfortunately none of them (good or bad) surprise me about the conversation happening in Denver.
ETA: One of the more interesting comments noted that the City has encouraged this “improvement” to these neighborhoods by building government buildings/services, light rail connections, etc but then don’t specifically support existing residents and ultimately the improvements push out the long-time residents and established communities. How do you balance improvements to a neighborhood that may benefit the existing residents of that neighborhood (increased resources, access to more job and shopping opportunities with the popularity (and associated influx of people )that these improvements bring? Denver is having major growing pains in neighborhoods all over the city because of this popularity.
Our current mayor has had his hands all over this development process. I’m not a fan of his for this and other reasons.
These things always blow my mind because of the number of people involved and steps you have to go through to produce a campaign. Like, sure, I can understand a couple of white idiots thinking this is hilarious but NO ONE on either the ad side or the company side was like "Ummm...?"
These things always blow my mind because of the number of people involved and steps you have to go through to produce a campaign. Like, sure, I can understand a couple of white idiots thinking this is hilarious but NO ONE on either the ad side or the company side was like "Ummm...?"
This is what happens when you hire an advertising company owned and staffed only by hip 20-somethings.
One thing to note, which I learned myself when doing population analysis for reports is that Hispanic is an ethnicity and not a race per the current census classifications (history of census classifications is interesting to say the least). So you can be white hispanic or black Hispanic or be white non-hispanic or black non-hispanic per the counts, so they ask the race and the Hispanic origin question separately. It appears that Denver county is around 80% white and around 30% of the population (not the white population tho) says they are Hispanic, 50% are white non-hispanic. We are so very white around here!
I think that's the kid that ran for school board. Smart guy and I think he has a very bright future.
Yeah! At 18!
Pretty much the only reason he lost. He was favored by most people in that district, but the main concern was that he was just starting college and voters were worried he hadn't learned quite yet how to prioritize in the adult world. Many said they wanted to see him get his education first and they'd definitely vote for him in 4 years.