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October 07, 2004

State Recalls Tourist Brochures Due to Culturally Insensitive Manure Tossing

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OKLAHOMA CITY (Reuters) - Oklahoma tourism officials have recalled about 200,000 brochures with images of activities that may have seemed uninviting to some travelers, such as cow manure tossing and re-enacting Confederate battles, officials said on Wednesday.

The pamphlet, called 2005 Annual Events Guide, featured events and activities throughout Oklahoma. It was also riddled with spelling, grammatical and factual mistakes.

"We discovered the material in the event guide was culturally insensitive and contained errors," said state tourism director Rob Gray.

One item that may not have helped was a photo of an event in which lumps of cow manure are thrown as a part of a contest in the town of Beaver, in western Oklahoma.

Another photo tourism officials found potentially objectionable showed Civil War re-enactors in Confederate uniforms firing cannons underneath a Confederate battle flag.

Confederate flags have been a flash point in U.S. politics as some have said they have racist overtones.

The guide had been produced by an employee who was no longer with the office, Gray said. He attributed the problems to a lack of oversight.

"Images are powerful," Gray said. "They have to be selected with caution."

I don’t know what to say about this. Both things are nothing to be ashamed of so I can’t see what the big deal. I am left without anything to say. I will let it speak for itself.




Posted by AJY at October 7, 2004 07:43 PM

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That is stupid and waste of a lot of taxpayer money. There is a big difference between civil war reenactors and the Klan.


I highly agree. Think of all the ways that money could be used other than re-printing 200,000 brochures.

How about we direct some sensitivity towards the poor, the homeless, or suffering innocent children.

However they say it was also riddled with spelling, grammatical and factual mistakes.

Working as I have with state government and currently working for ___ from experience I can guarantee you that no one will get fired or punished in any way for the lack of oversight on this. It will just be more government waste.


Well if Oklahoma is ashamed of the Civil War, I guess the South really has something to be ashamed of.... or maybe the North. I mean in the SW there are millions of travel brochures for civil war reinactments, etc... the cow patties might be gross to some, but heck it's Oklahoma.


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