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Larry Whitten
Larry Whitten is making headlines because he is a hotelier in Taos, New Mexico who is being labeled a racist because he told employees they needed to drop their Hispanic first names, and were not allowed to speak Spanish in front of him... [more]
Larry Whitten is making headlines because he is a hotelier in Taos, New Mexico who is being labeled a racist because he told employees they needed to drop their Hispanic first names, and were not allowed to speak Spanish in front of him. He says he's just trying to appease guests, and it has nothing to do with racism. He said in an AP interview that he was sorry and never meant to offend anyone.
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Larry Whitten marched into this northern New Mexico town in late July on a mission: resurrect a failing hotel.
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TAOS, N.M. (AP) - Larry Whitten marched into this northern New Mexico town in late July on a mission: resurrect a failing hotel. The tough-talking former Marine immediately laid down some new rules. Among them, he forbade the Hispanic workers at the ...
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TAOS, N.M. Larry Whitten marched into this northern New Mexico town in late July on a mission: resurrect a failing hotel. The tough-talking former Marine immediately laid down some new rules. Among them, he forbade the Hispanic workers at the run ...
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“Members of several civil rights groups are protesting in front of a Taos hotel where Hispanic employees have clashed with the new owner. Whitten Inn owner Larry Whitten forbade employees to speak Spanish and ordered some to Anglicize their Hispanic names when he started making changes at the hotel in July. Taos officials and organizers [...]
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From rationalreview.com
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Former Marine Larry Whitten, 63, after buying a run-down hotel in Taos, New Mexico, set up some new rules. The idea was to turn around the Paragon Inn (now renamed the Whitten Inn), as he had other distressed hotels he bought in recent years. Rule 1, requiring the Hispanic hotel workers to Anglicize their names, and forbidding them to speak Spanish in his presence, went over like you might expect in this liberal NM town: badly.
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(The Associated Press) Members of several civil rights groups are protesting in front of a Taos hotel where Hispanic employees have clashed with the new owner.Whitten Inn owner Larry Whitten forbade employees to speak Spanish and ordered some to Anglicize their Hispanic names when he started making changes at the hotel in July.
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Larry Whitten rode the bus alone from North Carolina.
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Larry Whitten marched into this northern New Mexico town in late July on a mission: resurrect a failing hotel.
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Among the photos illustrating an Oct. 26 story about the owner of the Whitten Hotel in Taos asking Hispanic employees not to speak Spanish, The Associated Press erroneously included two photos, NMMD103 and NMMD105, showing two Taos businesses that are not connected to Whitten Hotel owner Larry Whitten or the controversy.
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An Abilene hotel owner who has a policy of renaming employees who have hard-to-pronounce or foreign names, said Tuesday that he has no plans to change his ways but that he will be more tolerant of other cultures.
Larry Whitten, owner of the Whitten Inn — with two locations in Abilene, one in Taos and another in South Carolina — has been battling a firestorm of controversy after some former employees claimed he is a racist because of a...
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