While most eyes are focused on the Roundhouse, we're still keeping watch over the rest of New Mexico. Here's a story you need to see:
Remember this? : "I salute the flag of the State of New Mexico and the Zia symbol of perfect friendship among united cultures."
Someone should remind the Roswell Daily Record what it means to be New Mexican.
The newspaper made famous for publishing the story of a purported UFO crash in 1947 is now becoming infamous for publishing the most racist editorial cartoon of the week - again.
The Roswell Daily Record, daily publication of 11,000 circulation covering Roswell, New Mexico, published this cartoon from cartoonist Keith Bell this week:
Here's the message from the editorial page of the Daily Record to readers:
"Roswell signage suggestions... to clear up any confusion about where some people should go."
Those "some people" appear to be Chaves County's estimated 35,676 Hispanic residents (see the US Census datahere for that) that are told to go "811 miles west" to the "Cesar Chavez home and national monument" and the county's 1,711 African-American residents who are told to go 1,272 miles east to the "Martin Luther King, Jr. birth home and national historic site."
In case you didn't get the full message, cartoonist Keith Bell added two birds chatting in the corner. "What this town really needs is a Larry Bird Boulevard" says one. "Yea!," says the other.
And it's not like the Daily Record can claim this one slipped by them. In 2011 and 2012, the Daily Record was called out for publishing more cartoons that Governor Martinez and Democratic Party Chair Javier Gonzales both said went "too far."