Protesting bigotry at the Arboretum
About 40 people turned out March 19 to protest discrimination employment practices at the Dallas Arboretum. (David Taffet/Dallas Voice) City investigating after facility on city-owned land is charged with discriminatory employment practices DAVID TAFFET | Senior Staff Writertaffet@dallasvoice.com About 40 LGBTQ activists and allies protested in front of the Dallas Arboretum on Saturday, March 19, to call attention to the facility’s employment practices and treatment of minority guests.
Minority Arboretum employees approached demonstrators during the demonstration and later, as protesters returned to their cars, to thank them quietly for being there.
Dallas City Councilman Adam Bazaldua said the city’s Equity and Inclusion Committee has already opened an investigation into the allegations.
Bazaldua said the protest “is not falling on deaf ears.” But while he agreed that “something’s going to have to change,” the councilman couldn’t give protesters a timeline on when that would happen.
