Leidesdorff Ranch: Goethe Park supporters and white supremacy

"The region's parkways are important to local residents as part of our community's heritage," said Sacramento County Regional Parks Deputy Director Jill Ritzman, the heritage she references seems to embrace only the systemic institutional racism preached and prophesied by C.M. Goethe.

During County Park Commission meeting in Sacramento County Board of Supervisors Chambers, Black History Month 2008, Regional Parks Director Ritzman found it necessary to converse with a relative of C.M. Goethe, in German with a tone and tenor of defiance during the official session, it is a sign and symbol.

Sacramento County Regional Parks officials continues to withhold salient information from the general public about the proposed Leidesdorff Ranch Regional Park.

A “rushed question survey” garners “friendly”support to “help the naming committee choose "a new name" for this beautiful 444-acre park located along the southern bend of the American River.”

River Bend is what staff and park commissioners recommended, however "to be fair" lets go through a process to give an appearance of democracy while stipulating in the process rules to guide methodology to arrive at the desired outcome.

Silence about the construction of the African Cuban, Danish Jewish adobe ranch on the actual site in question. No staff report on pandering to Indian gaming interests for an adhoc name, at least one commissioner lobbying for a proposed recanting of testimony by a leading authority and no mention of Leidesdorff Ranch records submitted for the record.

Sacramento County Board of Supervisors seemed to lean towards an naming a Illa Collin Regional Park until a current Illa Collins Park in another part of Sacramento County was brought to the attention of staff.

Now it seems that a "geographical feature" and not a person's name is desired despite names for all adjacent areas along the American River Parkway for other deserving individuals.

A policy change is necessary to exclude the possibility of an authentic African Cuban, Danish Jewish component to the American River Parkway inclusive of actual past, present and future multicultural ethnic enjoyment of the region.

C.M. Goethe never owned, operated or cultivated the 444 acres in question. He did share widely his notion that it was scientifically genetically impossible for an African Cuban, Danish Jewish man to accomplish what actually happened on this selected geographical land by the Honorable William Alexander Leidesdorff, Jr.

This very fact must be avoided at all costs by Sacramento County Parks Staff operating with a love for C.M. Goethe.

If authentic official record of historic Leidesdorff Ranch is ever mentioned and documented then the role and responsibility for ongoing supporters of C.M. Goethe will be a complete failure.

Allowing authentic re~creation and restoration of the historic legacy of this very geographic location, Leidesdorff Ranch, is apart of the process for the general public to make an informed decision is beyond reasonable, however authenctic federal, state and county records are certainly not apart of the current official process created by the Sacramento County Parks Commission.

William Alexander Leidesdorff, Jr. owned all the land on the south side of the American River Parkway from mile marker 14 to mile marker 30, over 35,000 acres of pristine land with cultivation that fed, clothed and help house the early U.S. Military with government contract in early California.

The ongoing strong regional U.S. military presence within historic Leidesdorff Ranch could have been known prior to a “rushed judgement to proceed with a misleading survey” embracing deference to C.M. Goethe and his modern followers.

The Sacramento County voted to eliminate the name C.M. Goethe yet Sacramento County Park Staff cannot let it go, nor his foul beliefs.

The Leidesdorff Adobe Ranch Home was built and operated in 1845 under the terms and conditions stipulated by the Mexican authorities of California.

His legacy as the first African American Diplomat in United States History is of major significance and the stipulation to leave the regional native population in peace is unsurpassed in terms of his excercised humanitarian values documented in the title records.

William Alexander Leidesdorff Jr. owned over half of the American River Parkway and currently the Sacramento County Parks and Recreation Staff cannot acknowledge this reality publicly or privately in personal conersations.

His actual contribution along the American River Parkway at the actual site is an open secret being discounted and disguised by some Sacramento County Parks officials who have an agenda unknown to non-German speaking people.

Sacramento County Park Commissioners acknowledged ignorance of the subject matter during the meeting and yet choosing to silently capitulate under the cloak of a "false notion of WWII patriotic duty" with deference to supporters of C.M. Goethe.

The Recreation and Park Commission acts in an advisory capacity to the County of Sacramento Board of Supervisors and the department director.

Their mission is to promote, aide and encourage public recreation and community involvement, and oversee the maintenance, development and operation of all recreation areas and facilities serving the residents of the County.

Our California Gold Rush Legacy is taught in every public school in California however, the man who was president of the first public school board and help build the first public school is excluded by ongoing systemic institutional racism exhibited by the Sacramento County Parks Commissioners and Staff.

The actual location of Leidesdorff Ranch seems a reasonable place to share and preserve authentic California History along the American River Parkway where William Alexander Leidesdorff, Jr. once owned over half of the Parkway.

However, it does require telling the broader contributions of Mexican, African, Hawaiian, Jewish, Russian, Chinese, Caribbean, Maidu, Miwok and other cultures to the Great State of California.