Posted on 08/28/2016 10:55:31 AM PDT by PROCON
Last month, two friends and I backpacked for a week in the Sierra Nevada. We hiked through meadows dotted with wildflowers, slept beneath snow-draped peaks and met plenty of other hikers: the dad and son whose Green Bay Packers caps sparked a conversation about our mutual ties to Wisconsin; scientists from UC Santa Cruz studying flowers and rock formations; five recent college grads from Kentucky who were hiking the John Muir Trail before they scattered to begin their adult lives.
But as the days passed, I grew increasingly troubled by the people we didn’t meet. There were a few Asian hikers, including a couple of hapas like me (I’m half Japanese and half Polish) and one of my friends was half-Iranian, but not a single backpacker who was Latino or African American.
This near-total absence of people of color — which I’ve noticed on past trips as well — was particularly striking because it was such a contrast to my everyday life. I live and work in Los Angeles. The majority of people in my working life are Latino, African American or Asian, and the people in my personal life, including my Mexican American spouse, are reflective of the city’s population.
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Thanks a lot, now I'm on a white guilt trip! :-)
Look, people need to understand they are a culture that does not appreciate the same things that many whites do, because whites do.
There are exceptions both ways, but the truth is the truth. Urban folks like urban things.
“Many criminals, Viet Nam vets, out to escape the world...”
Oh, dear. She’s found me out.
Seriously, the people in the ‘hoods, the ghettos, the projects, they love outdoor recreation. Things like shooting drugs in back alleys, having gunfights across busy streets; it’s all a matter of choice, as I see it. Choice is good, right?
By the way, thank you to all the poor people who paid taxes to subsidized our lifestyle.
I’ve lived rough due to necessity. I live right now what many would consider rough, no need to go out where there are rattlesnakes, cougars and and sleep in a tent to “experience nature”! I like sleeping in my own bed. I can understand for people who live in cities, why they would like to camp. I already live way out there.
You won’t see black people water skiing or swimming. Guess that’s the crackers’ fault, too.
The economy sucks-not much work, so I’m living in a place best described as primitive right now-fortunately I’m no stranger to hard living-when I was younger I lived in a herding shack on the ranch because times were hard, money tight-and I wanted/needed the solitude of that desolate place.
At least I have running water, indoor plumbing and electricity now-there was none of that in the herding shack-but I’d rather be living hard here in the woods than living soft in a city...
I am so much on the same page. I’m on 5 acres and I’m really not far away enough from the neighbors. Surrounded by mountains and countless acres of national forest. If I was younger and healthier I’d love to go on DAY hikes.
One reason was, too many white people.
I'll see if I can find that article for ya.
Here ya go
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/3311385/posts
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/12/opinion/sunday/diversify-our-national-parks.html?_r=0
Are we suppose to drag them out there by their hair?
I’m on a bit over 3 acres, my shelter is a small, ancient and falling apart mobile home-but there are lots of trees, a deck, I can grow a lot of my own veggies and herbs, the closest neighbor over an acre away-the river and woods are just a few 100 feet past the fence-and I love to hike and spend time in the woods, so it isn’t all bad.
My plan-when work and the economy picks up-is to buy a few acres a couple of roads away near a big creek-where it is even more isolated-and build myself a cabin. If that f’ing Hillary were to win, I’ll likely just be living poorer-my new and better life depends on her losing, bigtime...
That is so ridiculous that it is laughable-the people who write articles like that are not playing with a full deck, in my humble opinion...
Glad you liked it. At least it was well written, I’m finding it harder and harder to find things that are.
I shared it on FB too, to my son-in-law and father of the grandson and to my brother who worked at Yellowstone.
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What was really missing from her personal experience on the trail was anyone was not a racist.
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Actually. Most of the cowboys, LE in Indian territories, and original fur trappers in the Rockies were blacks. Most of them lived free lives. Then LBJ came along.
That’s okay. I don’t see too many white people everywhere else.
Another stupid white person who thinks they know what black people should be doing.
I agree...Bill Pickett was very famous...But I’m referring to the way they’ve lived the last 75 years...Inner city....
Hiking is a bit like work ... takes time, commitment, dedication, and effort. The experiences you get in the backcountry; the things you see and hear and get to do are earned, the hard way, not given to you.
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