Posted on 09/26/2014 9:14:10 AM PDT by jazusamo
The National Geographic Magazine, a publication heretofore not noted for satirical excellence, has published an article that easily could have appeared in The Onion. In fact, it begins by quoting that satirical publication as an authority. In Colorful World of Birding Has Conspicuous Lack of People of Color , author Martha Hamilton engages in hand-wringing and navel-gazing (yes, they can be done simultaneously, and for all I know, this might be good exercise) over the relative lack of “people of color” (as opposed to the colorless majority) out looking for exotic avian life. I kid you not:
According to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, in 2011, 93 percent of American birders were white, 5 percent were Hispanic (which includes both blacks and whites), 4 percent were black, 1 percent were Asian American, and 2 percent were "other."
The horror! If people do not do every recreational activity in exactly the same proportions, we are suffering from racism. For some reason, people who claim to “celebrate diversity” want every group to behave exactly the same. And we know who is at fault. Naturally, there have been groups formed, meetings held, and activism activated in order to combat the racism and microaggressions which surely must account for statistical disparities:
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
What do you have to say about this, Fly? :-)
LOL! A pretty good swimmer.
Blacks like bird watching-on the rotisserie!
Yes, because we all know that any “person of color” who tries to become a bird watcher will be lynched.
It’s the same argument the left uses against the Tea Party. Most blacks won’t support the Tea Party, therefore the Tea Party is racist.
How do we know it’s racist? Because most blacks refuse to support it.
This is an example of what my lefty college professor ex(thankfully)-girlfriend used to call “Critical Thinking,” a skill that apparently could only be taught by going to college and sucking up the left-wing curriculum.
These libs have to stay awake most of the night thinking up subjects like this to write about for their causes.
Black people are very happy with their own interests such as basketball. Should we try to pull them out of basketball and bring them into bird-watching? I mean, these poor guys can only be at so many places at one time!
“Critical Thinking”
I have seen plenty of that in Minnestoopid.
“George W Bush is a retard
George W Bush is from Texas
All Texans are retards”
Riiiiiight!
The author needs to look again, it's Orion magazine, not the Onion.
No, silly person, we should ban bird watching, since it is the moral equivalent of a cross burning!
Do I really need a sarcasm tag?
I subscribed to NG for about 15 years but got sick of the leftist garbage and dumped them in the mid-90s. I see they still haven’t grown up.
You’re correct, I didn’t click the link thinking it was the onion.
The Stupidity of Liberals surpasseth our understanding.
Bird watching is an inherited trait in our family. My mother could spot a nest and identify any bird from a mile away. My children (whom she never met) are avid birders.
So, yes, genetics, the love of nature, observation about our surroundings and the creatures who share this earth with us have deep roots. Some might call it intellectual curiosity.
How is it that a bird with a yellow beak is a different species than the same bird with a red beak but all people are the same species regardless of our many observable differences?
LBJ and the welfare programs have been the greatest impediment ever devised to black people achieving true freedom and success. Their slavery to the Democrat Party continues today.
Well said, totally agree.
Yea, we a bird watching racial diversity department funded with millions of taxpayer dollars to increase the number of minority bird watcher. If that fails, they can start a campaign to demonize bird watching as a racist activity.
Jessie and Al will look for a money shake down angle.
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