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 didnt meet. There were a few Asian hikers, including a couple of hapas like me (Im 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 Ive 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 citys population.
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Walk how far? Dat be work. Ain’t nobody got time fo dat sh!t.
I don't care *who* you are, that, right there, is downright hilarious!
the infowarrior
I can tell the trails frequented by colored people near me.
They are the ones with litter and refuse covering the trail.
I’ve become adept at tracking them and identifying their markings. For instance: Dirty diapers thrown to the side of the road? That’s Mexicans, right there.
While vacationing out in AZ one summer, a game warden acquaintance took me to an abandoned Federal park. It was covered all over in unburied human feces, human refuse of every description, and was truly disgusting. He told me it was now a way station for illegals. Such beautiful land turned into a filthy fly-ridden garbage dump made me sick. They live there like literal animals. Who needs such people in their society? They don't prove me wrong in the number of drunk driving deaths, rapes, murders, etc. they inflict on our society.
I just took my son on trip to northern michigan. He noted how there were no blacks. Then we drove into newberry and saw a whole bunch.... At the state pen.
It was so bad that, at the time, some troops were buying older manuals, and there was talk of publishing a new manual that was very wilderness oriented and serious.
Oddly enough, I bet if someone published hard core wilderness/survivalist/roughing it book series oriented at boys, it would probably sell very well. It would need versions for woodland, deserts, prairie, swampland, cold weather, medical, weapons and trapping, and naval.
Such books would make liberals/eco freaks/PETA types lose their marbles.
“3. I wish I was kidding.”
That was funny and sad at the same time!
If you are white and a black bear maws you is that considered a hate crime?
From this I take that National Parks and other “wilderness” areas are preferred locales for recreating. The possibility of feral activity there is still minimal.
Interesting CA fact: drinking is illegal at state parks unless you’re a Mexican. I go hiking all the time and the picnic areas are always full of drunk Mexicans that the rangers ignore while the trails are 70/30 whites and Asians.
I am actually less worried about a encounter with bears than i am with a person.
Since there are hardly any POC, peach colored people excluded, it is not based on race.
Perhaps, they could pay POC of color to take a hike?
That would be justifiable cracka-cide.
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