Posted on 08/30/2016 7:27:30 AM PDT by rktman
A woman by the name of Nina Revoyr had an op-ed in the Los Angeles Times on Sunday entitled “What’s missing when you hike the California backcountry? People of color.” Here, But it’s better entitled “Climbing Aboard The Crazy Train.”
Because Nina believes (or says she believes) that one reason that “people of color” are not well represented in the hiking and camping community is that:
For many, the wilderness, historically, is dangerous territory. Escaped slaves passed through forests full of danger …
Of course, a scholar might ask if anybody anywhere at any time in all the immense body of literature recording the black experience in America ever noted a tendency on the part of black parents to pass on a fear of the forests.
But scholarship hasn’t very much attraction to race-baiters like Ms. Revoyr, who’ll seize upon any silliness to illustrate how steeped in hatred America is even to the point of reformulating Congressman Alcee Hastings’s wacko idea that national parks are racist because blacks were once lynched from trees and there are any number of trees in those parks (see the Frontpage Magazine article here).
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“For many, the wilderness, historically, is dangerous territory. Escaped slaves passed through forests full of danger”
And sharks still cruise the shipping lanes where dead slaves were dumped overboard 200 years ago, right nina?
Question for Nina Revoyr - why are you forcing your values about being in nature or your own love of hiking, on to people of other races who choose not to participate or have different cultural values? isn’t that condescending?
Rascist much???
Such bull. So many black people, so many conspiracy theory. I’m trying to think of how many Jewish people go hiking in the backwoods...
The solution: Institute a National Take a Minority to the Wilderness Day. Problem solved.
She is trying to force cultural appropriation on people.
Trees bad. Ropes scary. Parks bad.
Nothing but more excuses that allow them to unload responsibility for their self-inflicted pathologies on Whitey.
The whole idea behind the BLM movement and the attitude of the Left is that whites are irredeemable, permanently guilty in crimes they have not personally participated in. That’s anti-white white racism.
Completely untrue. I saw a black kid on my bike just the other day.
“People of color” presumably includes brown people of Hispanic derivation. How come they can trek hundreds, sometimes thousands, of miles through jungles, deserts, cross rivers and even urban death zones, to reach the US, as well as to return home, if they are afraid of being in “nature”?
The writer fails to grasp the concept of “leisure.” People at the harder end of the work stick usually don’t choose to expend lots of energy gratuitously. Relatively wealthy “mental” workers seek physical outlets for their unused energy as well as places they can think without the noise of our hideous moronic “culture”. The rap crowd just isn’t into quiet contemplation and natural beauty.
One doesn't see Blacks doing much of anything but laying around doing nothing save an occasional drive by shooting or a drug sale, or procreating prolifically with any number of women to whom they are not married. Or maybe starting a riot over their place in line for the newest “Air Jordans.” Might ask Nina why there are so few whites working in these “endeavors.”
Ice hockey comes to mind.
Boy that was an excellent post
I don’t think Nina Revoyr’s premise is even true. I don’t go camping so I can’t say anything about campsites or RV parks, but in the southeastern USA you will see plenty of black people in parks and on hiking and walking trails. I do a fair amount of walking and hiking in various places and black people are out there. Nina’s “evidence” may be taken from areas with smaller black populations.
Not for nothing is it called the "racial grievance industry". There's gold in them thar hills, enough to build careers on.
I wonder, though, if Revoyr realizes how incredibly patronizing her case actually is? Narratives on deliberate vacuities such as "people of color" treat their subjects as little children frightened of hobgoblins. If there actually is a single black individual who cannot view a tree without visualizing a noose hanging from it, that individual belongs in an institution, not with a keyboard clutched in trembling fingers. Give it a rest, f'Petessake.
My Wife just had a chuckle when I read your Post to her.
They don’t sky dive, either. But that’s because
their lips explode at altitude.
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