“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.
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.
“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.
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.