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'Racist' trees separating a black neighborhood from a golf course will come down
Atlanta Journal-Constitution ^ | December 18, 2017 | Corinne S Kennedy

Posted on 12/19/2017 10:48:29 AM PST by Zakeet

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To: Zakeet
Residents said the invasive tamarisks, which block views of the Tahquitz Creek Golf Course and San Jacinto mountains, have artificially depressed property values and prevented black families from accumulating wealth in their property over the past half century.

Know what? If I can walk down that street when everyone is indoors and not be able to tell that it is a "black" neighborhood, I'll say "Take 'em down". But if the condition of the homes is such that the view wouldn't be meaningful, I'd say leave the trees.

61 posted on 12/19/2017 11:23:02 AM PST by JimRed ( TERM LIMITS, NOW! Build the Wall Faster! TRUTH is the new HATE SPEECH.)
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To: Zakeet
Do you know how hard it is to get a tree chopped down in California?

If I had only known how easy this approach would be...

-PJ

62 posted on 12/19/2017 11:24:00 AM PST by Political Junkie Too (The 1st Amendment gives the People the right to a free press, not CNN the right to the 1st question.)
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To: boycott

Beautiful, yes only afrikans could get Californians to cut down trees. Well said.


63 posted on 12/19/2017 11:24:33 AM PST by krug
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To: Mears

Ik,r? I’d say those folks not taking care of their property, letting the hood deteriorate into a war zone, graffiti & trash are the real reasons why they haven’t been “accumulating wealth in their property over the past half century.”

But by all means, cut down those racist racist trees! When those errant golf balls start doing drive-bys, watch them change their tune.

Unintended consequences are typically the result of either not thinking things through or seeing reality through a tainted lens.


64 posted on 12/19/2017 11:24:51 AM PST by Maskot (Put every dem/lib in prison...like yesterday.)
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To: I want the USA back
They have extended the “racist” tag to every White human, old or young, to all animals, and now they have left the animal kingdom and are working on plants. After they convince the world that all plants are secretly White racists, they will move on to rocks and sand.

Don't forget snow! You can check that one off the list:

Free Republic: ‘Snowflake students’ get University to apologize for calling snow white — RT UK News

65 posted on 12/19/2017 11:25:32 AM PST by Hadean
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To: Responsibility2nd

The Onion just officially gave up its ghost. No way can it top this.........


66 posted on 12/19/2017 11:26:27 AM PST by leaning conservative (snow coming, school cancelled, yayyyyyyyyy!!!!!!!!!!!)
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To: MeganC

And when their windows start getting broken, they’ll demand the white racist golf course be moved or some such nonsense.


67 posted on 12/19/2017 11:26:33 AM PST by metmom ( ...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith..)
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To: blueunicorn6

The trees were Black Walnut, and now they’ll be without a job.


68 posted on 12/19/2017 11:27:46 AM PST by Made In The USA (Next thing you know, 'ol Jed's a millionaire)
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To: Zakeet

Wait until a WHITE golf ball dinks some AA kid in his dome.
Will there be riots?


69 posted on 12/19/2017 11:29:04 AM PST by Keyhopper (Indians had bad immigration laws)
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To: Ruy Dias de Bivar
They will suck the last bit of moisture out of the soil.

It's Palm Springs, how much could there be?...............

70 posted on 12/19/2017 11:29:18 AM PST by Red Badger (Road Rage lasts 5 minutes. Road Rash lasts 5 months!.....................)
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To: Zakeet

Yet another incident that makes charges of “racism” difficult to take seriously. It’s another cause for NFL players to kneel.


71 posted on 12/19/2017 11:30:30 AM PST by windsorknot
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To: Made In The USA

It took me a minute, but good one.


72 posted on 12/19/2017 11:30:45 AM PST by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer")
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To: boycott

And only Indians can kill eagles.


73 posted on 12/19/2017 11:31:09 AM PST by Sacajaweau
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To: MeganC
After the ‘racist’ trees are removed then the ignorant fools will complain about all the racist white balls that the trees used to block for them.

Women and children hardest hit.

74 posted on 12/19/2017 11:31:31 AM PST by mountn man (The Pleasure You Get From Life, Is Equal To The Attitude You Put Into It)
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To: Zakeet

How stupid to cut down fine trees for P.C.

But then, we all know that. Good gosh the stupidity of liberals.


75 posted on 12/19/2017 11:32:15 AM PST by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: Mears
Huh?

Don't try to make sense of it. There is none.

76 posted on 12/19/2017 11:32:34 AM PST by Skooz (Gabba Gabba we accept you we accept you one of us Gabba Gabba we accept you we accept you one of us)
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To: bassmaner

I was waiting for that....


77 posted on 12/19/2017 11:33:17 AM PST by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: MHT

My parents had a condo on a golf course, and within a year day had filled a ktichen sized garbage can with golf balls found in his yard.

Glad that Dad didn’t have to take care of the yard, can only imagine what it’s like when you run the mower over a few golf balls. I mean, do you yell FORE before cutting the grass?


78 posted on 12/19/2017 11:34:09 AM PST by Made In The USA (Next thing you know, 'ol Jed's a millionaire)
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To: Zakeet

This is the golf course that tried out the Robot Caddies. At first the members loved them since the Robot Caddie would observe its player hitting balls on the range and then give the player club selection advice, exact distance to target and stance alignment instructions. Those players electing to use the Robot Caddies saw their handicaps plummeting and their golf gambling wallets fattening. Then things changed when a couple of patrons complained about sun glare from the Robot Caddies’ stainless steel bodies and the course Head Professional ordered his crew to spray paint every Robot Caddie flat black. The next morning the Head Pro came in before sunrise to open the shop and found the cash register emptied and all the shop inventory gone. And the Robot Caddies had vanished.


79 posted on 12/19/2017 11:35:03 AM PST by VietVet876
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To: Responsibility2nd
[real estate agent Trae Daniel]

This guy?


80 posted on 12/19/2017 11:36:17 AM PST by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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