Self-consciousness at work again.
Cultural appropriation?
I know of at least three black families who have moved here to Georgia in the last few years, from somewhere up north. The first thing they did after buying a house is have all the trees in the yard cut down.
One of them told me that his house backs up to the woods, and he’s afraid of the woods.
Here in Georgia, we cherish our trees - probably a holdover from the “pre-air conditioner” years when we were young, and tree shade was one of the ways of staying cooler in the summer.
I don’t do much camping, or hiking, but the times I have, I’ve never seen black families out “enjoying the outdoors”.
This is just a new, “something to bitch about” subject.
On the other hand, I notice lots of places showing only non-white models in ads. Going from one extreme to another is wrong. Unless, that is, they only want to sell to people of color.
No, but they finance the vast majority of your paycheck.
They’ve replaced all the Whites with minorities, on their new crap, garbage website:
I’ve camped throughout the country for many years, and I’ve yet to see any blacks comping anywhere. When I was in the Army 1973-76, we would go out on Field Training Exercises, and blacks were afraid of snakes, lizards, frogs, turtles, and all manner of woodland creatures. Most white guys actually enjoyed getting out into the woods for a few days. Blacks would routinely go on sick-call so they could get sent back to base.
This company is certainly free to examine its ad policy and history. It might be a good thing to over-represent people of color in its ads.
However, during a 3-week ccamping tour of the West last summer, I observed that the outdoors was indeed dominated by fair skinned people.
Yes, of course
I have never seen a black backpacker and have spent weeks on the trail. Having camped literally all over the cuuntry, I can testify that there are a very very few black family campers.
I take my kayak out at least once a week and have never seen a black kayaker. I interact with lots and lots of fishermen and seldom see any black folks locally. I know that in coastal areas that is not true.
We are heavy duty visitors of national parks. Even though all feature some aspect of black influence on the park or monument, there are very few black visitors except for school groups with kids.
Upland hunting, I’ve only ever seen honkeys. Of course it might be a New England thing, but there you go.
Truly virtuous would have been revamping their advertising without patting themselves on the back for being “woke”.
In answer to the title question, yes, unquestionably yes. White people do dominate the outdoors.
We are outdoors people and we travel. There are three outdoors groups: 1 The KOA big RV rich bunch that travel trough the outdoors. 2 The National Park/State Park set that has the save the earth types and smaller RV’s that get out and hike, bike and camp. 3. The back woods types that really rough it, ATV’s, truck campers, tents, guns and they hunt.
We are type 3 and also live in the woods.
Never, ever in our lives have we seen a Black family in either type. Hispanics and Asians, occasionally. Never a Black family.
City folks know what we country folks are like, though. ;-)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wrong_Turn_(film_series)
Ahem. Per If Canada used American racial categories, Canada is 81% white. Blacks make up 3%. The largest minorities are South Asian and Chinese at 4%.
So an all-white commercial with an Asian in every 3rd or 4th commercial DOES represent Canada's "diversity."
Performing arts major at university. Finding no info on his new wife. “Made in Canada” fading out at MEC. Related links below.
https://biv.com/article/2017/10/2017-bc-ceo-awards-david-labistour
https://commons.bcit.ca/broadcastnews/2018/03/01/mec-to-drop-brands-related-to-the-nra/
Simple fact is that blacks prefer urban settings.
Couple of years ago this was discussed here at FR
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3428526/posts
Gov’t has been spending tax money to find why.
https://dailycaller.com/2016/08/17/govt-spends-100k-to-figure-out-why-black-people-dont-go-to-parks/
NY Slimes reported on this back around 2010 or 2011
I believe that the US National Park Service has created a special outreach program aimed at ‘black’ & ‘minority’ populations that have not participated in the “Park Experience”. This was after some minority NPS Employees got the usual suspects to make the mouth noises about the unfairness of it all.
The old truism about ‘leading a horse to water’ seems to escape their attention span. Your government at work!
I get a bunch of free subscriptions to magazines. I went ahead and ordered some which I would not normally read. They are your typical high end stuff full of ads for expensive things.
I have noticed that often maybe 60-70% of people in these ads are Black. Actually it is astounding. It is clear that whatever their advertiser is, they are selling a lot more than expensive perfume.
Camping. It’s a white thang. You wouldn’t understand.
It’s just absurd. So blacks, in general, don’t like the outdoors and whites do. To each his own.
Somehow it’s racist to advertise to your target audience now. I want to see more white people in Nike commercials. Still won’t buy them. Idiots.