Posted on 10/31/2011 7:21:57 AM PDT by CW_Conservative
National Parks, the new “Racism”
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2318352/posts
America’s only Black Ranger at Yosemite National Park says Blacks don’t visit our national parks because the soil/land reminds them of racism.
National Parks, the new “Racism”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_XV8KwMRiSY
Maybe they should try advertising for free government cheese.
Very few blacks go to Mount Vernon, Monticello, or any of the Presidents homes.Very few visit he Smithsonian, Maybe they are afraid of learning something.
I have just completed a 30 day camping excursion across 17 states. We stayed in mostly state parks and a few RV parks. No National parks this trip were overnight destinations.
I saw a total of one black person in the campgrounds. That is one black woman in the company of a white man. We visited lots of National Parks and National Monuments where the black visitors were not numerous but in keeping with the national ratios. These were indoors, visitor centers.
It is said the total number of black skiers could have a convention in a telephone booth. That is also true in my experience of black backpackers. That is not a derogatory statement but one indicative of the reality.
Black Americans do not go into the great out of doors. (exception... both black men and women do enjoy fishing) To promote diversity means forcing black girls to strap on back packs and hitting the trail...... ain’t goin’ to happen.
Can anyone explain to me why we should give a flying fiddler’s **** what color our national park visitors are? I mean, seriously???
I commend you on your great taste in nat parks. Those two are spectacular. I asked my wife if she could have a vacation home anywhere out west, where would she have it? She replied: Moab. In all honesty, practically the whole state of Utah is a national park.
These kinds of questions are prone to p.c. libs for whom the whole world and not just America is a racist conspiracy against black people. They're racialists i.e. people who see race in everything. You're correct, this should not be an issue. If black americans don't want to visit nat parks, so what? But libs just can't help themselves. They look around at nat parks and see virtually no black americans and think to themselves "hmmm, what racist thing is keeping black people out?" Maybe black people don't go to nat parks because they just don't care about experiencing nat parks.
For that matter, many white people don't visit nat parks either. I couldn't get my very white pappy to go to any nat parks or state parks. He's lived in Texas for the last thirty years, and he and my mother rarely ventured twenty miles from their home. He and my now dead mother never visited one single national park in their nine decades worth of living in America. Even after he retired. One time I mentioned they might like to see Big Bend National Park, one of my wife's and my favorites, and the bored, disinterested looks they gave me said it all.
The overpaid government employees at a park, are counting visitors skin color?
This is really hard to believe..
Thanks. I commend you and your wife too. I went to Utah (Moab/Canyonlands) for the first time in 2006 at my husband’s request. We’ve been back to the great state of Utah 7 times since then. My husband and I and the kids love it. If we had to leave Colorado for some reason, Utah would be one of our choices.
There's not too many places in Utah we haven't visited, but we still want to see more. Last year we drove into northern Utah from Idaho on I-15, and it was spectacular. That drive is much greener looking than most of Utah. My wife thought it was the prettiest drive she's ever seen, and we've seen a lot of great drives out west.
We’ve tore up a lot of Utah too, but like you want to see more. We did something similar one year and drove into Idaho. We veered off from I-15 and took 89 near Bear Lake and then went to Soda Springs in Idaho. So much to see in Utah and the U.S. and so little time and money to do it. Even with the mountain lion attack in Big Bend, would like to see that too from your recommendation. A long way from us here in Denver though. Maybe someday though.
We’ve been to Big Bend twice, but we’ve never seen any cougars. A lot of roadrunners, some tarantulas, and a few lizards. I hear there’s bears as well in the park, probably near the mountains like where the cougar attacked the kids.
#2 son would love the lizards. The national parks are such a treasure.
#2 son would love the lizards. The national parks are such a treasure.
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