Posted on 07/11/2015 7:57:43 AM PDT by Second Amendment First
SEATTLE — MOUNT RAINIER stands sentry over Seattle. On clear days, the mountain is the dominant backdrop, particularly in the city’s southeast, where its most racially diverse neighborhoods embrace their majestic setting with names like Rainier Valley and Rainier Beach.
Michelle Perry lives in an adjoining neighborhood and travels to work on Rainier Avenue South. The looming mountain enchants and beguiles nearly the entire way. She knows she can keep driving south and visit Rainier and the national park that surrounds it. Ms. Perry, 58, an African-American, has an idea about what she’d find up there — mosquitoes, which she hates, and bears, cougars and wolves, which she fears.
“The mountains are beautiful to watch,” she said, pausing for effect, “from a distance.”
As it approaches its centennial on Aug. 25, 2016, the National Park Service says it wants to encourage people like Ms. Perry to visit. It has its work cut out for it.
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Jeff Cheatham grew up in southeast Seattle, and still lives in Mount Rainier’s shadow. Yet, he said of Mount Rainier and other national parks, “I’ve never been, and never thought about going.” A 29-year-old African-American writer, Mr. Cheatham said he didn’t even know what a national park was, or what he would be likely to find at one. “As far as I know, it’s a big field of grass,” he said.
A neighbor, Carla DeRise, has been to Mount Rainier and other parks, and is game to go again. She just can’t get any of her friends to come along. They are worried about unfriendly white people, hungry critters and insects, and unforgiving landscapes, said Ms. DeRise, 51, an African-American. So she mainly hikes alone, albeit with some anxiety. “I don’t have a weapon,” she quipped. “Yet.”
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If the National Parks looked like MLK blvd, then all those Jack-Boot park rangers who happily enforced Obama’s Barry-cade policy would have a reason to be so well armed.
In many parts of the Northeast, you don't even see too many white people at state parks during the summer months. These places have become dominated by immigrants from Latin America and Asia.
So unfriendly!
Once in my life, have I ever seen a white person call a black person a “n*$^&$.”
That was the only time that I had ever seen a white person hating someone because they were black.
Once.
More times than I could count with all your toes and fingers times all my toes and fingers have I heard a black person call a white person a cracker, or hate on a white person because they are white.
Why is the NFL so black?
LMAO.
Speaking of unfriendly landscapes with mucho mosquitoes and ferocious wild animules, they ought to get down on their knees and thank the slavecatchers for taking their ancestors out of Africa.
Maybe NPS can adapt some NASA Muslim outreach training material to get Negroes to visit. I’m sure NPS can find one black guy who did something of minor significance in the Pacific NW so they have a topic for Black History Month.
Maybe the real reason is that glaciers are white.
>> They are worried about unfriendly white people <<
I guess that’s why when I go to a classical music performance in DC or any other “chocolate” city, there will typically as many (or more) blacks in the orchestra as in the audience.
On the other hand, there will typically be many Chinese and Koreans in both orchestra and audience. Go figure.
Park rangers are sworn office of the law and don’t wear jack boot
such a characterization is made from ignorance
... because they don’t allow Section 8 vouchers there!
Ah, ding ding ding
We have a winner
Coming soon: free park passes for every person of color
The same reason our beaches are clean and we don’t use them as the town dump.
Why are our parks so white?
Snow is the most truthful answer.
I was unaware that bears, coyotes, deer, wolves, jack-rabbits, elk, et al are all old white guys. It does explain a few things, tho.
BULLS#!T! The GD New York Times are scum sucking race baiting pieces of @%!#.
...hungry critters and insects, and unforgiving landscapes, said Ms. DeRise, 51, an African-American.
This IS the reason. Far more blacks fear critters to an almost phobic level than whites. It comes from an ignorance created by an education system that has trapped them both mentally and physically in inner city concrete dungeons where they have zero exposure to the natural world.
Calling such people Orientals was no occident.
The misuse by criminals of the areas named for MLK is no different than the misuse by racist groups of the CBF. Let’s eliminate the MLK, Jr. streets.
Hmm. I spent a day at a National Park last weekend (Crater Lake) and mostly it seemed to be dark-colored East Indian visitors.
Every national park has a black exhibition and shrine dedicated to some remotely applicable event in black history.
they still don’t visit the honey meant to draw flies
>> Why are the Hamptons and Martha’s Vineyard so white? <<
You need to do some serious research on the question. Martha’s Vineyard is not all-white, at least not during the high summer season. In fact it is perhaps the favorite vacation spot for wealthy blacks who live in places like NYC and DC.
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