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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Translation: Parks should be free, and tax the rich to pay for it.
I can’t imagine meeting a group of teenage blacks in a park in New Mexico.
The obvious answer is to force blacks to visit national parks.
Male bovine excrement.
Show me an MLK Blvd, street, parkway, etc. and I'll show you unfriendly Black people.
5.56mm
“And hiking with your pants around your knees and $300 sneakers just doesn’t work”
Hiking with your pants around your knees could be dangerous in bear country.
There certainly is much unfriendliness all around.
I live 45 minutes from MT Rainer and this story is a load of BS. I have seen black people there.
Last weekend I was at the beach on the coast and saw confederate flags on trucks at the beach and I also saw black people there celebrating too.
The common element that I do notice when I see black people in these elements is that there is usually a father involved.
This is politically driven race hustling as per usual.
“Why are the horses getting so nervous?”
“I guess it’s ‘cause the closer you get to Canada, the more stuff there is that eats horses.”
They must be full of Confederate flags.
Do you recall what they did during the government shutdown?
There are plenty of incidents where park rangers have acted inappropriately.
I’m not saying they are all idiots, but like every other government branch, they are infiltrated by leftists.
Here in Colorado, a lot of Hispanics spend time in the mountains. We almost NEVER see black people in the hills. Maybe this explains it.
http://stuffwhitepeoplelike.com/2009/08/14/128-camping/
And even more scary, groups of Japanese and Chinese tourists. When our Thai relatives visit, the first thing on their list is Crater Lake. While our relations live mostly in small towns, the Japanese are largely super urban. So city living is likely secondary. American blacks are only interested in the hood. Unfriendly whites is nonsense excuse.
“It doesn’t even know how many minorities visit the parks these days because it doesn’t routinely track such information.”
Well, we need to spend lots of money racially tracking visitors. This is an urgent national priority.
Flesh-toned-American?
Everyone knows the answer to this. It's the answer to EVERYTHING.
RACISM!!11q!!1!2``!!11E1!!
The whole ‘free car’, EBT card stuff is dumb. Most American blacks are middle class and could easily afford to go to national parks. They choose not to more often than do white or Hispanic Americans. Why is that such a big deal and why does the government not respect their choice?
Excellent question with no answer required.
“It is the inherent micro aggression of nature to exert white privilege against minorities. Bears, coyotes, deer, wolves, jack-rabbits, elk, et al are all inherently racist.”
So are Mt. Rainier and the other Cascsde Range peaks for having only WHITE snow.
You have it. Many years ago I worked at youth detention center. The majority of our inmates were urban blacks. We took them camping in the woods. They were terrified—almost to to the point of being afraid to leave their tents. For the first time the white kids (mostly rural background) got to lord it over the black kids.
Snakes, bears, mountain lions were all out there, waiting to get them. I don’t think they learned that at school, but rather at their mothers’ knees. We used that fear to help prevent escape attempts. Now that I think of it, I bet slave owners did the same thing and it passed into family lore.
Hah!
“As they approached the Old Faithful Inn located next to the famous Old Faithful geyser, she could see barricades around the geyser and the seniors were locked inside the Inn with armed guards.”
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