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Why Are Our Parks So White?
NY Times ^ | JULY 10, 2015 | GLENN NELSON

Posted on 07/11/2015 7:57:43 AM PDT by Second Amendment First

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I feel safer in the backcountry of Yellowstone than I would on any street named Martin Luther King.
1 posted on 07/11/2015 7:57:43 AM PDT by Second Amendment First
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+1


2 posted on 07/11/2015 7:58:58 AM PDT by Bryanw92 (Sic semper tyrannis)
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We all know the national parks are full of unfriendly white people, right?


3 posted on 07/11/2015 7:59:50 AM PDT by silverleaf (Age takes a toll: Please have exact change)
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The same reason our museums are!


4 posted on 07/11/2015 8:00:16 AM PDT by ilovesarah2012
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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.


5 posted on 07/11/2015 8:00:20 AM PDT by Gaffer
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Hey NYT staff, maybe the folks should get it to the Hamptons more often.
How about building a public bus stop on the beach


6 posted on 07/11/2015 8:01:09 AM PDT by silverleaf (Age takes a toll: Please have exact change)
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What an absolute pantload.

The mountain is white too. Perhaps its racist.


7 posted on 07/11/2015 8:01:40 AM PDT by headstamp 2
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Not so much the unfriendly white people but the unfriendly black bears! Is that racist?


8 posted on 07/11/2015 8:01:47 AM PDT by ilovesarah2012
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Racist: One who sees race in every issue.

9 posted on 07/11/2015 8:01:54 AM PDT by Half Vast Conspiracy (Pres CTRL + ALT + DELETE to unlock this tagline.)
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Why is white so horrible? I truly don’t care and don’t think about the amount of melanin in people’s skin at various national parks. I don’t think that ANY amount necessitates action. I do not believe national parks have a need for a certain low point of melanin. They are there for whoever wants to go, from anywhere in the world.

If you wouldn’t write an article, “Why are the parks in Los Angeles so Mexican on a Sunday afternoon?” Then don’t write this article either.


10 posted on 07/11/2015 8:01:58 AM PDT by Yaelle ("You're gonna fly away, Glad you're going my way...")
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Nothing to loot in the great parks.

And hiking with your pants around your knees and $300 sneakers just doesn’t work.


11 posted on 07/11/2015 8:02:51 AM PDT by 2banana (My common ground with terrorists - they want to die for islam and we want to kill them)
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One day, when you drive up to Bo Jangles or KFC or Zaxbys or Zesto’s or Church’s and ask for white meat chicken you will be branded a racist and your tag number recorded for future reference in the Known Racists Data Base.


12 posted on 07/11/2015 8:03:17 AM PDT by Gaffer
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To: silverleaf

Why are the Hamptons and Martha’s Vineyard so white?


13 posted on 07/11/2015 8:03:35 AM PDT by Army Air Corps (Four Fried Chickens and a Coke)
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To: silverleaf

For these purposes the fact that every park and garden in the country has swarmed with “Asians” since the ‘50’s ( known innocently as “orientals” then)doesn’t matter. They count as “white” here.


14 posted on 07/11/2015 8:03:38 AM PDT by gusopol3
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” The park service needs to shout to minorities from its iconic mountaintops, “We want you here!”

If they don’t want to go, then just respect their wishes you crazy busy body!


15 posted on 07/11/2015 8:04:10 AM PDT by MNDude (God is not a Republican, but Satan is certainly a Democrat.)
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I am not white, I am ‘uncolored’.


16 posted on 07/11/2015 8:04:37 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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“Why Are Our Parks So White?”

Snow? Maybe the Supreme Court can fix that too.


17 posted on 07/11/2015 8:04:43 AM PDT by Spok ("What're you going to believe-me or your own eyes?" -Marx (Groucho))
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We all know the national parks are full of unfriendly white people, right?

Because they charge an admission and they don't take EBT cards.

18 posted on 07/11/2015 8:04:51 AM PDT by P-Marlowe (Resistance to Tyrants is obedience to God!)
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DITTO!


19 posted on 07/11/2015 8:05:08 AM PDT by Proud2BeRight
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dear mr. nelson, author of the article,

The reason the parks are ‘so white’, is because they do not allow folks to reside in them long enough to have a stoop and a mailbox!

Go figure!

The parks were instituted long before the first race riot in Watts, by the OTHER President named Roosevelt. You know, the one that was a conservationist, hunter, military leader, and had balls, UNLIKE the mulatto queer-in-charge, today.


20 posted on 07/11/2015 8:05:09 AM PDT by Terry L Smith
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