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NY Times Author: Whites Prevent Minorities from Going to National Parks
The Social Memo ^ | 7/13/15 | Aurelius

Posted on 07/13/2015 1:52:55 PM PDT by rightistight

Glenn Nelson of the New York Times asked last week, "Why Are Our Parks So White?" Mr. Nelson believes that race plays a role in visiting national parks and not enough minorities are going to parks.

According to Nelson, "The national parks attracted a record 292.8 million visitors in 2014, but a vast majority were white and aging. The most recent survey commissioned by the park service on visitation, released in 2011, found that 22 percent of visitors were minorities, though they make up some 37 percent of the population.

"This suggests an alarming disconnect," he writes.

Nelson believes that white people are, at least in part, to blame. "Carla DeRise has been to Mount Rainier and other parks, and is game to go again," Nelson details. "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."

He then details how, as a child, Nelson joked with friends about finding "Whites Only" signs at parks "or the perils of being lynched or attacked while collecting firewood after the sun went down."

Minorities don't feel welcome in parks, Nelson continues. To that end, "We need to demolish the notion that the national parks and the rest of nature are an exclusive club where minorities are unwelcome.

"The place to start is the National Park Service," he continues. "About 80 percent of park service employees in 2014 were white. The parks’ official charity, the National Park Foundation, has four minority members on its 22-person board."

In the end, Mr. Nelson concludes, "I hope the National Park Service and its partners are listening."


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To: rightistight
I thought the Times article was the perfect illustration of the unbelievably stupid things the NY Times writers and readers fret about.

Not enough color on the National Park visitor list - can you even imagine worrying about something so freaking stupid?

21 posted on 07/13/2015 2:04:28 PM PDT by dead (I've got my eye out for Mullah Omar.)
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To: rightistight

I believe there are some parks or national wilderness areas along our southern border that attract lots of non-white visitors. Many in fact, enter the park on foot, to better commune with nature.


22 posted on 07/13/2015 2:04:36 PM PDT by Dagnabitt (Islamic Immigration is Treason)
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To: rightistight

Yeah, we need MORE illegal aliens in our National Parks so we can get assaulted, murdered, raped or stolen from THERE too. And every time I gaze at half dome I think to myself “That would look much more beautiful WITH GRAFFITI ALL OVER IT” /S


23 posted on 07/13/2015 2:04:59 PM PDT by CivilWarBrewing
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To: forgotten man

Wow, and I thought it would sound racist if I said black folks weren’t “outdoorsy”


24 posted on 07/13/2015 2:05:32 PM PDT by thorvaldr
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To: rightistight
From the NYT comments section: "Ever since guns were made legal in national parks, blacks have become fearful of visiting those places, with good reason."

How breathtakingly stupid id that?

25 posted on 07/13/2015 2:05:38 PM PDT by Noumenon (Resistance. Restoration. Retribution.)
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To: rightistight

The left seems to believe that it has the right to bash anybody who it deems White because a subhuman who it deemed White went into a church and murdered innocent people.

What the hell does that murdering POS have to do with me? The fact that he has been described as “White” and so have I? bull$h!t. Guilt does not leak off the perpetrator and spread to other people who have similar skin shades.


26 posted on 07/13/2015 2:08:27 PM PDT by I want the USA back (Media: completely irresponsible. Complicit in the destruction of this country)
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To: rightistight

Here in CA, Latinos use our National Forests and parks extensively, ....... to grow dope.


27 posted on 07/13/2015 2:08:58 PM PDT by umgud (glad I wasn't aborted)
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To: rightistight

Whenever minorities fall short, it’s racism.


28 posted on 07/13/2015 2:09:00 PM PDT by WKTimpco
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To: WKTimpco

“Whenever minorities fall short, it’s racism.”

The Supremes decreed it.


29 posted on 07/13/2015 2:10:33 PM PDT by Uncle Miltie ( A system of government that makes the People subordinate to a committee of nine unelected lawyers)
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To: lurk

The parks are always available to everyone. It’s just that certain cultural groups prefer to stay closer to home.”

It also seems as though black people are more comfortable in areas where they are more closely packed in with their families, friends, dance buddies or even rioters. Open spaces do not allow for that all close together feeling.

Maybe the reason that whites enjoy the outdoors more is because of a lingering pioneering, exploratory spirit.


30 posted on 07/13/2015 2:14:42 PM PDT by angry elephant (Endangered species in Seattle)
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To: rightistight

31 posted on 07/13/2015 2:15:50 PM PDT by FredZarguna (Now, which is bigger, Pluto or Goofy?)
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To: rightistight
Because most blacks live in the cities and neither they nor their country cousins think looking out their car windows at Bullwinkle and Yogi is either entertaining or a correct use of their ample free time. Curiously, you won't find many white trash cracker hillbilly types lining up at the entrance of Yellowstone NP either. They might be found on an old and seldom patrolled park border dirt road sneaking in to harvest some wild ginseng set up a hemp garden, but that's a different motivation than "enjoying nature's wonders". Liberals are so f😃(#ing stupid.
32 posted on 07/13/2015 2:18:59 PM PDT by katana (Just my opinions)
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To: rightistight
""The national parks attracted a record 292.8 million visitors in 2014, but a vast majority were white and aging. "

Retired polar bears have moved into the National Parks? Perhaps the white and aging are the last left that care about them, although 292.8 million would be a significan percentage of the population.
33 posted on 07/13/2015 2:19:06 PM PDT by clearcarbon
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To: rightistight

Once again it’s just the fact they have no interest in much of anything beyond their own little worlds.

It’s not our fault they don’t have wide interests.

I see this in every aspect of life. Nything remotely “cultural” really doesn’t have much participation by favored minorities.

Notice I said favored.


34 posted on 07/13/2015 2:19:27 PM PDT by the OlLine Rebel (Common sense is an uncommon virtue./Federal-run medical care is as good as state-run DMVs.)
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To: MUDDOG
Yes, but for too many minorities and their liberal enablers, the legacy of Boo-boo vs. Ferguson can never be forgotten.
35 posted on 07/13/2015 2:23:01 PM PDT by FredZarguna (Now, which is bigger, Pluto or Goofy?)
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To: rightistight

Cuz neither the Number 3 bus nor the Blue Line go to the woods?


36 posted on 07/13/2015 2:25:10 PM PDT by IYAS9YAS (Has anyone seen my tagline? It was here yesterday. I seem to have misplaced it.)
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To: rightistight

Maybe Obama can get George Soros to bus some minorities in..


37 posted on 07/13/2015 2:25:33 PM PDT by just me (GOD BLESS AMERICA Amen)
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To: FredZarguna

LOL! That’s even better!


38 posted on 07/13/2015 2:25:39 PM PDT by MUDDOG
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To: clearcarbon
but a vast majority were white and aging.

Gee, let's see: people who are retired and get a huge discount to go to national parks actually go there. How can this be?

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Derp.

39 posted on 07/13/2015 2:27:23 PM PDT by FredZarguna (Now, which is bigger, Pluto or Goofy?)
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To: rightistight
It takes a modicum of education to visit and enjoy the National Parks. Unfortunately, or fortunately, the Bell Curve has an effect upon the number and type of visitors.

One would think that blacks would be profoundly interested in the battlefields that resulted in their freedom and yet in my experiences less than 1% of the visitors are black.

40 posted on 07/13/2015 2:27:45 PM PDT by vetvetdoug
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