[PROCON]

.. but not a single backpacker who was Latino or African American.

Yes folks, there are actually liberals among us who wring their hands over this "unfair" phenomena.

The obvious solution is to charge us "crackas" a $500/day entry fee into the backcountry and to raise taxes and bus inner-city children up to the Sierras so they too can enjoy the backcountry.

[disndat]

(singing) The Hills Are Alive With The Sound of English

[2banana]

No KFCs on the trail...

[dp0622]

What a dumb ####. Her brain is allowed to make a voting decision. That’s scary.

[ImJustAnotherOkie]

I’d say they are tired of backpacking after crossing the border.

[JimRed]

Yeah, we’re turning ‘em back at the edges of the wilderness...or maybe they don’t CHOOSE to visit the wonders of nature!

[jocon307]

Yes, force those colored people out into the wilderness! Make them sleep outdoors on the ground! Let them get lost and die and be eaten by cougars. ONWARD!

[JBW1949]

Not just California backcountry...

I’ve hiked all over the Smoky Mountains and haven’t seen a “person of color” in the backcountry there either...And very, very few in the campgrounds in the Park....

[exDemMom]

So, we’re supposed to force non-whites (and whites of other-than-Christian religions) to go out and experience the great outdoors now?

[RightGeek]

And the problem is what exactly?

[erlayman]

Probably they don’t like to go and be stared at since there are few role models for minorities in the outdoors and 99% of everyone else there is white. It might change if Parks and recreation groups actually went into these communities with a full fledged education campaign, I’m not sure.

[liberalh8ter]

Question is, would this liberal snowflake force people of color to participate in something they wouldn't otherwise be interested in for the sake of diversity?

[Organic Panic]

Who cares??? What is it with these people? EVERYTHING is racist to these people. I’ve never seen any quadriplegics or octogenarians either.

[arthurus]

raise taxes and bus inner-city children up to the Sierras so they too can enjoy the backcountry.

whether they want to go there or not. Or require that any white or nearly white person to be accompanied by a "person of color." am sure there are many underprivileged young men in the LA ghetto who would jump at the chance to accompany an affluent white youth into the back country.

[DesertRhino]

Shhhhhhhhhhh

[bjorn14]

The writer makes it sound like its a bad thing.

[eyeamok]

“Absent a family tradition”

Typical Liberal, Progressive BIGOT, Assuming people should have Families. /s

[Sgt_Schultze]

Instead of saying people of color, can I just say colored people and save the unnecessary syllable?

[Mr. Jeeves]

Democrat brainwashing. They are literally terrified that the wilds of California are loaded with white supremacists ready to murder them at the first opportunity. They are encouraged to stay in urban areas and vote right.

[mjp]

but not a single backpacker who was Latino or African American.

desegregation busing for diversity on the trails. Not

[little jeremiah]

What a disgusting tool.

Visiting national parks is voluntary and open to all. WTF???? Anyone can go if they WANT to. If there are few “people of color” it’s because they DON’T WANT TO GO.

He must want to force them to go.