So the backcountry can then look like this
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.
40 years ago I was a member of the aerospace Corp outdoor sportsman club and the Sierra club. With Sierra I did two years of their mountaineering course,the second year with my 16 year old son, now 54. Snow camping, ice and rock climbing. I did a lot of Sierra treks and xc skiing,as well as Santa Monica hikes and bikes. GEE now that I think about it there were NO people of color anywhere I went. I didn’t think about it then, too intent on saving my ass. And now that I am content,ar age 79 to walk or bike on the flat hot beach, I DONT CARE if people of color don’t do these things.
such ridiculous BS, its amazing EVEN the communistic LATimes editors let it get into print
a racist article if ever there was one...
what are we to assume, that black people are too poor, sick, and ematiated to even walk? or maybe the LA Times wants us to conclude something else,...like black people are too lazy to get off their butts and this also explains why so many of them are sucking up our welfare tax money? Is THIS what the LATimes wants us to assume?
or what?
(for the recond, I do not agree with either of the above propositions, I am only typing them to illustrate just how STUPID and INANE this article is!)
That said, the government needs to get involved to resolve this inequity. If "people of color" don't want to backpack, then make them. We could call it, oh, I don't know, The Army or something.
Dang, that wasn’t too hard to figure out why you don’t see any out there.
Have ever tried to negotiate rough terrain when you have your trouser tops riding down below the crack of your a$$ ?
I’ve been to many National and State parks in my seventy years and saw my first black family at Yellowstone three years ago. One black worker, lots of Chinese, French and Japanese.
At Grand Canyon a woman stopped me and asked..”Do you speak English?” She was trying to find the local medical center.
Lots of Latinos at Carlsbad Caverns.
I encourage foreigners to come as it is bringing back our hard earned currency so we can buy more souvenirs made in China!
I know that I would have enjoyed camping if I had more opportunity when I was younger, but I didn't have an experienced parent to take me and show me.
As an adult, I think it's difficult to just decide one day to go on a camping vacation and head to the sporting goods store to equip, without having someone else to guide me.
It's probably the same thing with minorities; it wasn't a handed-down family learning.
-pj
Typical liberal dumbass-I hike several times a week-but I live in the boonies where there are trails, woods and a river within a few 100 feet-my ancestry is Latino-not everyone likes the outdoors enough to go out and hike-out here, Nina would be told to mind her OFB, or go someplace else...
Latinos are not “people of color” either-we are just an ethnic group, like Italians or Irish...
If given the choice they would rather associate among themselves rather than be so multicultural...hanging with white people..
Most blacks have an inner city or urban heritage and city folk don't do "hikes in the wilderness" ...
Love of nature is a taught trait.
Many decades ago when I lived in the Pomona valley I took several day trips and many overnighters into the San Gabriel wilderness. In the mid-1980s there were many people living out there; roughing it. I made every subsequent trip armed as there were some dangerous types up there. Many criminals, Viet Nam vets, out to escape the world, lived up in places friends and I found nearly impossible to hike up into. On many trips we’d find - with Brahma as my witness - broken ice chests, piles of diapers, cheap aluminum lounge chairs and garbage, heaps and heaps of old liquor and beer bottles many miles from any trail head. I was told (by other campers, police, park rangers) that Laotion Hmong and several communities of central Americans would routinely hike into those remote places for family retreats and leave all that stuff behind. Hey, if THEY can do it, urban-American blacks can too. They obviously don’t want to. So leave ‘em the heck alone, more for US to enjoy. Or, in classic liberal-progressive fashion, start agitating for a “government program” to take those kids out of the city into the wilderness at great taxpayer expense - push it into the school system, not like they don’t have enough trouble just educating the kids who really want to learn something besides sex and drugs and pop music that they won’t readily adopt another unfunded top-down statist mandate. Sure.
I lived in the eastern Sierras for some time. Few blacks came up there. Few worked there. They stayed in the big cities where the ‘living was easy.’ In the great outdoors, you have to take care of yourself - you could die in a storm; the counties are not well-funded for welfare; there are cowboys and rednecks and gun racks.
There was a work crew came up once, when I was in the building trades. I hear screaming/ shreaking. Someone’s dog was wandering the job site - a very nice dog, everybody fed him. Lots of fear there! The crew never came back.
I worked with a black women who said that only white people go hiking.
the only possible solution is force whitey to stop hiking because it’s racisis
FORCE Blacks and Latinos to go backpacking! How DARE they stay home in their A/C when there’s rocks, bears, and bugs being monopolized by raciss white peeople!
Back in the 1970s, the Boy Scouts got a bunch of leftist weeners in the national organization. The first thing they did was purge the BSA manual of anything useful or manly, and replace it with “inner city scouting/community organizer” crapola. Among collectors, that edition is regarded as the worst edition ever made.
Then they had a *real* brainstorm. Why not invite a whole bunch of inner city “yoots” to attend a summer camp on a BSA reservation?
In retrospect, they should have called it “vandalism camp”.
They really, truly trashed the place. The buildings were ruined, trash everywhere, even the mattresses they used were either burned or thrown into a river. Damages ran into the hundreds of thousands of dollars.
I mention this as an example of what will happen if you take such people out of their environment to offer them things they neither appreciate nor respect. Such things must be offered at a young age under adult leadership.
There are charities that do exactly that.
So the backcountry can then look like this
“People of color” are more inclined to march than to hike.
How is this phenoma “unfair”? If blacks and Latinos prefer not to go backpacking, hiking, camping, fishing, hunting, etc., why the hell should I care or do anything about it? It’s their choice to do as they llease. Is the author suggesting that I should drag a bucket of KFC or a platter of carne asada behind me next time I venture into the Sierra Nevada mountains to entice my minority neighbors / co-workers to follow me into the woods?
What an a$$hole.
So no minorities in National Parks? Obama has already made it free for those with kids in fourth grade. (http://www.nationalparks.org/ook/every-kid-in-a-park ) what more do you want? Could us taxpayers pay them to hike, that might work. Maybe the new admission will be to bring a minority along.