the silly cow should be more troubled by the ones it meets on the streets... fehYes 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.
When I was young I remember asking a WWII army veteran why he didn't camp, and he said he had done enough already thank you.
If you're poor and can afford to buy a car (even if it is a POS) then why would you want to walk anywhere?
If you're poor and you are fortunate to have a roof over your head (even if it's in a tenement) then why would you want to live out of a tent?
If you're poor and you can afford some meat (even if it isn't the best quality) then why the heck would you be a vegetarian?
It used to be a mark of dishonor to have a tan because it meant you worked in the fields. Now a tan means you make enough money that you can afford the time to just sit around in the sun by a pool.
Having the financial wherewithal to spend a week or two pretending to be an illegal alien, i.e. walking on your own two feet and living out of tents eating only what you can carry on your back is not a luxury that poor people can afford.
It certainly isn't something that a successful person of color wants to engage in since it evokes the poverty he/she has successfully escaped.
Liberal elitists are working on ways to make it difficult for even middle class whites to enjoy camping and backpacking. They are trying to get more and more land designated as wilderness. So those who can spare just a weekend to get out into the backcountry, won't be able to do so because the backcountry will only be available to those who have the time to walk for a week or two to get to it.
The naivety and denial is strong with this SJW.
the silly cow should be more troubled by the ones it meets on the streets... feh“bus inner-city children up to the Sierras so they too can enjoy the backcountry.”
Somewhat related, after the Rodney King riots, Rev. Cecil Murray complained that one of the root causes was a lack of economic opportunity for the youth. I worked at the famous Anaheim theme park, so they paid the good reverend a princely sum, to bus in dozens of such youth, as “castmembers”.
They built a well appointed break area, filled with snack machines, TVs, ping pong tables, and plush living room furniture - much better than us current castmembers were accustomed to. Since it was next to my office, I would go there from time to time. It was filled with folks on perpetual break. No matter what time of day you were there, the same people were lounging around. Any people of color who were actually working took great effort to make sure you knew they were not from the “bus crowd”. If you dared to go into the room on a Sunday morning and turn on a light, you were quickly shouted at ( I usually opened a curtain, before I left, just for fun).
After the political pressure died down, and the Rev. had collected about a year’s worth of monthly $5K “donations”, the busing ceased. The brand new “break room” was gutted, furnishings discarded, and the portable building was dissembled (as well it needed to be). We regular castmembers went back to our original break room, with formica tables, plastic chairs, and one TV that was not cable.
Enjoy the hike and don’t be obsessed with the ethnicity of your fellow hikers. Bet there weren’t any Finns either.
Black people generally don’t do “outdoors.” I’ve seen so many Black coworkers lose their minds when we come across a snake it’s not even funny any longer. And I mean freak out to the point of wanting to go home. This is in an outdoor construction setting in the deep South and I’m not talking about travelers from another part of the country. These are Black construction workers who’ve grown up locally; men and women in their 30s to 50s. I’d swear they were taught as children to be deathly afraid of any reptile.
And don’t even get me started on spiders...
what a BULLSHIP story, start to finish...
first he should be glad that the trails are mostly his kind....the other kind has an astronomical rate of violence towards everybody else..
secondly, he should be thrilled that he is with peace loving social people...
he can just shove it if he thinks we need anymore "outreach"...
if they don't want to hike, bike, fish, hunt, bird watch, etc, then they don't want to...
I can't even imagine the fiasco it would be to drag a bunch a people up into wild areas....think of some of the museums and zoos in DC when the human packs are running thru destroying things, frightening animals...
nobody but nobody cares that whites are basically locked out of many pro sports and college sports...
nobody but nobody cares that all these music and tv and movie award shows have a preponderance of black crap....
Backpacking is way high on the list of SWPL.
“For many, the wilderness, historically, is dangerous territory. Escaped slaves passed through forests full of danger, much of it posed by other people. Mexican and Japanese immigrants and African American sharecroppers worked to exhaustion in the fields. These brutal histories may help explain why some groups might not be drawn to the idea of spending time — let alone sleeping — outdoors.”
Yeah, a lot of Japanese immigrants and African American sharecroppers were worked to exhaustion in mountain meadows, vast forests of pines, and/or the Sonoran Desert!
Why, Half Dome Rock isn’t natural! It was built by slave labor! And the Grand Canyon? Dug by Japanese immigrants!
How can we whites not appreciate the oppression of Yosemite, the Grand Canyon or Glacier National Park? After all...glaciers are WHITE! We have a national park dedicated to whiteness! How oppressive is that?!
Look, people need to understand they are a culture that does not appreciate the same things that many whites do, because whites do.
There are exceptions both ways, but the truth is the truth. Urban folks like urban things.
You won’t see black people water skiing or swimming. Guess that’s the crackers’ fault, too.
Are we suppose to drag them out there by their hair?
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What was really missing from her personal experience on the trail was anyone was not a racist.
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That’s okay. I don’t see too many white people everywhere else.
Another stupid white person who thinks they know what black people should be doing.
Hiking is a bit like work ... takes time, commitment, dedication, and effort. The experiences you get in the backcountry; the things you see and hear and get to do are earned, the hard way, not given to you.
Walk how far? Dat be work. Ain’t nobody got time fo dat sh!t.
If you are white and a black bear maws you is that considered a hate crime?
Interesting CA fact: drinking is illegal at state parks unless you’re a Mexican. I go hiking all the time and the picnic areas are always full of drunk Mexicans that the rangers ignore while the trails are 70/30 whites and Asians.