Wasn’t there an article a few months ago about how threatening the National Parks are to minorities? Can’t quite remember why that was supposedly so.
1. The trees supposedly make blacks think of the days when they were lynched.
2. Park Ranger uniforms scare Hispanics because they look so much like Border Patrol uniforms.
3. I wish I was kidding.
It reminded them of the Hanging Trees!
LOL!
Blacks are scared of trees. Remember all those lynching on trees? That’s what they were complaining about. Blacks see trees and are microagressed and triggered because of the racist natures of trees.
Everyone knows that cougars and bears prefer black people’s flesh to white.
I used to take biology classes out to Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge and other "wild" places around NYC. I had to emphasize that there were no McDonalds or other sources of fast food anywhere near the nature preserves so they'd have to bring a bag lunch with them. This was obviously a foreign concept to a lot of the kids, including the minority students. It was such a joy to watch students initially reluctant to go on a nature hike field trip really get their nature on while out on the trail. They wanted me to identify birds they saw, they were fascinated by the little fiddler crabs we found, they cooperated beautifully doing transects across several habitat zones from the sea to the marsh, they loved trying to catch goldfish illegally released in a pond (goldfish outsmarted everyone by avoiding the nets), they were amazed at the beauty I almost take for granted while out birding myself. You know what? It was hard to get most of them back on the school bus to leave!
“Wasn’t there an article a few months ago about how threatening the National Parks are to minorities?”
Here’s a good piece from over at the weekly standard about a dad and young son visiting yellowstone.
It all sounds pretty dicey to me. But of course I’m a city girl, as a most minority americans, so we don’t dig that nature thing too well!
http://www.weeklystandard.com/safety-not-guaranteed/article/2003988
One reason was, too many white people.
I'll see if I can find that article for ya.
Here ya go
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/3311385/posts
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/12/opinion/sunday/diversify-our-national-parks.html?_r=0