Now planting a row of trees along the perimeter of a golf course is evidence of systemic "racism." Interestingly, those demanding the removal of the trees, are also insisting upon the installation of protective barriers such as walls or nets to keep errant golf balls from entering their yards.
Could the trees have been such a barrier?
This is truly the age of the end of common sense.
And give all the cut trees to the neighborhood so they can make use of them.
So trees are racist now!? Ha har har ha ha !! The commie left is insane
There is unrest in the forest, There is trouble with the trees, For the maples want more sunlight And the oaks ignore their pleas. The trouble with the maples, (And they're quite convinced they're right) They say the oaks are just too lofty And they grab up all the light. But the oaks can't help their feelings If they like the way they're made. And they wonder why the maples Can't be happy in their shade. There is trouble in the forest, And the creatures all have fled, As the maples scream, "Oppression" And the oaks just shake their heads So the maples formed a union And demanded equal rights. They say, "The oaks are just too greedy; We will make them give us light." Now there's no more oak oppression, For they passed a noble law, And the trees are all kept equal By hatchet, axe, and saw.
As soon as the golf course closes, they can build some good slums there. Then they can add 7-11s with bulletproof glass not allowed, which will allow for good cashier turnover.
Stupidity never ends, does it. Gotta love liberals.
Trees help control “climate change”.These black folks are putting personal gain above the planet’s recovery.
Tamarisk trees ARE sort of racist.
It’s not like overt, KKK kind of stuff, but a lot of micro-aggression, and sort of a casually dismissive tone on minority issues.
Golf balls breaking windows would have been racist. Trees are racist. Soon barriers to ward off golf balls will be racist too.
You know, there is a sort of white privilege: it consist entirely of people you may actually care about not expecting you to believe this SJW crap and thus be hamstrung by bad ideology.
That though is only the case to the extent that your own family is free of SJW crap.
I read the article. After the trees are cut down, they want the city to put up privacy walls for those who want them. They want netting that will catch the errant golf balls erected. They want trees similar to the ones on other parts of the golf course planted where the original trees were.
I am not sure why the original trees are racist and the new ones won’t be, nor why putting up netting to keep the golf balls on the course isn’t racist.
I wonder how many of the council members use different means to keep ‘others’ out of their homes/properties/sanctuaries.
Fences? Alarms? Dogs? Shrubs? Trees?
So wouldn’t cutting down all those trees add to Global Warming?
Playing through.
Idiots. Trees are planted in certain areas around courses to limit the impact of golf balls on nearby residents.
And, I thought it was bad to cut down trees.
Perhaps they are looking for lawsuits when errant balls break their windows or bonk them on the head?
When hedges are racists, we’re all racists. (Oh, wait, we are!!)
I assume only White Birds and White Squirrels live in those Trees.
After everyone gets their knees back in place, maybe reason can set in.
It sounds to me that the PEOPLE who had the trees planted, did it for racist reasons.
It sounds to me like the residents/homeowners have a legitimate case.
“The Crossley Tract was founded by Lawrence Crossley, Palm Springs’ first African American resident, in 1956. Crossley intended the 20-acre tract, which at the time was outside city limits, to be a place where black families who worked in Palm Springs but were barred from living there could live.”
“....black families who worked in Palm Springs but were barred from living there....”
You can clean my toilet, but you can’t live here. AND I don’t want to look at where you do live while I’m playing golf.
“Along the 14th fairway of Palm Springs’ Tahquitz Creek Golf Course stands a long row of tamarisk trees, a 50-foot-tall wall of dense foliage seen nowhere else on the course. This species of tree, which guzzles water and leaves large deposits of salt, is so invasive that the U.S. Department of Agriculture has categorized it as a pest.”
http://www.desertsun.com/story/news/local/palm-springs/2017/09/28/palm-springs-african-americans-think-trees-help-segregate/574894001/
***seen nowhere else on the course.***
Having lived in Palm Springs, allow me to provide some context here. Those tamarisks were planted in the 1960s. It really strains the outer limits of credulity to imagine some landscape architect anticipating that the nearby neighborhood would eventually be populated by blacks. And reaching even crazier heights, trees must be planted in anticipation of those changing demographics, propholactically preventing black people from having golf course views.
Nobody is entitled to free golf course views. Homeowners pay a hefty premium for a golf course view.
The current Palm Springs city council is quite insane. Expect to see lots more of this kind of nonsense.
Yup, and a golf ball net is way uglier.