“Tried to interest my black friends and acquaintances in skiing. “We don’t do that” was the common answer.”
I’ve heard the same response from black friends and associates when asking about RV camping. I have observed very few blacks visiting campgrounds at state and national parks as well as private campgrounds so there may be some truth to the RV comment.
I quit a trail group because in the summer of 2020 they sent out virtue-signaling nonsense about blacks’ access to the outdoor areas; I asked the president who mass-mailed the message if he’d ever gone to locations x, y. or z (within the scope of our coverage). These places are teeming with blacks in the summer, and were designed to do so (to serve people from the north end of NYC).
I don’t see many backpacking or hiking, but I see many of them in the summer camps and at the pools/beaches; I suspect the author of the letter just never actually visited them.
How can that be as they are in all of the commercials?