Posted on 05/25/2008 12:13:46 PM PDT by anymouse
I'm sure Martin Luther King Jr. is elated by this great step forward in civil rights.
If it is a verifiable fact that most campers are white, how on Earth is it a stereotype?
My wife and I have always investing in camping adventures at $79 per night (either Holiday Inn or Courtyard), and you never have to rinse off the points or re-fold them when you get caught in the rain. Just a different life-style, I guess.
Well, that explains at least part of this. Most of the time it is families who tend to go out camping, and blacks have a lower amount of family units relative to whites due to their higher out of wedlock birthrates and of course divorce, which affects all races.
“Walk around a campground filled with black people and it’s a lot like being in a campground filled with whites”
And I wonder why they think it wouldn’t it be like this?
If I were a hip-hop rapper dude, for example, I probably wouldn't want to be labeled a 'camper.'
And what's with the label 'camper,' anyway - will we now have a 'camper' voting demographic?
This could only have come from the 'label conscious liberal.' (Oh no! - more labels...)
I did a great deal of serious backpacking when I was a Boy Scout, but as an adult I also found myself preferring to camp out in hotels (three-star minimum).
A site i frequent...it’s truth...occasional acceptances....... www.trailjournals.com
Can't we all just get along?
“”As far as I’m concerned it’s a major issue,” said Johnson. “As the so-called browning of America goes on, if black people and other people of color aren’t visiting campgrounds and parks, how is the National Park Service going to reach the public in the future?””
They could rotate folks in public housing through campgrounds a couple weeks a year. How about paying people to visit the parks?
Sometimes I think that the government just doesn’t care about this issue.
I have a black friend who defines “camping” as anyplace that doesn’t have cable. He regularly tells me I’m crazy for enjoying that sort of thing.
What a weird statement. I can't quite decide if it's due to amazement on the part of the writer or what. And those unfortunate folks camping in their "Katrina-style" trailers ... who's stereotyping whom, here?
He regularly tells me I’m crazy for enjoying that sort of thing.
been told that a million times.
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I guess that depends on where you live. Most of my black friends and acquaintances have numerous extended family that they see often. They’re not all far-flung like many of my white friends’ families are. Sunday dinners with several generations together, sisters traveling on girl tripos, shopping, lots of cousins to grow up with and play with. They all have a dozen aunties and uncles that were part of the close family. Before she retired, one of my coworkers didn’t pass a week without a family member stopping by to say hi (at work.) When I think of close families, I often think of the black families I know.
You should tell him that his TV watching is making him crazy.
What are they babbling about? I’ve seen lots of black campers. I’ve been camping and fishing with black friends and they enjoy roughing it (within reason of course) just like us white folks. No motor-homes or trailers involved.
I was just going by the statistics(not sure from where) I heard on the radio a while back regarding broken families and out of wedlock childbirths.
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