I think camping has a bad connotation for many black people because they think of old times when runaway slaves were camping out in the woods running away from the slave catchers. They also think of the Rosewood massacre when blacks had to camp out in the woods to escape the Klu Klux Klan. I think it is history that has taken the joy out of camping for them.
That’s pretty much what the guy, Larry Harvey said in the interview. Camping is something you do when you HAVE to do it, not something you would go out and do for fun.
I think it’s more that campers need to exercise a degree of self reliance, discipline, and intelligence. When camping, you need to be able to start and maintain a camp fire without burning yourself, figure out how to cook your own food over a fire (instead of relying on Mcdonald to feed you) and how to find your way through the woods back to your car without getting lost.