Posted on 12/20/2017 12:16:24 AM PST by Oshkalaboomboom
A row of 'racist' trees standing between an African-American neighborhood and a city golf course will be removed, local officials in Palm Springs, California, told neighborhood residents.
On Sunday, Palm Springs Mayor Robert Moon told residents of the historically black Crossley Tract neighborhood that the city would remove the line of tamarisk trees and a chain link fence that runs between the neighborhood and the Tahquitz Creek Golf Course, reports the Desert Sun.
The decision to remove the trees and fence comes after neighborhood residents complained that the 50-foot tall tamarisk trees — an invasive species that blocks views of both the golf course and the San Jacinto mountains — have been lowering property values for decades.
Additionally, many of the neighborhood residents, the Desert Sun reported, believe that the tamarisk trees were planted in the 1960s as a way to purposely segregate the African-American Crossley Tract residents from the predominantly wealthy white golf players.
The Crossley Tract was founded in 1956 by Palm Springs' first African-American resident, Lawrence Crossley, at a time when black people who worked in Palm Springs were banned from living in the city.
The 10-acre Crossley Tract was intended to be a place where the black families denied housing within city limits could live. The tract has since been incorporated into Palm Springs.
Ground was broken on the Tahquitz Creek Golf Course in 1958 and the tamarisk trees were planed along the east side of the 14th fairway in the mid-1960s. They were not planted anywhere else on the course.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
...an invasive species that blocks views of both the golf course and the San Jacinto mountains...
You live in a desert! Nothing grows there! Every tree is an invasive species.
Paraphrased from Sam Kinison:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P0q4o58pKwA
The old trees are illegal aliens. They are being replaced by American trees. Liberal logic.
Will the golf balls be called “racist,” too?
Well, yeah...they are 99% white....
“50-foot-tall ‘racist’ trees planted in the 1960s”
Radicalized by the black inferiorists who were raised to hate them.
Why are you lumping all Californians into this?
It would seem it would be the gimme dat blacks of the 10 acre commune that are crying foul here. Like always, the petty blacks will get their way while the taxpayer foots the bill to have the trees removed.
Not if you are the Government. Easy as falling off a tree log.
Oops! I forgot about the double standard. ;-)
The decision to remove the golf course and golfers comes after neighborhood residents complained that the annoying golfers would always be looking at them in their houses as they ride by in their golf carts.
“their houses are being hit with golf balls”
Make that white racist enTitleist golf balls
Irrelevant. You just need one female or Progressive judge and the permitting process can be safely ignored for the causes of Social Justice... for example, killing racist trees.
Hmmm.... I would have thought the invasion of queers was the primary factor lowering property values
No, but they do have white privilege.
Next it’ll be racist that golf is not free.
More likely, the last line below is why the city agreed to remove those old trees.
“...The tamarisk tree has small scale like leaves and small branches which give the tree a pine-like appearance. During the heat of the day the tamarisk secretes salt, a process very wasteful of water.”
Well, they're working on that one, but meeting some resistance...:)
So it’s the trees lowering property values? Message to wacko environmentalists: Even you take a back seat when the favored groups speak up these days. Message to golfers: Start carrying in your golf bag.
Now racist golf balls will hit their houses.
CA is a big joke. Along with HI, it needs to secede and join Venezuela.
If they had planted BLACK WALNUT trees there would be no problem.
Your story does not match the party line. We will have to turn you into the Stasi.
There may be legitimate reasons to not want tamarisk trees/bushes: http://www.discovermoab.com/tamarisk.htm but calling the plant racist is really weird.
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