The racial grievance left’s crazy train picking up speed(Choo Choo!)

americanthinker.com ^ | 8/30/2016 | Richard Miniter

[rktman]

A woman by the name of Nina Revoyr had an op-ed in the Los Angeles Times on Sunday entitled “What’s missing when you hike the California backcountry? People of color.” Here, But it’s better entitled “Climbing Aboard The Crazy Train.”

Because Nina believes (or says she believes) that one reason that “people of color” are not well represented in the hiking and camping community is that:

For many, the wilderness, historically, is dangerous territory. Escaped slaves passed through forests full of danger …

Of course, a scholar might ask if anybody anywhere at any time in all the immense body of literature recording the black experience in America ever noted a tendency on the part of black parents to pass on a fear of the forests.

But scholarship hasn’t very much attraction to race-baiters like Ms. Revoyr, who’ll seize upon any silliness to illustrate how steeped in hatred America is even to the point of reformulating Congressman Alcee Hastings’s wacko idea that national parks are racist because blacks were once lynched from trees and there are any number of trees in those parks (see the Frontpage Magazine article here).

[kearnyirish2]

Here along the NJ/NY border the parks generally don’t offer much in amenities; no problem if you like nature but not something that attracts people looking for someone to tend to their every need. Basically once you get away from the parking areas it becomes very white and Asian (hordes of them come in vans to pick berries and such - I’m truly impressed by how some older ones hump pretty far into the woods).

[kearnyirish2]

The “leaders” make money; the herd simply boils in their growing inferiority complexes. Any minorities/women pushing this nonsense have already given up any pretext of equality; they know they can’t compete (by their own admission).