Crossley wasn’t a black neighborhood then. I grew up in Palm Springs. Those supporting this are not natives.
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.
This is SO stupid! Date palms were planted everywhere back then, and salt cedars were planted as windbreaks. You can see the trees around the Desert Palms Inn in the movie ‘Palm Springs Weekend’ from 1963. This is like those idiots who insist that the La Plaza Hotel was a brothel: the story is more important than the truth.