Professors identify 960 ‘racist’ names in national park system

The College Fix ^ | MAY 10, 2022 | RACHEL LALGIE

[artichokegrower]

A group of professors and researchers identified 960 places within 16 of the country’s 62 national parks that contain “racist” names that promote “white supremacy,” “racism,” “settler colonialism” or “anti-Indigenous ideologies.”

[M Kehoe]

F’em.

I did not do BCT at Ft. Wanaka.

I did not serve at Ft. Milk.

I did not serve at FOB 0bama.

Bunch of poofters.

5.56mm

[Soul of the South]

The article summarizes the report.

Here is a link to the actual published report which is much more specific about the names the researchers found offensive:

https://besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/pan3.10302

The report was published in the “People and Nature”, a publication of the British Ecological Society. Since the report pertained to US National Parks, why wasn’t it published in the United States?

Also of interest the research was funded by the David H. Smith Conservation Fellowship Program at Duke University. Here is a link: https://researchfunding.duke.edu/david-h-smith-conservation-research-fellowship-program

The funding of the fellowships comes from the Cedar Tree Foundation. Link: https://cedartreefound.org/who-we-are

Of interest the Cedar Tree Foundation grants were given to support local conservation issues when David Smith, the benefactor was living. After his death the foundation began supporting environmental justice, environmental health, and other leftist causes.

So many foundations are coopted by leftist administrators one the wealthy benefactor dies, and the foundation funds are diverted to social justice causes, and not the mission envisioned by the foundation benefactor. Perhaps it is time to reform foundations. One obvious reform is to eliminate the tax free status of foundations. The second is to have a sunset provision so foundations are not a perpetual source of funding. Require foundations to spend all of their funds within 20 years of founding. The funds must be spent on specific projects, directly pertaining to the mission stated by the original benefactor, not simply rolled over to another foundation. At the end of the 20 year period, the foundation funds must be completely dispersed and the organization terminated.

[ytrebil]

Does anyone ever go black water rafting? Asking for a friend...

A friend of mine wants to know why your friend wants to know that.

[Allegra]

Those people are mentally ill.

[taxcontrol]

Withlacoochee / Apalachicola / Anadarko place names that just role off the tongue. /sarc

[2nd Amendment]

Old Faithful has to be changed to young infidelity

[Verginius Rufus]

Crater Lake needs to be renamed because Judge Crater was a white guy?

Teddy Roosevelt was truly amazing. Evidently he was responsible for Yellowstone National Park (made a national park when he was 13 or 14 years old).

[alexander_busek]

It doesn’t name names. It just describes names that might be changed.

Well, me and my friends here at Dumb Swede Springs sure are relieved to hear that!

Regards,

[JimRed]

A group of professors and researchers useless academics identified 960 places within 16 of the country’s 62 national parks that contain “racist” names that promote “white supremacy,” “racism,” “settler colonialism” or “anti-Indigenous ideologies.”

ACADEMIC (ak-uh-DEM-ik): An individual educated beyond his intelligence who is unwilling or unable to create or provide anything of value to others, who while hiding out in a think-tank, college or university pontificates and expects to be paid for it, usually from public funds.

[Trillian]

They need to get a life and an actual job.

[SJackson]

Outdoors/Rural/wildlife/hunting/hiking/backpacking/National Parks/animals list please FR mail me to be on or off . And ping me is you see articles of interest.

[refreshed]

Professors apparently have too much time on their hands.

[metmom]

The researchers wrote that “white hegemonic symbols embedded in parks can contribute to a perception that white people are the primary stewards and knowledge keepers of nature” and as a result make racial minorities feel excluded. “Black people are 13% of the US population yet they are only 1% of US national park visitors, while white people are 76% of the US population and 96% of visitors,” the paper noted.

So?

What so they propose? Forcing blacks to go to national parks?