claimed that black people don’t visit national parks because they associate them with slaves being lynched by their masters. --- I heard an interview with a park ranger in AZ who said that hispanics don't frequent the park because they feel unwelcome.
you can't fix stupid or minorities with bad self-esteem. On Tuesday, May 17, 2016 at 2:59:11 PM UTC-5, Travis wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > Daniel Greenfield's article: Our Racist Trees > <http://sultanknish.blogspot.com/> > > [image: Link to Sultan Knish] <http://sultanknish.blogspot.com/> > ------------------------------ > > Posted: 16 May 2016 07:18 PM PDT > > Mickey Fearn, the National Park Service Deputy Director for Communications > and Community Assistance, made headlines when he claimed that black people > don’t visit national parks because they associate them with slaves being > lynched by their masters. > > > <https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-u6jt2qevUTk/Vzp-pnGCkZI/AAAAAAAAPyQ/d2oRcv1zXU8w93xobLpPFQqwzdF-QGoZgCLcB/s1600/ents.jpg>Yellowstone, > > the first national park, was created in 1872 in Wyoming. Slavery was over > by then and no one had ever been lynching slaves around Old Faithful > anyway. But false claims die very hard. > > Now Alcee Hastings, an impeached judge, and a coalition of minority groups > is demanding increased “inclusiveness” at national parks. High on their > list is the claim that, “African-Americans have felt unwelcome and even > fearful in federal parklands during our nation’s history because of the > horrors of lynching.” What do national parks have to do with lynchings? > Many national parks have trees. People were hung from trees. It’s guilt by > arboreal association. > > The origin of the bizarre racist lynching theory of national parks appears > to be Carolyn Finney. Finney was an actress noted for, apparently, little > more than an appearance in The Nutt House. Then she became a cause célèbre > for race activists when she was denied tenure by Berkeley’s Department of > Environmental Science, Policy, and Management because her work didn’t meet > academic standards. > > Her supporters blamed racism, rather than her academic shortcomings, and > protested vocally. > > These days she’s a diversity advisor to the U.S. National Parks Advisory > Board. What wasn’t good enough for UC Berkeley is good enough for national > parks. She is also the author of Black Faces, White Spaces. In it she > claims that “oppression and violence against black people in forests and > other green spaces can translate into contemporary understandings that > constrain African-American environmental understandings.” > > Finney cites the work of Joy DeGruy Leary who invented a Post Traumatic > Slave Syndrome that she claims black people suffer from. Affected by PTSS, > black people experience “fear and mistrust of forests and other green > spaces.” According to Finney, the tree is a racist symbol to black people. > > “Black people also wanted to go out in the woods and eat apples from the > trees,” Finney explains.” But black people were lynched on the trees. The > tree became a big symbol.” Black people are triggered by trees and suffer > Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome flashbacks. You can’t expect them to go to on > a hike. > > What shall we do about the racist trees? Finney is front and center at the > new “inclusion” initiative, “You’re sitting here making up a rule and > assuming that everybody is going to feel comfortable to come to the woods > and go on a hike,” she whined. “Maybe they’re not interested in doing that, > that’s not how they like to come to the woods.” > > In addition to complaining about the racist trees, the inclusion > initiative also claimed that national parks alienate Latinos because of the > “color of the uniforms that rangers wear.” > > What’s wrong with the color of park ranger uniforms? According to the > Hispanic Access Foundation, they look too much like the border patrol. Even > though the uniforms are actually completely different. But much like the > lack of lynchings at Yellowstone National Park, the truth doesn’t matter > here. > > None of this is really about the nonsensical pseudoscientific ravings you > just read. National parks don’t care what race you are. Trees are as blind > to color as they are to everything else. Forests don’t need to be made more > inclusive. This campaign is led by people who hate and reject natural > spaces. > > Finney claims that Theodore Roosevelt’s vision of preserving beautiful > natural landscapes was rooted in “privilege”. Or as Fearn put it, > “Preserving wild places is a white concept, going back to Rome.” > > Influential figures in the National Park Service reject the fundamental > idea of preserving natural beauty. They view a forest as a “white concept” > full of scary racist trees. Or at least that’s what they claim. > > That is what this is really about. The Obama era has rotted the Federal > government with radical figures who are at war with fundamental American > concepts and values. They intend to use their power to destroy those > concepts and values. This is another example of that same ugly phenomenon. > > Alcee Hastings complains of a “green ceiling” for hiring minorities. Aside > from the usual diversity hiring push and buying from minority businesses in > the “inclusiveness” proposals, not to mention nonsense about racist trees > and scary uniforms, is a move to divert the focus to urban development. > Then there’s the flow of money to “community organizations” to engage > “culturally diverse communities”. > > All that is code for robbing parks and moving the money into the same > network of corrupt organizations that already swallows all the money that > the Federal government can throw at its local projects. This isn’t > inclusiveness. It’s blackmail. Advertise in our publications. Give us > grants. Or your trees are racist. > > For all the safe space rhetoric, the arguments ultimately come down to > money. It’s not about racist tree symbolism or uniform colors. It’s about > creating positions for people like Carolyn Finney or Mickey Fearn so they > can lecture us on how parks are privilege and nature is racist. It’s about > finding yet another unlikely target for baseless claims of racism to be > milked for money, grants, ads and contracts. > > > <https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-9Qt3y_QbBdo/Vzp_LYN32XI/AAAAAAAAPyU/LWN0p8aFN2MMb9eLMRKjOu5lT16wfiJZQCLcB/s1600/e90cc611c198cde2543713ef26df2b3d.jpg> > > The Obama era has seen the “Sharptoning” of America as the same ugly > shakedown scams that were being practiced in New York or Chicago were > suddenly national policy. This is the Sharptoning of the National Park > Service. It’s happening in every agency and arm of government. We just > don’t notice it. > > The accusations are absurd. And yet the payoffs keep coming. And there’s > little doubt that this latest “inclusiveness” initiative will also pay off. > Our parks will suffer. Our slimiest politicians will prosper. > > Finney says that national parks should represent where we want to go > collectively as a people. But the beauty of a walk through the woods is > that you don’t have to “collectively” go anywhere. A hike is not a national > mission. It’s a place for individuality. And the left never fails to remind > us how it loathes the individual and worships the collective impulse of > totalitarian movements. This is paired with a hatred for beauty. > > Forests and lakes are not about where we want to go collectively. They are > where we once were. They represent spaces of imagination and reflection > that have nothing in common with Finney’s compulsion. They don’t have to > represent Finney’s demands for “demographic and ethnic diversity”. They > allow us a freedom from the confining urban spaces of leftist identity > politics that deny our humanity. 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