Hispanics visit when they're checking their pot plants .......... On May 17, 2016 3:13 PM, "plainolamerican" <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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. They show us that life is pure and simple >> in ways that defy the convoluted nonsense of political correctness. >> >> It’s not hard to see why the left, despite its hollow environmental >> posturing, hates them. >> >> >> <http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/FromNyToIsraelSultanRevealsTheStoriesBehindTheNews?a=LacixjPjYLM:emwRePBaddE:yIl2AUoC8zA> >> <http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/FromNyToIsraelSultanRevealsTheStoriesBehindTheNews?a=LacixjPjYLM:emwRePBaddE:I9og5sOYxJI> >> <http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/FromNyToIsraelSultanRevealsTheStoriesBehindTheNews?a=LacixjPjYLM:emwRePBaddE:63t7Ie-LG7Y> >> <http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/FromNyToIsraelSultanRevealsTheStoriesBehindTheNews?a=LacixjPjYLM:emwRePBaddE:F7zBnMyn0Lo> >> <http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/FromNyToIsraelSultanRevealsTheStoriesBehindTheNews?a=LacixjPjYLM:emwRePBaddE:UT3xtbGYFzA> >> <http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/FromNyToIsraelSultanRevealsTheStoriesBehindTheNews?a=LacixjPjYLM:emwRePBaddE:qj6IDK7rITs> >> >> >> >> >> >> Email delivery powered by Google >> >> Google Inc., 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, United >> States >> >> >> >> >> __._,_.___ >> ------------------------------ >> Posted by: "Beowulf" <[email protected]> >> ------------------------------ >> >> >> Visit Your Group >> <https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/grendelreport/info;_ylc=X3oDMTJmNzN0ZGwxBF9TAzk3MzU5NzE0BGdycElkAzIwMTk0ODA2BGdycHNwSWQDMTcwNTMyMzY2NwRzZWMDdnRsBHNsawN2Z2hwBHN0aW1lAzE0NjM1MTI1ODI-> >> >> >> [image: Yahoo! 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