Monday, July 13, 2015

NewsMachete: Liberals blame slack black park attendance on white racism - Afraid of the notorious Yosemite KKK?


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A threatening 'white space'?

Liberals blame slack black park attendance on white racism

Have you ever gone to a national park, and noticed that minorities are not represented in the exact proportions to the general population? Well, the New York Times certainly has! (Can't you imagine a Times reporter getting out of his car in Yosemite, and the first thing he notices is not the breathless beauty around him but the race of the other people in the parking lot?)

The national parks attracted a record 292.8 million visitors in 2014, but a vast majority were white and aging. The most recent survey... found that 22 percent of visitors were minorities, though they make up some 37 percent of the population.

That's a gap of 15%! If there is a racial disparity in any education, job function or even hobby, racism must be involved, says the New York Times. (Not including, of course, racial disparity in the reporting staff, editorial staff, or owners of the New York Times.)

A neighbor, Carla DeRise, has been to Mount Rainier and other parks, and is game to go again. She just can’t get any of her friends to come along. They are worried about unfriendly white people, hungry critters and insects, and unforgiving landscapes, said Ms. DeRise, 51, an African-American. So she mainly hikes alone, albeit with some anxiety. “I don’t have a weapon,” she quipped. “Yet.”

You see? Black people don't go to national parks for fear of white people. The liberal's racism in this is double fold. First, for caricaturing blacks as being fearful of whites (most aren't). And secondly, by perpetuating racial resentment and hatred by writing about one paranoid black woman who feels she needs a weapon to be safe around white people. We know, of course, statistically speaking, that black people are much safer living among white people than other black people. ...

     Gets worse than this article covers: (1) There are actually federal grants that, in effect, pay minorities to attend our National Parks; (2) Even some minorities who might not feel threatened, are said to feel uncomfortable about being in a 'white space.' No offense, but what kind of a pea-brain stands on top of a 13 hundred-foot 93 million-year-old rock and worries over what race created the park it sits in?

     I suspect this is yet another inherent racial deference, which cannot be reformed by clueless egalitarian governments. People of European heritage are a hunter-gatherer people of northern and temperate forests and we tend to assume all humans experience this wondrous grander when seeing a sunset at Half Dome or the Grand Canyon. Sadly, probably not.