Now they're whining that our national parks are too white

[DigitalDrifter]

Lol !

Remember when America was a melting pot, and that was what we worked at maintaining.
Those days are long gone, and now everyone is a group and we have to treat each group differently. Fucking amazing.

Here’s why America’s national parks are so white

Many prospective visitors worry about park employees’ disparate treatment and implicit racial bias

“Why are our parks so white?” columnist Glenn Nelson asked in a recent op-ed in The New York Times. Nelson, who runs Trail Posse, an online platform that promotes diversity in the outdoors, explains that people of color are only about half as likely to visit national parks as whites. He offers two reasons for this disparity: People of color are less familiar with parks and therefore hesitant to go, and there is a lack of racial diversity among the nation’s park employees.

However, it is not just unfamiliarity with the parks that keeps people of color away. Many prospective visitors worry about disparate treatment by and implicit racial bias of park staffers. Nelson refers to jokes made by his road trip companions, including one in which they expected whites-only signs at the national park entrances. Unfortunately, those jokes are not that far from the truth. African-Americans are less likely to visit parks for fear of racist treatment by mostly white park rangers, gate agents and other park staffers. It is therefore critical to assess and eliminate these inherent biases that exclude people of color from outdoor public spaces.

According to a 2009 survey by the University of Wyoming and the National Park Service (NPS), whites accounted for 78 percent of the national parks’ visitors from 2008 to 2009; Hispanics, 9 percent; African-Americans, 7 percent; and Asian-Americans, 3 percent.

When compared with their share of the U.S. population, white park visitors are overrepresented by 14 percentage points, whereas African-Americans were underrepresented by 6 percentage points. Whites are overrepresented not only as visitors but also as park employees. According to a 2013 report by the nonprofit Partnership for Public Service, 80 percent of NPS employees were white. And the National Park Foundation’s 22-member board, whose mission is to support the NPS through fundraising, has only four minorities.

Here s Why America s National Parks Are So White Al Jazeera America

 

[Mac1958]

Too funny.

This is what happens when you create and nurture an environment of hypersensitivity and grievance.

Divide, divide, divide.

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[Claudette]

Yup. Your not just an American amy more.

 

[dannyboys]

So let's make sure there are 13% negroes employed with the Parks Service right?
BUT lets make sure only 13% of Post Office employees are negro right? Instead of 70% right?
I mean we must be fair to all races right?

 

[bucs90]

Oh good friggin God.

Why are national parks so white? Because most are located in rural areas. Which are mostly white.

Plus...black culture. "Keepin it real" doesnt include visiting a park to admire nature. Thats Uncle Tom shit.

 

[Mac1958]

I mean we must be fair to all races right?

Oh hell no.

We're in "get whitey" mode right now.



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[The Irish Ram]

Black fathers need to locate all their kids, load them up in the old station wagon and take a road trip to Yellowstone.

Sharpton is now whining that global warming is racist. I guess because white people created the sun.........

 

[The Irish Ram]

Black fathers need to locate all their kids, load them up in the old station wagon and take a road trip to Yellowstone.

Sharpton is now whining that global warming is racist. I guess because white people created the sun.........

 

[The Irish Ram]

Black fathers need to locate all their kids, load them up in the old station wagon and take a road trip to Yellowstone.

Sharpton is now whining that global warming is racist. I guess because white people created the sun.........

 

[norwegen]

This leftist, groupthink pursuit of racial identity is everywhere. That's why, for example, a jury of peers is no longer a jury of Americans (or citizens of a particular state) but rather a "diverse" jury that can never satisfy the lefty idea of "peer," as some of the jurors will be white, some black, some Asian, etc.

 

[The Irish Ram]

Black fathers need to locate all their kids, load them up in the old station wagon and take a road trip to Yellowstone.

Sharpton is now whining that global warming is racist. I guess because white people created the sun.........

 

[MyFavoritePoster]

This leftist, groupthink pursuit of racial identity is everywhere. That's why, for example, a jury of peers is no longer a jury of Americans (or citizens of a particular state) but rather a "diverse" jury that can never satisfy the lefty idea of "peer," as some of the jurors will be white, some black, some Asian, etc.

You left out the contingency of 'dumb'. I sat on a jury recently that didn't know that testimony is evidence. They thought evidence is video and audio recording only.

 

[Eric Arthur Blair]

Racially centered leftist idiocy is a natural resource we will never lack, unfortunately. What can you expect from a source who runs something called
Trail Posse?

No one is standing in front of Yosemite sending the black people away.