National Park Service Deputy Director Claims Black People aren't visiting national parks Because of Slavery www.frontpagemag.com/point/179486/
“African American people feel safe in cities and less safe in nature,” says Fearn, who is black. “Preserving wild places is a white concept, going back to Rome.”
Parks are big spaces full of trees, ... Contending that black people aren't visiting national parks because of slavery
Some things just make you want to throw up your hands and move to a small shack in the woods far from civilization. Unfortunately that's racist.
Mickey Fearn was named the National Park Service Deputy Director for Communications and Community Assistance because the Park Service decided that it needed to reach out to minorities who weren't visiting national parks often enough. Or as the NPS tactfully put it, the "revised title for the deputy position emphasizes a new focus on specific outreach and communications to groups currently underrepresented in parks."
How a group can be underrepresented in parks is unclear. Parks are big spaces full of trees, waterfalls and bears. Bears might be underrepresented in parks because they live there. People can be underrepresented in the park service, but not in parks.
Fearn, appointed to get black people to visit national parks, had the background you would expect from a race card user, a bunch of community groups and eventually manager of the City of Seattle’s Race and Social Justice Initiative. With that resume, Fearn began talking the usual "our stories" narrative in which the lack of black visitors to national parks emphasizes some deep national flaw of racism.
Here is one unexpected reason: The wilderness evokes some grisly images from American history — black slaves being hanged and lynched by their masters.
Some things just make you want to throw up your hands and move to a small shack in the woods far from civilization. Unfortunately that's racist.
Mickey Fearn was named the National Park Service Deputy Director for Communications and Community Assistance because the Park Service decided that it needed to reach out to minorities who weren't visiting national parks often enough. Or as the NPS tactfully put it, the "revised title for the deputy position emphasizes a new focus on specific outreach and communications to groups currently underrepresented in parks."
How a group can be underrepresented in parks is unclear. Parks are big spaces full of trees, waterfalls and bears. Bears might be underrepresented in parks because they live there. People can be underrepresented in the park service, but not in parks.
Fearn, appointed to get black people to visit national parks, had the background you would expect from a race card user, a bunch of community groups and eventually manager of the City of Seattle’s Race and Social Justice Initiative. With that resume, Fearn began talking the usual "our stories" narrative in which the lack of black visitors to national parks emphasizes some deep national flaw of racism.
Here is one unexpected reason: The wilderness evokes some grisly images from American history — black slaves being hanged and lynched by their masters.
THAT BEING SAID.........LYNCHED.........ISN'T OUR ATTORNEY GENERAL A BLACK WOMAN WITH THE NAME "LYNCH" ? WOULDN'T JUST UTTERING HER NAME MAKE THEM THINK OF SLAVERY AND BEING HUNG ? OR,... DOES THIS ONLY WORK WHEN IT COMES OUT IN BLACKS FAVOR ???
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