You can’t make this stuff up. It’s just too bizarre and perverted. However, the National Park Service Deputy Director for Communications and Community Assistance, Mickey Fearn, told the world that black people don’t visit our national parks because there are trees there and those trees remind them of lynchings – this according to Sultan Knish on his website.
The United State’s first national park was Yellowstone. It opened in 1872, a few years after the Emancipation Proclamation. Not that some lynchings of black people didn’t happen after the Proclamation but I doubt there were many in our national parks. So, it must be the trees that some within the administration of the National Park Service find offensive. That presents a real problem.
According to Knish, the origins of such nonsense came from a person who was denied tenure at U Cal Berkeley and this was because of racism, she claims, not failure to achieve according to academic standards of the university. Knish writes of Carolyn Finney: “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.” Yessiree Bub! You betcha!
If Finney, and evidently Fearn, are representative of the direction the National Park Service is headed and the goals they intend to achieve, one has to seriously consider whether such below-the-dung-heap, brainless and perverted idiots should be part of any proposed national park or national monument like the ones being pushed in Maine. Why do we allow our tax dollars to be spent on such programs and the representatives of them?
While most of the debate in Maine has been whether or not the local residents want a national park in their back yards and whether it actually would hurt or help the economy, to this point I haven’t heard much talk about the psychological make-up of members of the administration of the National Park Service. I certainly hope others see such beliefs as far from normal.
We also know that President Obama appointed Roxanne Quimby, the individual who owns the land that she is determined to either make into a national park or a national monument, to the Board of Directors of the National Park Foundation.
Certainly I’m not remotely suggesting that Roxanne Quimby, because she wants a national park in Maine, is a racist or promotes the insanity of the individuals calling the existence of trees racism. One would have to be totally lacking in any brain matter at all to think that the establishment or existence of a national park, or any park for that matter, is somehow racially connected. What should come into question however, is the mental stability, along with real racism that may exist with the administrative structure of the National Park Service/Foundation.
It is one thing to call out legitimate racial issues and expose them for all the right and proper reasons. This is utter nonsense, that if brought to the forefront of any kind of discussions on race only a short time ago, would have resulted in straight jackets and institutionalization. Anyone who sees a tree as a threat to them due to “white privilege” and racism, don’t need education in racism, they need to be immediately removed from their influences within the National Park Service…for starters.
Knish further writes: “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.”
So what are we supposed to do with all the trees – at least those big enough to hang a person from? This, I’m sure, if agreed upon by the U.S. Government, should result in the immediate destruction of all trees and anything that tree might remind a sufferer of this syndrome of.
Knish further expounds of the diversion tactic of this nonsense in order to continue the “Shartoning” of this nation, i.e. destroying the national parks in order to deflect the money from “racist” parks to prop up more racial programs – the likes of which Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson have made a living. I’ll let readers decide on that one.
Regardless of the desire for results of those whackos who make such absurd statements, they are representatives of the National Park Service. Shouldn’t it be for that reason alone, the State of Maine, and any other state, should do whatever is necessary to make sure that a United States Government that appoints/allows people who say and do insane things, has no further holding and control over them.
If nothing else, Roxanne Quimby and her representatives, should publicly denounce such extremists statements, demanding that these people no longer have influence over the National Park Service. If that is not sincerely done, then Quimby should resign her position on the board of directors.
If not, then what are we left to think?
