Govt Spends $100K to Figure Out Why Black People Don’t Go to Parks
17th August 2016
What business is that of the government?
“Of the many challenges facing the NPS in the 21st century, the lack of ethnic and racial diversity among the visiting population may be the most critical,” the NPS said in a grant announcement posted on the government’s grant website Wednesday.
Perhaps without ‘ethnic and racial diversity’ we’ll have more forest fires? This makes no sense.
White people are twice as likely to visit parks as black people, the document states. Park visitors are predominately white, and minorities make up only 22 percent of park visitors, even though minorities make up 37 percent of the U.S. population, according to research conducted by the NPS in 2008 and 2009.
Maybe the don’t like tramping around in the woods. Maybe somebody ought to ask some black people and find out why they’re not conforming to the SWPL ideal.
U.S. parks reflect America’s racist roots, according to KangJae Lee, assistant teaching professor at the University of Missouri.
There you have it. Blacks don’t go tramping around in the woods because white people are racist. It’s all clear to me now.