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America's national parks face an existential crisis over race

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Alter Ego / Devil's Advocate: Yes, this is for real -- otherwise it would be funny. You actually have to keep looking up at the logo and URL to reassure yourself that it's not a satirical parody site. The US has become a "Twilight Zone" episode -- you wake up and find a country that is literally being managed by crackpots from top to bottom (not just in the wisecracking vein), taking orders from vigilante mobs.

No non-suspect information sources, since even scientists and the secular community have lost their marbles to race conspiracy and the Church of Woke, swallowing and conforming to invented propaganda like it was facts found underneath a rock. (As if the non-STEM social sciences haven't been co-opted by humanities preaching for some time.) Now you get the sense of how easily science obliged the complaints of the [Christian] Church in its early vulnerable days, and conformed to Nazi and communist regimes, and gets bought out by business in a capitalist context.

Needless to say, the counterculture to the Establishment is at the height of its impotency. It's become a useless prop hijacked by a doddering old man with the juvenile mind of a 12-year old, who surrounds himself with lame sycophants -- reminiscent of the myth of Nero fiddling while Rome burned. Everybody else is superficial, corporeal appearances in his solipsistic world-fantasy, no psychological interiors to them that can be harmed or feel pain.


https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/americas...d=71528972

EXCERPT: As millions of Americans escape home quarantine to the great outdoors this summer, they'll venture into parks, campgrounds and forest lands that remain stubborn bastions of self-segregation. "The outdoors and public lands suffer from the same systemic racism that the rest of our society does," said Joel Pannell, associate director of the Sierra Club, which is leading an effort to boost diversity in the wilderness and access to natural spaces.

New government data, shared first with ABC News, shows the country's premier outdoor spaces -- the 419 national parks -- remain overwhelmingly white. Just 23% of visitors to the parks were people of color, the National Park Service found in its most recent 10-year survey; 77% were white. Minorities make up 42% of the U.S. population.

"That tells me that we've got a lot of work to do," said David Vela, acting director of the National Park Service. The career park administrator, appointed by President Donald Trump to the post in 2017, is the first Latino to lead the agency.

Government officials and environmental advocates agree that the racial disparity in the outdoors is an existential crisis. "If we don't address this, and we don't see how all these things are interrelated, then we're going to risk losing everything," said Pannell. "You're not going to have public lands to enjoy."

The U.S. Census Bureau projects people of color will be a majority in America by 2044 -- a demographic shift that will impact park attendance and finances. Community advocates say physical and mental health for minority communities is also at risk. "I feel like nature is a right to everyone, and we should all feel safe enough to experience it," said Lauren Gay, a Tampa, Florida, mother who chronicles her experiences as a woman of color in the wilderness on her blog and podcast "Outdoorsy Diva."

"We need better ways to cope with stress, to cope with some level of trauma. We all have some level, honestly, of PTSD from a lot of the things we've lived through as people of color -- and nature is a way to do that," Gay said.

[...] The National Park Service has tried improving diversity in parks by marketing to non-white communities, training staff on racial sensitivity, and working to hire rangers from more diverse backgrounds. But despite the effort less than 20% of the 20,000 employees are non-white, the agency said... (MORE - details)

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Alter Ego / Devil's Advocate: Uh, since decades of efforts and progressive promises across the board (including the war on poverty) have fizzled -- or at least are proclaimed unsatisfactory -- ya' think maybe the problem could be the background theory dogma that's being used for interpretation -- i.e., the "systemic racism" conspiracy, etc? Rita Mae Brown: “Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again, but expecting different results.” --Sudden Death (1983) ... not Einstein!

This is the 21st-century, not 1830. Maybe it's time to actually employ neutral science that is not sacredly tethered to offshoot templates of Marxist BS that was adapted in the 1960s from original class struggle context to social crusader purposes.
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Syne Offline
Luckily, it's really only a very vocal minority that comprise the insane woke. The media loves chaos, fear, and the sensational, so we just hear about it so much we falsely perceive it to be more prominent. Much like the depiction of blacks or gays in movies and TV gives us a skewed sense of their percent of the population. Sadly, businesses and politicians are not immune to that false perception. The media is wagging the dog here.

For that minority, this is what happens when you coddle and enable the insane and immature.
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