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The pigs shot and killed my grandmother in her canoe and no one investigated cause she was India. My Dad experienced cruel and unusual racism against him but he never gave up fishing and in his later years was considered the BEST fishing guide and guided the Vice President of the USA gov't. Then the pigs chased me around and finally \" hit\" my cabin and burnt it to the ground! Yeah I never saw any non white canoe/ camping or fishermen that weren't white. Luckily for nature not too many of them can take such isolation in nature or it would be trashed like the rest of North America is. WOW it only took a few hundred years for them to create a pig sty.", "TotalVotes": 0, "posVotes": 0, "negVotes": 0, "vote": "none", "sender": { "photoURL": "https://graph.facebook.com/v2.3/100002863011217/picture?type=square", "profileURL": "http://www.facebook.com/100002863011217", "name": "Bearhand HW Chosa", "isSelf": false, "loginProvider": "Facebook" }, "flagCount": 0, "highlightGroups": [], "edited": false, "timestamp": 1438356006602, "threadTimestamp": 1438356006602, "status": "published" }, { "ID": "c69f7f621bba4fe5bbcb9dc9204ed1de", "streamId": "7247982c-2536-4c44-a952-6988aade8eca1437602015190", "threadID": "", "isModerator": false, "commentText": "The \"inadvertent study of racial profiling\" that was carried out in one national park is not by any means indicative of the treatment received at all national park areas. The reported disparate treatment of the different female university professors visiting Yosemite National Park is not acceptable and I am sure not condoned in our national park areas. This study was nothing more than the game of \"gotcha\". It would have been interesting to see what would have happened had the individuals in the study gone through the normal legitimate process national parks have in place to waive entrance fees for educational and research purposes. I think that would have been a better outcome for those park visitors to Yosemite National Park.\r\n ", "TotalVotes": -1, "posVotes": 0, "negVotes": 1, "vote": "none", "sender": { "photoURL": "https://graph.facebook.com/v2.3/943648342344447/picture?type=square", "profileURL": "https://www.facebook.com/app_scoped_user_id/943648342344447/", "name": "Clark Dixon", "isSelf": false, "loginProvider": "Facebook" }, "flagCount": 0, "highlightGroups": [], "edited": false, "timestamp": 1438321200539, "threadTimestamp": 1438321200539, "status": "published" }, { "ID": "57498b16b794468d9cf9d4fe4bf9b16c", "streamId": "7247982c-2536-4c44-a952-6988aade8eca1437602015190", "threadID": "", "isModerator": false, "commentText": "There are enough instances of real racism in the US without dreaming up something with little foundation.", "TotalVotes": 0, "posVotes": 1, "negVotes": 1, "vote": "none", "sender": { "photoURL": "https://graph.facebook.com/v2.3/1782965645263542/picture?type=square", "profileURL": "https://www.facebook.com/app_scoped_user_id/1782965645263542/", "name": "James Morgan Bidmead", "isSelf": false, "loginProvider": "Facebook" }, "flagCount": 0, "highlightGroups": [], "edited": false, "timestamp": 1438297306701, "threadTimestamp": 1438297306701, "status": "published" }, { "ID": "9273f94bdd104e42b1d95976350a97fc", "streamId": "7247982c-2536-4c44-a952-6988aade8eca1437602015190", "threadID": "", "isModerator": false, "commentText": "I do not see how one piece of anecdotal evidence at one park entrance is indicative of widespread racism in the parks. And is only including the NPS even valid? Where I live the nearest national park to me, excluding Churches and battlefields is 437 miles away. I would have to pass dozens of State Parks on my way to there and those state parks have better facilities and more affordable entrance fees. In the visiting of NPS parks...I would bet that there are so many variables that would have to be considered in park visitation patterns that using race as the only one is invalid. I would bet that urban vs suburban vs rural statistics are even more relevant. ", "TotalVotes": 0, "posVotes": 1, "negVotes": 1, "vote": "none", "sender": { "photoURL": "https://graph.facebook.com/v2.3/1658514834360886/picture?type=square", "profileURL": "https://www.facebook.com/app_scoped_user_id/1658514834360886/", "name": "Joe McNair", "isSelf": false, "loginProvider": "Facebook" }, "flagCount": 0, "highlightGroups": [], "edited": false, "timestamp": 1438286056333, "threadTimestamp": 1438286056333, "status": "published" }, { "ID": "a40cc640d4b34af1a2432c1b4f701b84", "streamId": "7247982c-2536-4c44-a952-6988aade8eca1437602015190", "threadID": "", "isModerator": false, "commentText": "Please, don't insult us with \"lack of diversity\" with the employees. That is like me saying I wont board an airplane that is staffed with one race or another purely because of the RACE", "TotalVotes": 0, "posVotes": 0, "negVotes": 0, "vote": "none", "sender": { "photoURL": "https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-XdUIqdMkCWA/AAAAAAAAAAI/AAAAAAAAAAA/4252rscbv5M/photo.jpg?sz=50", "profileURL": "https://plus.google.com/111001292760048100406", "name": "Minerals Liberia", "isSelf": false, "loginProvider": "GooglePlus" }, "flagCount": 0, "highlightGroups": [], "edited": false, "timestamp": 1438129924190, "threadTimestamp": 1438129924190, "status": "published" }, { "ID": "8df59fb55f8c4f9d8e6f0036e17db1e8", "streamId": "7247982c-2536-4c44-a952-6988aade8eca1437602015190", "threadID": "", "isModerator": false, "commentText": "This is ridiculous. People of different racial backgrounds not wanting to visit parks because of fear of racism ?! Go out and see for yourself how awesome these places, and the people who run them, really are. Don't waste your time on this unfounded, demeaning article.", "TotalVotes": -1, "posVotes": 0, "negVotes": 1, "vote": "none", "sender": { "photoURL": "https://graph.facebook.com/v2.3/1474117771/picture?type=square", "profileURL": "http://www.facebook.com/1474117771", "name": "Dylan Buchanan", "isSelf": false, "loginProvider": "Facebook" }, "flagCount": 0, "highlightGroups": [], "edited": false, "timestamp": 1438116804067, "threadTimestamp": 1438116804067, "status": "published" }, { "ID": "1c0e7eb1f75340b1b7a4cfc9747e99e3", "streamId": "7247982c-2536-4c44-a952-6988aade8eca1437602015190", "threadID": "", "isModerator": false, "commentText": "There's an easy way to fix this Black people: Go enjoy our national park system. You don't know what your missing. \r\n\r\n Don't think about it, Just Go! Think about it later. \r\n\r\nToo much time wasting away reading news articles on the computer, not enough time away from the city.", "TotalVotes": 0, "posVotes": 1, "negVotes": 1, "vote": "none", "sender": { "photoURL": "https://apis.live.net/v5.0/448A3B8B6886140A/picture", "profileURL": "https://profile.live.com/", "name": "Len G", "isSelf": false, "loginProvider": "Messenger" }, "flagCount": 0, "highlightGroups": [], "edited": false, "timestamp": 1438020982908, "threadTimestamp": 1438020982908, "status": "published" }, { "ID": "f845d0d257a14b5da793c45ba5853691", "streamId": "7247982c-2536-4c44-a952-6988aade8eca1437602015190", "threadID": "", "isModerator": false, "commentText": "A confusion of a very rational probability analysis by the gate keepers with racism. A bunch of 21 year old kids would get the same response. Their are a few 21 year old Ph.D. level academics, but they are just rare and would attract attention for a claim of free admission. \r\n\r\nBlack academics are not rare in some of the social science/Hunanities departments, but they are very rare in the natural or physical sciences. Upon even initial conversations, the responses from social science academics (independent of race) would be different that from the natural or physical sciences that would be going to the research station. \r\n\r\nWere these Academics actual scientists of the type that would be going to a research station or just fake research scientists? They could just be measuring peoples understanding of nerd behavior and probabilities, where the low probability created a question and the response to that question created further questions. ", "TotalVotes": -1, "posVotes": 1, "negVotes": 2, "vote": "none", "sender": { "photoURL": "https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-XdUIqdMkCWA/AAAAAAAAAAI/AAAAAAAAAAA/4252rscbv5M/photo.jpg?sz=50", "profileURL": "https://plus.google.com/113011290699491587205", "name": "Dallas Weaver", "isSelf": false, "loginProvider": "GooglePlus" }, "flagCount": 0, "highlightGroups": [], "edited": false, "timestamp": 1438019207765, "threadTimestamp": 1438019207765, "status": "published" }, { "ID": "83f21c4ee2f447d5916702226ae4abe4", "streamId": "7247982c-2536-4c44-a952-6988aade8eca1437602015190", "threadID": "", "isModerator": false, "commentText": "This article has a point, admittedly, but it is thin on facts. Do we have a disparity in minority visitors to national parks? Absolutely. The problem is that a single case of racial bias by a single employee cannot be drawn out to indicate a systemic problem in a larger system. Really, the fact that the Park Service has launched an investigation is a indicator that they are taking the matter seriously.\r\n\r\nLets consider actual facts. The majority of minorities live in urban environments. Most urban areas are a moderate to far distance from major national parks, therefore getting to them can represent a decently expensive cost. Now economic data indicates that minorities are often worse off than whites in terms of household income, and in an era where even white \"middle class\" families struggle to vacation, we expect minorities to be surging in attendance?\r\n\r\nLets also consider that the article notes minorities have preconceived notions of how they will be treated at national parks. This is not factual data derived by experience in many cases. This bias is built on misconceptions and should not be relied on as a tenant that national parks are racist. I have a preconceived notion that going to the dentist is an unpleasant experience (a concept shared with millions of Americans) that said, it's not based on facts, and it's not true in all cases. Experience fixes this, and we need to encourage this perception (of parks) to be changed.", "TotalVotes": 2, "posVotes": 3, "negVotes": 1, "vote": "none", "sender": { "photoURL": "https://apis.live.net/v5.0/24FAC1EA2FD4504E/picture", "profileURL": "https://profile.live.com/", "name": "J W", "isSelf": false, "loginProvider": "Messenger" }, "flagCount": 0, "highlightGroups": [], "edited": false, "timestamp": 1438018527352, "threadTimestamp": 1438018527352, "status": "published" }, { "ID": "ad3d88bfae3f4ccf993ec1c2a78e82be", "streamId": "7247982c-2536-4c44-a952-6988aade8eca1437602015190", "threadID": "", "isModerator": false, "commentText": "WOW, I worked in the National Parks for twelve years, 6 of which I was a Park Ranger. I worked in Parks such as Yellowstone, Yosemite, and the Grand Canyon and many more. Call me naïve, but I never saw any racism and I am super sensitive to it, or shall I say opinionated against it. In fact I saw the opposite of racism but welcomed diversity. I couldn't help but smile and spend a little extra time with a African American family. Most rangers I worked with were open minded, laid back individuals who didn't suffer from societies hang ups. Nelson Mandela once stated \"I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.\". We cannot put the responsibility onto an innocent bystander just because someone fears the other might treat them wrong. If someone fears something, they are responsible for letting fear control them...no matter their race. ", "TotalVotes": 4, "posVotes": 4, "negVotes": 0, "vote": "none", "descendantsCount": 2, "sender": { "photoURL": "https://graph.facebook.com/v2.3/10152847229931685/picture?type=square", "profileURL": "https://www.facebook.com/app_scoped_user_id/10152847229931685/", "name": "Elizabeth Bailey", "isSelf": false, "loginProvider": "Facebook" }, "flagCount": 0, "replies": [ { "ID": "6368b21b99b5473a8ee52f626430c6da", "streamId": "7247982c-2536-4c44-a952-6988aade8eca1437602015190", "parentID": "ad3d88bfae3f4ccf993ec1c2a78e82be", "threadID": "ad3d88bfae3f4ccf993ec1c2a78e82be", "isModerator": false, "commentText": "I think the article is short on facts and long on conjecture. The author cites only a single example of an experience caused by one Park employee, and the rest of the data is based on studies of perception, not actual experiences.\r\n\r\nI have no doubt some people have had bad experiences. People of all races I'm sure have. That said, is there evidence in this article of a chronic racial problem in national parks? Hardly. Though there is evidence of massive socio-economic factors that are preventing minorities from having the interest/want and the ability to visit these parks.", "TotalVotes": -1, "posVotes": 0, "negVotes": 1, "vote": "none", "sender": { "photoURL": "https://apis.live.net/v5.0/24FAC1EA2FD4504E/picture", "profileURL": "https://profile.live.com/", "name": "J W", "isSelf": false, "loginProvider": "Messenger" }, "flagCount": 0, "highlightGroups": [], "edited": false, "timestamp": 1438018697901, "threadTimestamp": 0, "status": "published" }, { "ID": "7f32deecb1e2495fbbd88cda9447b00f", "streamId": "7247982c-2536-4c44-a952-6988aade8eca1437602015190", "parentID": "ad3d88bfae3f4ccf993ec1c2a78e82be", "threadID": "ad3d88bfae3f4ccf993ec1c2a78e82be", "isModerator": false, "commentText": "You are correct, Elizabeth. I've been working for the parks as a ranger for 12 years and only once did I experience racism, but it was off-duty and not directed towards a visitor. A coworker used the \"n\" word and was called out by several people, including myself. He was never rehired as a result. There was racism in the parks, but that was before the Civil Rights Act and there was racism everywhere. I am very open-minded and respectful of all races, religions, sexual-orientation, etc. Everyone is treated the same. ", "TotalVotes": -1, "posVotes": 0, "negVotes": 1, "vote": "none", "sender": { "photoURL": "https://graph.facebook.com/v2.3/1122491407778453/picture?type=square", "profileURL": "https://www.facebook.com/app_scoped_user_id/1122491407778453/", "name": "Holly Mills", "isSelf": false, "loginProvider": "Facebook" }, "flagCount": 0, "highlightGroups": [], "edited": false, "timestamp": 1438020653945, "threadTimestamp": 0, "status": "published" } ], "highlightGroups": [], "edited": false, "timestamp": 1438003941971, "threadTimestamp": 1438003941971, "status": "published" }, { "ID": "027fe187f5f145738c466f3661eca7ae", "streamId": "7247982c-2536-4c44-a952-6988aade8eca1437602015190", "threadID": "", "isModerator": false, "commentText": "In my 63 years, I have never even heard about any kind of racial issues having to do with national parks. Who is dreaming this stuff up?", "TotalVotes": 0, "posVotes": 1, "negVotes": 1, "vote": "none", "sender": { "photoURL": "https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-XdUIqdMkCWA/AAAAAAAAAAI/AAAAAAAAAAA/4252rscbv5M/photo.jpg?sz=50", "profileURL": "https://plus.google.com/104323109256440339360", "name": "William Webb", "isSelf": false, "loginProvider": "GooglePlus" }, "flagCount": 0, "highlightGroups": [], "edited": false, "timestamp": 1437921689147, "threadTimestamp": 1437921689147, "status": "published" }, { "ID": "8f89fb9d6d1b4b3f9d4f0d65db78684a", "streamId": "7247982c-2536-4c44-a952-6988aade8eca1437602015190", "threadID": "", "isModerator": false, "commentText": "I think it's more likely cultural difference. White people have been enjoying outdoor leisure activities for decades, black people usually enjoys competitive sports, like basketballs, baseballs, or watching them, and Asian people have no time for park visiting, because they are busy making money (business), or they think park visiting is not safe.\r\nI am an 57 years old Asian male. I go to nearby trails to rollerblade almost everyday. I have been trying to keep my body weight in normal range (BMI 22-23). Most of parks are safe. Let's enjoy them. ", "TotalVotes": 1, "posVotes": 1, "negVotes": 0, "vote": "none", "sender": { "photoURL": "https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-XdUIqdMkCWA/AAAAAAAAAAI/AAAAAAAAAAA/4252rscbv5M/photo.jpg?sz=50", "profileURL": "https://plus.google.com/116039348862488919749", "name": "Albert Haah", "isSelf": false, "loginProvider": "GooglePlus" }, "flagCount": 0, "highlightGroups": [], "edited": false, "timestamp": 1437876559192, "threadTimestamp": 1437876559192, "status": "published" }, { "ID": "22f3ebcaf8b64f47987972e8f8ce6331", "streamId": "7247982c-2536-4c44-a952-6988aade8eca1437602015190", "threadID": "", "isModerator": false, "commentText": "For those commenters that state minorities don't live near National Parks and therefore it's not that big of a deal, think again. How many people who live near National Parks are visiting from hours away, with the opportunity to see some of our amazing natural places in the U.S.? Location, in this case, has nothing to do with the presence or lack of presence by minorities. Try again. ", "TotalVotes": -1, "posVotes": 0, "negVotes": 1, "vote": "none", "sender": { "photoURL": "https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-XdUIqdMkCWA/AAAAAAAAAAI/AAAAAAAAAAA/4252rscbv5M/photo.jpg?sz=50", "profileURL": "https://plus.google.com/102747769344751324210", "name": "Dianne Robinson", "isSelf": false, "loginProvider": "GooglePlus" }, "flagCount": 0, "highlightGroups": [], "edited": false, "timestamp": 1437859955010, "threadTimestamp": 1437859955010, "status": "published" }, { "ID": "deea1ab5f96041618419d0d718b639ec", "streamId": "7247982c-2536-4c44-a952-6988aade8eca1437602015190", "threadID": "", "isModerator": false, "commentText": "Just an anecdote, perhaps providing insight: a black co-worker once asked me if it was safe for her and her husband to go to a park in the North Georgia mountains. She was keenly aware of the history there, where large and active KKK groups successfully drove most people of color out of the region between 1880 and 1950. She also knew I had worked a previous job in a town not far from the park and was familiar with the attitudes of the people in the region. I remembered the white co-workers who talked with pride of their daddies walking in the KKK parades, and who said there were no problems with race in America until MLK riled up the black people (they used a different descriptor), and who said the local sheriff ought to keep a tight rein on the few blacks left in town. I could not tell my co-worker she would feel either safe or welcome. This was the early 1990s. On recent trips to the mountains, I have noticed more black visitors, so maybe the climate has gotten better. I hope so.", "TotalVotes": 0, "posVotes": 0, "negVotes": 0, "vote": "none", "sender": { "photoURL": "https://graph.facebook.com/v2.3/1086318808048330/picture?type=square", "profileURL": "https://www.facebook.com/app_scoped_user_id/1086318808048330/", "name": "Mark Ralston", "isSelf": false, "loginProvider": "Facebook" }, "flagCount": 0, "highlightGroups": [], "edited": false, "timestamp": 1437859733045, "threadTimestamp": 1437859733045, "status": "published" }, { "ID": "5e288eb9fa9d418a9e795f054f45d585", "streamId": "7247982c-2536-4c44-a952-6988aade8eca1437602015190", "threadID": "", "isModerator": false, "commentText": "I just visited the Statue of Liberty in June. At least 50% or more of the visitors were Asian (Chinese & Indian) that day. I noticed most of the park employees were black. Yet, I did not notice many black visitors. I think it has nothing to do with racism and everything to do with what people prefer to do in their spare time.", "TotalVotes": 2, "posVotes": 2, "negVotes": 0, "vote": "none", "sender": { "photoURL": "https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-6jF1XTVGeTE/AAAAAAAAAAI/AAAAAAAAAEM/tXgKK9j_nug/photo.jpg?sz=50", "profileURL": "https://plus.google.com/105559510665100029689", "name": "Brian Sullivan", "isSelf": false, "loginProvider": "GooglePlus" }, "flagCount": 0, "highlightGroups": [], "edited": false, "timestamp": 1437854777200, "threadTimestamp": 1437854777200, "status": "published" }, { "ID": "3018ac1c82bc4160a5e1634c023d3df5", "streamId": "7247982c-2536-4c44-a952-6988aade8eca1437602015190", "threadID": "", "isModerator": false, "commentText": "Perhaps the racial disparity is nothing more than a disparity between urban dwellers and non-urban dwellers. And anyway, what is the problem if use of the parks follows cultural lines that also have racial tendencies? Ninety years ago Black people were the best tap dancers. Does that mean that America is not racist for not subsidizing tap dancing for White people? Why is it assumed to be racism if cultural patterns have a racial component? Is it wrong that in rural Central California, hypothetically, a high percentage of Buddhists over the age of 95 are Japanese who have worked in agriculture? ", "TotalVotes": 0, "posVotes": 0, "negVotes": 0, "vote": "none", "sender": { "photoURL": "https://graph.facebook.com/v2.3/100000745087447/picture?type=square", "profileURL": "http://www.facebook.com/100000745087447", "name": "John Dawson", "isSelf": false, "loginProvider": "Facebook" }, "flagCount": 0, "highlightGroups": [], "edited": false, "timestamp": 1437848580330, "threadTimestamp": 1437848580330, "status": "published" }, { "ID": "bfeb24bf6c7e450c802cde5175d8e25d", "streamId": "7247982c-2536-4c44-a952-6988aade8eca1437602015190", "threadID": "", "isModerator": false, "commentText": "Could it be as simple as black culture in America does not really care to visit state parks? Assuming that everyone wants to go, and then taking the race of the visitors of our parks, and then extrapolating a secret hidden racist agenda just makes you look like a tool. I dont go to hip hop concerts. Does that mean there is a racist and hidden agenda keeping me from going? Perhaps I just dont like hip hop. Is that a racist thing? I also dont attend country music festivals or concerts. Are cowboys being bigots and keeping me from attending?\r\nPeople who assume racism are, in fact, the biggest racists.", "TotalVotes": -1, "posVotes": 0, "negVotes": 1, "vote": "none", "sender": { "photoURL": "https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-YOUsld0xJ_g/AAAAAAAAAAI/AAAAAAAAARg/8eu-GWwLw4g/photo.jpg?sz=50", "profileURL": "https://plus.google.com/111843129852964269935", "name": "Christopher Lane", "isSelf": false, "loginProvider": "GooglePlus" }, "flagCount": 0, "highlightGroups": [], "edited": false, "timestamp": 1437840193244, "threadTimestamp": 1437840193244, "status": "published" }, { "ID": "18400b3ec8ef44a3a76c15bd07a092ef", "streamId": "7247982c-2536-4c44-a952-6988aade8eca1437602015190", "threadID": "", "isModerator": false, "commentText": "Here's the thing though: most national parks (and national forests) are in rural, mostly white areas. The black population is large in the South, as well as in a few Northern urban areas- and a few cities in California. Most national parks and forests aren't in areas where there are many black people, so that explains why there aren't many black park employees or visitors. Maybe you should think about something for more than two seconds before screaming racism. All you're doing is delegitimizing valid charges of racism with this nonsense.", "TotalVotes": 3, "posVotes": 4, "negVotes": 1, "vote": "none", "descendantsCount": 1, "sender": { "photoURL": "https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-XdUIqdMkCWA/AAAAAAAAAAI/AAAAAAAAAAA/4252rscbv5M/photo.jpg?sz=50", "profileURL": "https://plus.google.com/114232525496413526933", "name": "6236003 .", "isSelf": false, "loginProvider": "GooglePlus" }, "flagCount": 0, "replies": [ { "ID": "6bf4609b4b0b4a4d9d1f1f432b4c07a5", "streamId": "7247982c-2536-4c44-a952-6988aade8eca1437602015190", "parentID": "18400b3ec8ef44a3a76c15bd07a092ef", "threadID": "18400b3ec8ef44a3a76c15bd07a092ef", "isModerator": false, "commentText": "HAHAHAHA. We don't live in rural areas surrounding national parks? Yes, we do. Maybe not the majority of us, but we do. Stop perpetuating the concept that all Black people live in the city and/or the South. There are much more of us in rural areas than people like you want to admit.", "TotalVotes": 1, "posVotes": 2, "negVotes": 1, "vote": "none", "sender": { "photoURL": "https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-HqTNzmL8pXQ/AAAAAAAAAAI/AAAAAAAAAH4/mv0sBY9XU44/photo.jpg?sz=50", "profileURL": "https://plus.google.com/113147306464720027038", "name": "Dana Thompson", "isSelf": false, "loginProvider": "GooglePlus" }, "flagCount": 0, "highlightGroups": [], "edited": false, "timestamp": 1438003171519, "threadTimestamp": 0, "status": "published" } ], "highlightGroups": [], "edited": false, "timestamp": 1437774851639, "threadTimestamp": 1437774851639, "status": "published" }, { "ID": "bb8b8599b27f4244ba484d6331791e54", "streamId": "7247982c-2536-4c44-a952-6988aade8eca1437602015190", "threadID": "", "isModerator": false, "commentText": "One of the issues is that 30% of blacks are on public assistance and housing programs. Taxpayer funded housing is built within easy access to public transportation and services which are rarely located near wilderness and national or state parks.\r\n\r\nWe never went to national or state parks until we were adults and lived near one. As kids we didn't live near any, both our parents worked and they just weren't outdoors people. We also never went to summer camp or any kind of day camp because we simply couldn't afford it and my parents would not take handouts. It didn't destroy our world.\r\n\r\nIt is NOT the responsibility of the parks dept to institute racist hiring practices to see if they can induce more blacks to use the parks. The parks dept should be hiring the best qualified and recommended people they can get to provide the best service for ALL park users. Parks depts have to do a lot of rescue and law enforcement work. The LAST thing we need is to cut qualifications for people doing that kind of work.", "TotalVotes": -1, "posVotes": 1, "negVotes": 2, "vote": "none", "sender": { "photoURL": "https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-XdUIqdMkCWA/AAAAAAAAAAI/AAAAAAAAAAA/4252rscbv5M/photo.jpg?sz=50", "profileURL": "https://plus.google.com/117244651712948545881", "name": "Jozie Molody", "isSelf": false, "loginProvider": "GooglePlus" }, "flagCount": 0, "highlightGroups": [], "edited": false, "timestamp": 1437774500041, "threadTimestamp": 1437774500041, "status": "published" }, { "ID": "22cff4d7677c4608a2e3f02eb8a6f29c", "streamId": "7247982c-2536-4c44-a952-6988aade8eca1437602015190", "threadID": "", "isModerator": false, "commentText": "Not surprised. The other day at a city park on Lake Erie there were black kids on a fishing trip sponsored by the Cleveland Division of Police. One of the counselors told me that for some of these kids this was the first time they had seen the lake and they only live 5 miles away from it! I wonder if these kids even know what a National Park is. Sad state of affairs.", "TotalVotes": -1, "posVotes": 0, "negVotes": 1, "vote": "none", "sender": { "photoURL": "https://graph.facebook.com/v2.3/10203432478092211/picture?type=square", "profileURL": "https://www.facebook.com/app_scoped_user_id/10203432478092211/", "name": "Barry Koskie", "isSelf": false, "loginProvider": "Facebook" }, "flagCount": 0, "highlightGroups": [], "edited": false, "timestamp": 1437761233592, "threadTimestamp": 1437761233592, "status": "published" }, { "ID": "555231549c28491ca183499881512a2f", "streamId": "7247982c-2536-4c44-a952-6988aade8eca1437602015190", "threadID": "", "isModerator": false, "commentText": "Nothing is too ridiculous for someone to winkle it out and force it to be an issue of race. This makes the USA the most racist country on earth. I have never visited or lived in a country where race is such a national pastime, such an unhealthy preoccupation that instead if its intentions only serves to push people apart on issues which aren't even issues. (In the UK we have lots of minorities which actually are minorities, unlike in the USA where whites are no a minority versus non-whites.)", "TotalVotes": -1, "posVotes": 1, "negVotes": 2, "vote": "none", "sender": { "photoURL": "https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-jm07k4wQJwE/AAAAAAAAAAI/AAAAAAAABUM/AZclt48JgMI/photo.jpg?sz=50", "profileURL": "https://plus.google.com/108525932662631422806", "name": "Brad Worst", "isSelf": false, "loginProvider": "GooglePlus" }, "flagCount": 0, "highlightGroups": [], "edited": false, "timestamp": 1437757148281, "threadTimestamp": 1437757148281, "status": "published" }, { "ID": "f3a37aadf3f64b39ae13213f3eee5086", "streamId": "7247982c-2536-4c44-a952-6988aade8eca1437602015190", "threadID": "", "isModerator": false, "commentText": "Another factor might be that national parks tend to exist in areas that have histories of active hostility to black people. James Loewen's book, Sundown Towns, details how African Americans spread throughout America after the civil war, but were largely forced into urban enclaves by white hostility during the fifty years following the end of Reconstruction. Lynchings, the rise of the Ku Klux Klan, and de facto or de jure segregation occurred throughout America.\r\nThe 'whiteness' of rural and western America is a product of active and often terrifying bigotry. Park rangers who grew up in these areas grew up in an ethos that assumes 'whiteness' as the norm, and that people of color are strangers and (possibly dangerous) outsiders.\r\nPart of the solution might be for every park service employee to be heavily inserviced regarding the operation of race in American history and society.", "TotalVotes": 0, "posVotes": 3, "negVotes": 3, "vote": "none", "descendantsCount": 3, "sender": { "photoURL": "https://graph.facebook.com/v2.3/100004160678485/picture?type=square", "profileURL": "http://www.facebook.com/100004160678485", "name": "Paul Jordan", "isSelf": false, "loginProvider": "Facebook" }, "flagCount": 0, "replies": [ { "ID": "aa053017bd06424dbe9a24b6b7a2e9a7", "streamId": "7247982c-2536-4c44-a952-6988aade8eca1437602015190", "parentID": "f3a37aadf3f64b39ae13213f3eee5086", "threadID": "f3a37aadf3f64b39ae13213f3eee5086", "isModerator": false, "commentText": "Racial sensitivity training for Smokey the Bear and Ranger Rick? Yes, that will fix everything, I'm sure.", "TotalVotes": 1, "posVotes": 1, "negVotes": 0, "vote": "none", "sender": { "photoURL": "https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-XdUIqdMkCWA/AAAAAAAAAAI/AAAAAAAAAAA/4252rscbv5M/photo.jpg?sz=50", "profileURL": "https://plus.google.com/116293986529211801380", "name": "p51abc .", "isSelf": false, "loginProvider": "GooglePlus" }, "flagCount": 0, "highlightGroups": [], "edited": false, "timestamp": 1437892856108, "threadTimestamp": 0, "status": "published" }, { "ID": "d22f8454b85d41d8b60cc3697902f9eb", "streamId": "7247982c-2536-4c44-a952-6988aade8eca1437602015190", "parentID": "f3a37aadf3f64b39ae13213f3eee5086", "threadID": "f3a37aadf3f64b39ae13213f3eee5086", "isModerator": false, "commentText": "I'm not surprised you're being downvoted. For some reason, White America likes to pretend that what you just said isn't the truth. I wonder why...", "TotalVotes": 1, "posVotes": 2, "negVotes": 1, "vote": "none", "sender": { "photoURL": "https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-HqTNzmL8pXQ/AAAAAAAAAAI/AAAAAAAAAH4/mv0sBY9XU44/photo.jpg?sz=50", "profileURL": "https://plus.google.com/113147306464720027038", "name": "Dana Thompson", "isSelf": false, "loginProvider": "GooglePlus" }, "flagCount": 0, "replies": [ { "ID": "391cdabca7194a738b2feceb9bbce941", "streamId": "7247982c-2536-4c44-a952-6988aade8eca1437602015190", "parentID": "d22f8454b85d41d8b60cc3697902f9eb", "threadID": "f3a37aadf3f64b39ae13213f3eee5086", "isModerator": false, "commentText": "Well, Dana, that's because his argument is not true. It is fallacious. He argues that the present geographic distribution of blacks. That geographical distribution would not be remediated in any by in-service training. ", "TotalVotes": -1, "posVotes": 0, "negVotes": 1, "vote": "none", "sender": { "photoURL": "https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-_LcRLYP2aQk/AAAAAAAAAAI/AAAAAAAAAkU/XYYQmQ0zOlU/photo.jpg?sz=50", "profileURL": "https://plus.google.com/110743003640118063780", "name": "Crow T. Potter", "isSelf": false, "loginProvider": "GooglePlus" }, "flagCount": 0, "highlightGroups": [], "edited": false, "timestamp": 1438040481139, "threadTimestamp": 0, "status": "published" } ], "highlightGroups": [], "edited": false, "timestamp": 1438003254673, "threadTimestamp": 0, "status": "published" } ], "highlightGroups": [], "edited": false, "timestamp": 1437756687729, "threadTimestamp": 1437756687729, "status": "published" }, { "ID": "7e3b916d10c247e1929f2218fe7f01e0", "streamId": "7247982c-2536-4c44-a952-6988aade8eca1437602015190", "threadID": "", "isModerator": false, "commentText": "Brilliant exposé of a hitherto unknown conspiracy, NOT!!! What a sad state journalism must be in, that such poorly conceived race mongering can ever see the light of day anywhere, let alone al-jazeera. If anything, this demonstrates that racism is no longer very prevalent at all, if this is considered relevant evidence of it by anyone. ", "TotalVotes": 3, "posVotes": 7, "negVotes": 4, "vote": "none", "descendantsCount": 3, "sender": { "photoURL": "https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-XdUIqdMkCWA/AAAAAAAAAAI/AAAAAAAAAAA/4252rscbv5M/photo.jpg?sz=50", "profileURL": "https://plus.google.com/117571281419003901432", "name": "Mark Smith", "isSelf": false, "loginProvider": "GooglePlus" }, "flagCount": 0, "replies": [ { "ID": "3c75a25bde9c49febcaca7134e36d41e", "streamId": "7247982c-2536-4c44-a952-6988aade8eca1437602015190", "parentID": "7e3b916d10c247e1929f2218fe7f01e0", "threadID": "7e3b916d10c247e1929f2218fe7f01e0", "isModerator": false, "commentText": "\"Race mongering\" is not a thing. \"Reverse racism\" is not a thing. You can say it as much as you want, but it won't make it real. ", "TotalVotes": 1, "posVotes": 4, "negVotes": 3, "vote": "none", "sender": { "photoURL": "http://pbs.twimg.com/profile_images/539445069762138113/oVYTQOlJ_normal.jpeg", "profileURL": "http://twitter.com/DirtyFilthyFame", "name": "DirtyFilthyFame", "isSelf": false, "loginProvider": "twitter" }, "flagCount": 0, "replies": [ { "ID": "12765bf5d3d24fb69dbcd9d854637930", "streamId": "7247982c-2536-4c44-a952-6988aade8eca1437602015190", "parentID": "3c75a25bde9c49febcaca7134e36d41e", "threadID": "7e3b916d10c247e1929f2218fe7f01e0", "isModerator": false, "commentText": "Here's a hint: Acting like you're better than someone and blindly dismissing their claims makes you look like a fool. Race mongering is very much a thing. If you seriously can't believe that certain individuals of a subjugated group do not use their status to their advantage, then you are vastly ignorant.", "TotalVotes": -1, "posVotes": 3, "negVotes": 4, "vote": "none", "sender": { "photoURL": "https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-01GVj5MwopI/AAAAAAAAAAI/AAAAAAAAABQ/cDLVLBWU_VE/photo.jpg?sz=50", "profileURL": "https://plus.google.com/116600706402178285100", "name": "Cornelius Bethlaham", "isSelf": false, "loginProvider": "GooglePlus" }, "flagCount": 0, "replies": [ { "ID": "6396e5fdf97643788b78399f951258aa", "streamId": "7247982c-2536-4c44-a952-6988aade8eca1437602015190", "parentID": "12765bf5d3d24fb69dbcd9d854637930", "threadID": "7e3b916d10c247e1929f2218fe7f01e0", "isModerator": false, "commentText": "Maybe take a minute to examine what just said... particularly the part about blindly dismissing claims.", "TotalVotes": -1, "posVotes": 0, "negVotes": 1, "vote": "none", "sender": { "photoURL": "https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-HqTNzmL8pXQ/AAAAAAAAAAI/AAAAAAAAAH4/mv0sBY9XU44/photo.jpg?sz=50", "profileURL": "https://plus.google.com/113147306464720027038", "name": "Dana Thompson", "isSelf": false, "loginProvider": "GooglePlus" }, "flagCount": 0, "highlightGroups": [], "edited": false, "timestamp": 1438003356291, "threadTimestamp": 0, "status": "published" } ], "highlightGroups": [], "edited": false, "timestamp": 1437770300247, "threadTimestamp": 0, "status": "published" } ], "highlightGroups": [], "edited": false, "timestamp": 1437764832751, "threadTimestamp": 0, "status": "published" } ], "highlightGroups": [], "edited": false, "timestamp": 1437716431994, "threadTimestamp": 1437716431994, "status": "published" }, { "ID": "ec6fd479940f4adcbfe7bbba230bae20", "streamId": "7247982c-2536-4c44-a952-6988aade8eca1437602015190", "threadID": "", "isModerator": false, "commentText": "Well, in order to have minority tour guides there has to be minority applicants. This author of this article is ignorant and is searching for anything to call whites racist. Get over yourselves", "TotalVotes": 0, "posVotes": 3, "negVotes": 3, "vote": "none", "descendantsCount": 2, "sender": { "photoURL": "https://apis.live.net/v5.0/0C3EA73E5F8BBF8D/picture", "profileURL": "https://profile.live.com/", "name": "Anonymous", "isSelf": false, "loginProvider": "Messenger" }, "flagCount": 0, "replies": [ { "ID": "447920506a77481cbfae48a6582e4107", "streamId": "7247982c-2536-4c44-a952-6988aade8eca1437602015190", "parentID": "ec6fd479940f4adcbfe7bbba230bae20", "threadID": "ec6fd479940f4adcbfe7bbba230bae20", "isModerator": false, "commentText": "We apply for those jobs. I have.", "TotalVotes": 1, "posVotes": 1, "negVotes": 0, "vote": "none", "sender": { "photoURL": "https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-HqTNzmL8pXQ/AAAAAAAAAAI/AAAAAAAAAH4/mv0sBY9XU44/photo.jpg?sz=50", "profileURL": "https://plus.google.com/113147306464720027038", "name": "Dana Thompson", "isSelf": false, "loginProvider": "GooglePlus" }, "flagCount": 0, "replies": [ { "ID": "f7702763063b4b1bbff7e121d94b495c", "streamId": "7247982c-2536-4c44-a952-6988aade8eca1437602015190", "parentID": "447920506a77481cbfae48a6582e4107", "threadID": "ec6fd479940f4adcbfe7bbba230bae20", "isModerator": false, "commentText": "Might it also be fair to reach the conclusion that people tend to apply for jobs they enjoy and know something about? Therefore with a disparity in the attendance of national parks, minorities are not developing the same interests in the parks and therefore are either not interested or unaware of job opportunities within them?", "TotalVotes": 0, "posVotes": 0, "negVotes": 0, "vote": "none", "sender": { "photoURL": "https://apis.live.net/v5.0/24FAC1EA2FD4504E/picture", "profileURL": "https://profile.live.com/", "name": "J W", "isSelf": false, "loginProvider": "Messenger" }, "flagCount": 0, "highlightGroups": [], "edited": false, "timestamp": 1438017973576, "threadTimestamp": 0, "status": "published" } ], "highlightGroups": [], "edited": false, "timestamp": 1438003374777, "threadTimestamp": 0, "status": "published" } ], "highlightGroups": [], "edited": false, "timestamp": 1437710635427, "threadTimestamp": 1437710635427, "status": "published" }, { "ID": "b1d34b86db094b44acfb125d15e9de32", "streamId": "7247982c-2536-4c44-a952-6988aade8eca1437602015190", "threadID": "", "isModerator": false, "commentText": "I like Canadian parks much better. There's always a smile and the Canadian Rockies are more beautiful.", "TotalVotes": -1, "posVotes": 1, "negVotes": 2, "vote": "none", "sender": { "photoURL": "http://pbs.twimg.com/profile_images/378800000564011545/749a8148c8901fd5c340f327ef83b083_normal.jpeg", "profileURL": "http://twitter.com/pimausa", "name": "pimausa", "isSelf": false, "loginProvider": "twitter" }, "flagCount": 0, "highlightGroups": [], "edited": false, "timestamp": 1437710565030, "threadTimestamp": 1437710565030, "status": "published" } ], "commentCount": 36, "next": "ts_1437710565030", "nextTS": 1437710565030, "hasMore": true, "statusCode": 200, "errorCode": 0, "statusReason": "OK", "callId": "a6fbc68480344ee3abdc935e1396782e", "time": "2016-03-02T21:23:42.680Z", "context": "R1159346686" });