Burning Man founder: "I don't think black folks like to camp as much as white folks"

[Liberal Retards Attacking Liberals]

Larry Harvey, the founder of Burning Man, has been forced to
defend the festivals lack of racial diversity, after a Burning
Man census showed the festival is 87% white and only 1.3% black.

One of the festival's ten core principles - in fact, the first
one on the list - is 'racial inclusion', and after the release
of the census stats, Harvey found himself defending the ratios
to The Guardian:

“I don’t think black folks like to camp as much as white folks,"
Harvey said. “This has never been imagined by us as a utopian
society,” he continued. “I’ll believe in utopia when I meet my
first perfect person, and this community is made up of 70,000
imperfect persons."

“That being the case,” he continued, “I think it’s a little much
to expect the organisation to solve the problem of racial
parity. We do see a fast-increasing influx of Asians, black
folks. I actually see black folks out here, unlike some of our
liberal critics. We’re not going to set racial quotas.”

Burning Man is set in Black Rock City, a temporary annual
community in the Black Rock desert in Nevada. It dates to 1986,
and has a number of principles, including radical self-reliance,
radical self-expression and gifting. It's attendance is
currently around the 70,000 mark.

Clarifying his comment on camping to The Guardian, Harvey looked
to historical context: “Remember a group that was enslaved and
made to work. Slavishly, you know in the fields. This goes all
the way back to the Caribbean scene, when the average life of a
slave in the fields was very short. And, so, there’s that
background, that agrarian poverty associated with things. Maybe
your first move isn’t to go camping. Seriously.”

http://www.nme.com/news/nme/88112

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“I don’t think black folks like to camp as much as white folks," Harvey
said. “This has never been imagined by us as a utopian society,” he
continued. “I’ll believe in utopia when I meet my first perfect person,
and this community is made up of 70,000 imperfect persons."

Whites don't have to worry about TNB when they enjoy the great outdoors.
Blacks are primarily urban creatures. It's fine with me if they stay the
hell away. After all, who wants to listen to thump-thumping boom-box (c)rap
noise at Yosemite?
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Um, So National Parks Are Racist Too.

Robert Gehl
JULY 14, 2015

Planning a road trip this summer? Maybe to one of America’s National Parks?

Yeah, you would, you filthy racist.

Turns out that in addition to well, everything, national parks are racist
too.

In a piece in The New York Times, Glenn Nelson writes it’s a sad state of
affairs that while 37 percent of the U.S. population are not white, only 22
percent of visitors to the country’s national parks are not white. It’s a
real tragedy.

As an example, Nelson writes about a 58-year-old black woman who doesn’t go
to national parks because she’s afraid of bears. Makes sense, I suppose.

Nelson writes that as the “son of a Japanese mother,” he was worried about
seeing a “Whites Only” sign at the entrance to one park, and about “being
lynched” while carrying firewood at sunset” at another park.

Of course, this is insanely stupid. All of it.

But it doesn’t matter. Nelson said we need to reach out in frantic messages
to get minorities to visit parks.

“Its outreach should be tailored to minorities and delivered where they log
in, follow, Tweet, view or listen. The park service needs to shout to
minorities from its iconic mountaintops, ‘We want you here!’” he advises.

“The national parks are every American’s vacation home,” he also insists.

It sure is, but who cares if everybody realizes it or not.

Do people think there are bears at every national park? Moronic.

http://tinyurl.com/p6oaqcq




Keynote speaker to national Canadian Outdoors conference: "Blacks feel safe
in cities [not] in nature"

North American crisis: Campgrounds and federal parks overwhelmingly white;
blacks prefer an urban environment, says black expert

From Eric Dondero:
Thursday, February 28, 2013

Black people don't like nature as much as whites. Who knew?

From the TorontoStar, "Ravines aren’t just for rich white people":
http://tinyurl.com/d8zb3w6

National parks in the United States and Canada are grappling with
white-camper complexes. Their clientele is aging and shrinking. So, perhaps,
is their sacred place in our national identity.

In a recent study, the U.S. National Parks Service service found that
despite 10 years of outreach to minorities, visitors to U.S. national parks
remained largely white: 78 per cent.

Ontario parks launched a “learn-to-camp” program directed at urbanites and
minorities — basically, as my colleague Tony Wong wrote, bribing them to
enjoy the outdoors. A desperate ranger in California’s Yosemite Park, where
only 1 per cent of visitors are African American.

[Park People's Third Annual summit keynote speaker] Mickey Fearn says the
reasons run deeper.
“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.”

Editor's comment - Now just imagine for a moment a white person making a
similar remark? "Blacks aren't into nature, they're more comfortable in an
urban jungle." That would be, of course, "Raaaaaacist!"

http://www.libertarianrepublican.net/2013/02/keynote-speaker-to-national-canadian.html

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Post by Byker
Whites don't have to worry about TNB when they enjoy the great outdoors.
Blacks are primarily urban creatures. It's fine with me if they stay the
hell away. After all, who wants to listen to thump-thumping boom-box (c)rap
noise at Yosemite?

Or not have a cell signal due to the remoteness, I think blacks are
worse about having a phone glued to their ear during waking hours than
whites, and with whites it's pretty bad.