{"id":1988900,"date":"2023-08-02T15:49:02","date_gmt":"2023-08-02T19:49:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/my-hike-was-great-until-i-remembered-that-trees-are-racist\/"},"modified":"2023-08-02T15:52:05","modified_gmt":"2023-08-02T19:52:05","slug":"my-hike-was-great-until-i-remembered-that-trees-are-racist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/my-hike-was-great-until-i-remembered-that-trees-are-racist\/","title":{"rendered":"Enjoyed my hike until I recalled trees&#8217; racial bias."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fmy-hike-was-great-until-i-remembered-that-trees-are-racist%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1988900&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<figure>\n<p><span>Image Credit<\/span>Photo taken by\u200c author<\/p>\n<\/figure><\/div>\n<p>I\u2019m an enthusiastic outdoorsman \u200band avid environmentalist. But even more so, I\u2019m a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/my-hike-was-great-until-i-remembered-that-trees-are-racist\/\" title=\"Enjoyed my hike until I recalled trees' racial bias.\">die-hard social \u2064justice warrior<\/a>. So it was\u2063 with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/watch-psaki-appears-to-sneer-at-reporter-who-asks-if-high-gas-prices-are-politically-damaging\/\" title=\"WATCH: Psaki Appears To Sneer At Reporter Who Asks If High Gas Prices Are Politically Damaging\">great interest<\/a> that I clicked on a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/news\/nbcblk\/meet-black-outdoorsy-groups-reclaiming-joys-nature-rcna86934?cid=sm_npd_nn_tw_ma&#038;taid=64c07e3963691100014757f1&#038;utm_campaign=trueanthem&#038;utm_medium=social&#038;utm_source=twitter\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">link<\/a> to NBC News last week about \u201cBlack outdoorsy groups reclaiming the joys\u200d of nature.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>First, I want to make sure to check my privilege at the outset of this article. White\u2062 people are not allowed\u2063 to write about racism unless they first acknowledge their own status of \u200binferiority under the modern hierarchal complex of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/dems-lost-all-credibility-on-social-distancing-after-biden-celebrations\/\" title=\"Dems Lost All Credibility On Social Distancing After Biden Celebrations\">social justice<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBlack people across the country are\u200d reclaiming the outdoors by forming \u200ctheir own communities of nature enthusiasts,\u201d NBC\u200d News reported. Several segregated \u2064organizations have now\u2062 formed, \u2063<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/parents-push-back-on-the-rainbow-mafias-unmistakable-intolerance\/\" title=\"Parents resist the Rainbow Mafia's clear intolerance.\">providing \u201csafe spaces<\/a> for Black people to enjoy outdoor activities and dispel myths that the\u2063 outdoors doesn\u2019t belong to us.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>It\u2019s no coincidence\u2062 that Yellowstone, the first national\u200c park in the U.S., was established shortly after\u2064 the Civil War. As\u200b industrialization and westward expansion continued,\u2062 white elites supported the proliferation of national parks in\u2064 response to urban expansion.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>To be honest, I had forgotten that trees were racist. I \u200dhad become so distracted by the evergreen beauty of Colorado\u2019s forests that I\u200d stopped questioning how I could be victimized by their presence, even if I\u2019m not black. \u200cTwo years ago, a \u200bPortland high school reminded me of trees\u2019 racist history when officials <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2021\/04\/05\/portland-high-school-delays-vote-on-evergreen-mascot-because-trees-are-racist\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">rejected<\/a> the evergreen mascot\u2063 over the fact that trees were \u2062associated with lynching.<\/p>\n<p>I recently went on a hike\u2063 to soak in the sights and scenery of summer in northern Colorado. My Prius barely made it to the trailhead, though I question whether there should even be roads there\u200d in the first \u200cplace. \u2064Through \u200dsome evergreens, I saw a rainbow. The streak had every\u200d color visible\u200c but one, of course: black.<\/p>\n<figure><\/figure>\n<p>The rainbow was a good reminder of natural racism. Even\u200d Colorado\u2019s snow-capped peaks are white.<\/p>\n<figure><\/figure>\n<p>If you listen \u200bclosely, however, \u200bnature will often tell\u2062 you something, either about yourself or the\u200c world around \u2062you. While observing the \u200brainbow through the evergreen trees, \u2064I leaned in to hear their message reverberating through \u200btheir ancient roots. Up came four \u200bwords carried by \u2064the\u200c gentle breeze that will haunt me forever.<\/p>\n<p>They whispered, \u201cThis is MAGA country.\u201d<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Tristan Justice is the \u200bwestern correspondent for The Federalist and the author of Social \u2062Justice Redux, a conservative newsletter on culture, health, and wellness. He has also written for\u200d The Washington\u200b Examiner and The Daily Signal. His work has \u2064also\u200d been featured in Real Clear Politics and\u200b Fox News. Tristan graduated from George Washington University where he majored\u2062 in political science and minored in journalism. Follow him on Twitter\u200c at @JusticeTristan or contact him at Tristan@thefederalist.com. Sign \u200cup for Tristan&#8217;s email \u2064newsletter <a href=\"https:\/\/socialjusticeredux.substack.com\/about\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div data-image data-amount=\"5\">\n<h2>Popular<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/thefederalist.com\/#\"><\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/thefederalist.com\/#\"><\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/thefederalist.com\/#\"><\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/thefederalist.com\/#\"><\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/thefederalist.com\/#\"><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>give credit to the author of the photo, taken by me. As an outdoors enthusiast and environmentalist, I was intrigued by an NBC News article on &#8220;Black outdoorsy groups reclaiming the joys of nature.&#8221; Being a passionate social justice advocate, this topic caught my attention.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":494,"featured_media":1988901,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[546],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1988900","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-federalist"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1988900","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/494"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1988900"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1988900\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1988901"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1988900"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1988900"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1988900"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}