New Org for U. of Southern California Black Students Combats ‘Environmental Racism’
“…nature sometimes can be associated with slavery and ‘Black people hanging from trees.'”
Racism everywhere, even in nature:
The new Woodlums outdoors group was created by black students for black students to foster a greater appreciation of nature and break down “stigma,” according to Annenberg Media, a student-led news outlet at the university.
“I just think that, especially when we take a look at how nature has been associated with Black people in the past, especially in America, I think it’s important for us to understand how to rebuild it and…release a lot of stigmas that we might still have around it,” USC senior Caleb Flenoury said.
A member of Woodlums, Flenoury said nature sometimes can be associated with slavery and “Black people hanging from trees.”
That is where Woodlums comes in. The student organization, which began last year, works to “address the individual and communal, mental and bodily harms of environmental racism by organizing nature-focused activities and trips for Black students on campus,” according to its Instagram account.
The name of the group is a play on the word “hoodlums,” student co-founder Nia McMillan told the Daily Trojan student newspaper.
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“A member of Woodlums, Flenoury said nature sometimes can be associated with slavery and “Black people hanging from trees.”
Only if you’re an incurable monomaniac.
“nature sometimes can be associated with slavery and “Black people hanging from trees.””
WTF?
Who, specifically, makes that association? Not anyone I’ve ever known.
I guess it goes hand in hand with “picnic” being racist for some unknown reason.
We reached out to Yogi Bear for comment but had not received a response at the time of publishing.
“Who, specifically, makes that association?”
Someone who hears his heart beat “vic-tim, vic-tim, vic-tim” every day.
Who makes that association? To start with, someone who would be astonished to hear that, in the long history of lynchings, not only were not all victims black, only a small minority were, and even within that minority, only a minority were motivated by racism. They’d also be shocked to hear that many (probably most) lynching victims were guilty and deserved execution.
Then they learn that in the long history of slavery, the vast majority of slaves were not African, and of those that were, the vast majority were not owned by Europeans.
That’s who is triggered by words like “nature”, “picnic”, “field”, “niggard”, and “rule of thumb” (I threw that one in for a certain kind of feminist ignorama).
These people grow more tiresome by the day.