What\u2019s missing when you hike the California backcountry? People of color<\/a><\/p>\n (Los Angeles Times) Last month, two friends and I backpacked for a week in the Sierra Nevada\u2026\u2026..But as the days passed, I grew increasingly troubled by the people we didn\u2019t meet. There were a few Asian hikers, including a couple of hapas like me (I\u2019m half Japanese and half Polish)\u2026\u2026\u2026.My own relationship with nature began in the Midwest. As a child, I was sent from Tokyo to live with my grandparents in rural Wisconsin. I faced incessant, sometimes violent bullying from the white children in town.\u2026.America\u2019s wildest, most beautiful places, though, are still largely white. One way to change that is simple exposure\u2026\u2026..Finally, diversifying the outdoors matters because equity and access matter. People of color, particularly children of color, deserve the same possibility of beauty and transcendence as white people\u2026\u2026..In July, I hiked up the wind-blown mountain passes, through shaded forests, beside alpine lakes. These places are among the loveliest gifts our country has to offer. They belong to us too.<\/p>\n \u201cNina Revoyr was a longtime executive at a children\u2019s services organization in LA\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Comments at Steve Sailer:<\/p>\n * I grew increasingly troubled by the people we didn\u2019t meet.<\/em><\/p>\n There it is again, that liberal word \u2013 \u2018troubled\u2019. The most insipid feeling imaginable. Like celery flavoured water.<\/p>\n See also: \u2018puzzled\u2019.<\/p>\n * I\u2019m troubled by her poor grasp of grammar.<\/p>\n * Nina Revoyr \u2013 half Japanese and half Polish.<\/p>\n Lots of Japanese girls are very pretty. Lots of Polish girls are very pretty. So mix the two sets of genes and you get:<\/p>\n * Half-Japs can get a kind of square-jaw thing going on, particularly when the dad is Asiatic. That said, I think you\u2019re going a bit out of the way for a cheap shot. She\u2019s completely ordinary looking.<\/p>\n * \u201cThe loveliest gifts our country has to offer\u201d..<\/p>\n Since she left Tokyo as a child to come here, how is it \u201cher country\u201d? And how exactly are whites keeping coloreds from back packing the Sierra Nevada\u2019s? Black back packers matter?<\/p>\n * She just looks like a very unattractive white woman to me.<\/p>\n * She looks like a plain, aging, middle aged butch white woman. I thought she\u2019d be much less attractive from your setup.<\/p>\n * I dated a half-Japanese (mom) half-American (dad) gal once; quite lovely and lithe. My own daughter is half-me (Celto-Germanic-Slavic) and half SE Asian, so she gets the European height and the SE Asian dusky hue; and her facial features are quite exotically attractive (not that I\u2019m bragging or anything!). Fortunately for my wife and I, she\u2019s conventional and conservative with boys, so I don\u2019t need to post a shotgun by the front door\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Los Angeles Times: What\u2019s missing when you hike the California backcountry? People of color (Los Angeles Times) Nina Revoyr Last month, two friends and I backpacked for a week in the Sierra Nevada\u2026\u2026..But as the days passed, I grew increasingly … Continue reading
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