Leftists are now claiming that national parks are racist. This is the latest insanity being pushed by those in the left. In a report by ABC, “America’s Great White Outdoors” Joel Pannell, associate director of the Sierra Club claimed that the outdoors and the national parks suffered from the same systemic racism that is prevalent in the whole of American society. “The outdoors and public lands suffer from the same systemic racism that the rest of our society does,” Pannell said.

He threatened that it should be addressed right away because it might mean losing everything. “You’re not going to have public lands to enjoy,” he said in a thinly veiled threat that says if access is not given to minorities to those national parks then they would destroy it. That is how the left is trying to get what they want now.

The claim that national parks are racist is just the latest part of the general upheaval that started with the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis. Protests were organized to fight against police brutality but it didn’t take long for other leftists groups to take over and used the issue to push for their agenda. Soon the protests turned into lootings and riots all over the United States. The so-called protesters also started to destroy monuments and statues. It’s not surprising at all that they’re now calling the national parks racist. Pretty soon they will be calling for the destruction of those same national parks because they are monuments to white supremacy.

They came to that conclusion because only 23% of the people who visited national parks are people of color. So, their immediate conclusion is that the whole system is racist. What they want is to ensure that more people of color will be visiting the parks.

What they did not consider is that maybe people of color might not want to visit national parks in the first place. Many of them live in cities and urban areas that are far from national parks. That is a major factor in them not being able to go to parks. That seems obvious and yet the default option for the leftists now is to claim racism even if the claim would seem ridiculous. It’s all part of the leftist push to destroy the very fabric of the American nation and to replace it with a communist country that they can fashion based on their ideas.