Hello, I'm Jared Taylor with American Renaissance.
Last week, I told you that the famous Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge has issued a warning to viewers of this John Constable painting of Hempstead Heath.
It has a darker side because it implies that only those with a historical tie to the land have a right to belong in Britain.
This painting is from around 1820.
I guess Constable should have included some Pakistanis.
This ridiculous warning is part of a ridiculous fashion of claiming that the British countryside excludes non-whites.
The latest salvo was a report to Parliament by Wildlife and Countryside Link, a coalition of 80 nature organizations.
The report makes novel arguments.
Did you know that racist colonial legacies continue to frame nature in the UK as a white space and people of color as out of place?
Or that there are multiple intersecting barriers that can prevent ethnically diverse people, that means non-whites, from accessing urban and rural green spaces?
And that there is therefore a moral imperative to include people in communities who have been historically excluded?
Who is barring Africans from parks and pushing Muslims off hiking trails?
Obviously, no one.
So there was some mild indignation about this nuttiness in the British press.
So last month, the group that issued the report wrote, Wildlife and Countryside Link does not believe the entire countryside is a racist colonial white space.
Just most of it.
The idea that Hempstead Heath is colonial is insane.
Is it also fascist?
We will get more insanity.
Hate crime experts to rule whether English countryside harbors rural racism.
The Center for Hate Studies at the University of Leicester got two years to reach a verdict.
The head sleuth is Neil Chakraborty, director of hate studies.
He has extensively researched hate crime, targeted hostility and violence against minorities.
In Britain, there is no hate, hostility, or violence against whites.
Second in command is a professor of colonialism and heritage.
She has turned William Blake's line about England's green and pleasant land upside down and written a book called Green Unpleasant Land, which explores the countryside's repressed colonial past.
She says, taking country walks together are a great way to understand how colonial activity and imperial wealth shaped our countryside.
White people love to feel good about feeling bad about being white.
The third rural racism detective is Amy Clark, a research fellow at the Hate Center, who has spent the last nine years immersed in hate.
She co-hosts a podcast called Hidden Hate.
What a rollicking life.
Can you spot the hidden hate in this scene?
No? Well, you're not qualified to hunt for rural racism.
The Hate Center team has found 40 bona fide BIPOC victims of rural racism who are uniquely placed to co-produce the research data in the form of stories, photos, Poems and other arts-based media.
I wandered lonely as a cloud that floats on high over vales and hills, when all at once I saw a crowd of racist Brits and daffodils.
The money for this study is from the Leverholm Trust, a charity established by a plantation-owning soap magnet behind Unilever, which vowed following Black Lives Matter protests in 2020 to help rid the world of the systemic injustices of racism.
The final report will be out this fall.
So, what keeps BIPOCs out of the countryside?
Beth Collier.
There she is on the left.
Does what she calls nature-allied psychotherapy.
She traces exclusion back to the early environmental movement.
So how's this for gobbledygook?
This fueled the dispossession of lands for a lot of indigenous people and the idea that they were a blight on the landscape and needed to be removed in order for those landscapes to be pure and to be enjoyed.
What? The indigenous people of Britain are white.
More gobbledygook.
Upon encountering the British Empire and migrating to the West, we were told we were progressing because we were living in more technical, affluent cities.
So nature was backwards and cities and urban life were progressive.
That led to the internalization of a sense of being inferior for having a relationship with nature.
This Guardian article about camping is more straightforward.
First, it explains that most third-worlders have no tradition of camping.
Also, as a Muslim scoutmaster explains, the connection between simple living and poverty is just too strong, so camping may be seen as a backwards step.
But once they're out in the country, oh boy, black hikers encounter racism and ignorance on the trail.
Example? This guy, Enoch.
Adi Ami says he likes to get 40 black people together and go up mountains in Scotland, music blaring.
Folks have confidently stopped and told us to turn our music off.
I think, why should I turn off my music?
Just because white Scottish people enjoy nature one way, that doesn't mean black people have to enjoy it exactly the same way.
He points out that black people naturally make a racket.
Folks from Africa are more animated and their voices are louder.
We're advocates of being ourselves, but some people don't like that.
They'd rather you be quiet outdoors.
But even he agrees.
Most black people just don't want to be there.
I think black folks think hiking is for white people.
Why would I want to walk up a mountain for nothing?
One reason is to stick it in Whitey's eye.
Peaks of Color is a nature for healing club by and for people of color only.
That's nice.
I guess they've been excluded for centuries.
Heck, millennia!
So they're going to exclude us.
Here is the homepage for the Black Unity bike ride, complete with clenched fist logo and flares in the African nationalist colors, black, green, and red.
For its main event, 1,500 black people ride bicycles 16 miles through London.
That will snarl traffic and show those colonists.
Black Unity has many corporate sponsors.
Who would sponsor a white Unity bike ride?
A British bird-watching group called Flock Together is in the business of challenging perceptions on what nature is and who it belongs to.
What if you like nature the way it is?
It invites you to join the flock.
Do blacks always move in phalanxes like this?
This is how white people like to be outdoors.
And look out for black trail runners coming your way with big chips on their shoulders.
Invisible barriers to access mean that black people miss out on enjoying our outdoor spaces.
Black and minority communities are excluded from the narrative of trail running.
The founder of this group knows how to solve that problem.
Middle-aged white men in their ivory towers who are in charge of budgets and funding for these organizations need to listen and act on what we have been telling them about
In other words, give us money.
She goes on.
Got that?
The global majority.
Because there are more non-whites than whites in the world, non-whites should run Britain.
Muslim Hikers is another group doing its part.
It got Adidas to sponsor signs to Mecca along a popular hiking trail so they can point their bums in the right direction when they pray.
One hiker says, This makes me feel like the national park is welcoming us with open arms.
Something as simple as this can make us feel very welcomed.
Her group got a British company to design a waterproof prayer mat for rainy days.
Having a prayer mat which is weatherproof means I don't have to worry about walking around with a soggy mat in my bag.
These little things make a big difference.
Well, no wonder they didn't feel welcome.
No signs to Mecca.
No waterproof prayer mats.
Here's another hand-wringing report about exclusion.
It's got a whole chapter.
On Dadima's countryside walks and talks, which are designed to change the narrative of the countryside.
What if British people don't want the narrative changed?
Too bad.
Groups of Indians show up with pots of food for walks called saris, salwars, and boots, samosas, chai, and chutney through activities highlighted sharing migration stories and cultural wisdom heritage.
And your dog is a problem, Whitey.
It causes specific access issues for some people from ethnic minority backgrounds, particularly if they are Muslim, and can be a significant deterrent to visiting many natural environments.
So, get used to it.
Next time you go for a ramble, leave your dog at home.
And expect to see Muslims preying on waterproof mats, gangs of Indians chomping on chutney changing the narrative, and blacks carrying boomboxes while you grieve over how your ancestors exploited these people.
We Yanks can be just as bad, of course.
America's national parks face existential crisis over race.
Oh, that mostly white workforce.
Pretty awful.
But part of our global majority has a sense of humor about it all.
White people really need to stop asking black people to go camping.
We don't want to go.
On behalf of me and Tyrone here, we don't want to fucking go.
I know comedians talk about this all the time, but why would we want to leave the comfort of our own bed to sleep on the ground?
And here are black hikers pretending to be white.
Pretty clever actually You gotta love you it's wet down there Yeah, just like keep going down straight the waterfall is
gonna be on the left you're gonna love it Watch your step It's worth it
Black people and white people are not the same.
So, white people, wherever you are, if BIPOCs want to stay home, let them.
The countryside does not have a colonial legacy for Pete's sake.
They are the ones colonizing Britain with shameless demands and claims about changing the narrative and telling you what nature is.
Only white people would sit still for this and feel guilty about it, too.
But don't worry.
When the global majority takes over, Britain will again be a green and pleasant land.
As this article explains, black and brown hikers are taking back Britain's countryside.
It was theirs all along.
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