Professor Says Hiking and Fishing is ‘Racist’ and ‘White Supremacist’
A North Carolina professor recently claimed that hiking and fishing are racist activities because they are filled with white supremacists.
KangJae “Jerry” Lee, a professor of the College of Natural Resources at North Carolina State University, insisted that racists are stopping everyone else from enjoying the great outdoors.
White culture, he said, is preventing blacks from hunting, fishing, and hiking.
According to KAKE-TV, Lee recently said, “If we start connecting the dots, the issue becomes excruciatingly clear that historical institutional racism has banished people of color from the great outdoors.”
“(Some White elites saw) the urban environment as dirty, unhealthy, filled with lots of immigrants and people of color, whereas green spaces were clean, quiet and for White people,” Lee continued.
Lee added that early environmentalists and naturalists were all racists.
“They had no interest in serving people of color,” Lee said. “Some of them even viewed parks and outdoor recreation as a tool for maintaining White supremacy, and believed White Americans could cultivate tough and boisterous characteristics in the outdoor environment.”
“Outdoor spaces weren’t just coded as White, they were White,” Lee exclaimed. “They were defined and managed as White spaces.”
Well, there you have it. If you like the great outdoors, you are a raging racist.
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