I wish this was made up.
Palm Springs, Calif., says it will remove a row of trees dividing a neighborhood and a golf course after residents complained that the trees evoked feelings of “segregation” and “discrimination.”
Source: https://nypost.com/2017/12/21/golf-course-removes-racist-trees/
7 replies on “We know walls are racist, but are your trees racist?”
Trees, air… it’s all racist.
Racism is racist, well known fact. Uh huh.
Looks like that line of trees may well have been planted because that was a poor black neighborhood. The NY Post has the trees on the wrong side of that fairway circled. The trees are actually more like a very tall, very dense hedge, click through to the Desert Sun article for a better view. Looking around in Google Earth, that was only the line of trees like that around that golf course I could find. Regardless of whether the original intent was racist the home owners that border on the golf course certainly have a legitimate gripe that the city is depressing their home values by blocking the view of the mountains.
Usually trees that border golf courses are installed to keep golf balls from flying through your window. I guess if there is a view blockage issue, there would be no recourse. You don;t have a right to a view through someone else’s property. Unless you own the air rights of course. Seems like the racist angle might be the only way to accomplish the objective if it is a view issue.
Sure, but it’s not somebody else’s property. It’s a city golf course so it’s as much theirs as anybody’s.
I think I’d argue that why it was planted isn’t really relevant 50 years later. Unless you’ve lived in one of those houses for 40+ years you knew they were there, blocking the view, when you bought the house. Now you’re asking the city to spend money to increase your property’s value, making the city less affordable for people like you were.
YGBFSM!