The Outdoor Industry Has Too Many White Dudes

[tay]

But that's finally starting to change—and these five CEOs, writers, and activists are helping to lead the charge


Mapp started Outdoor Afro in 2009 as a blog.

It has since blossomed into an organization that uses social media to organize outdoor meetups in African American communities. Participants across the country hike, ski, garden, and fish together. The organization has also trained 70 people in 30 states to lead these groups. Mapp says the organization doesn’t focus on “rescuing people from the hood,” with salvation coming in the form of outdoor access. Instead, she says, Outdoor Afro is focused on providing people the opportunity to play outside however they want, knowing that a love for the natural world comes from being able to experience it.

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[Curious Cdn]

Do they need any new canoe sheds?

 

[davesmom]

But that's finally starting to change—and these five CEOs, writers, and activists are helping to lead the charge


Mapp started Outdoor Afro in 2009 as a blog.

It has since blossomed into an organization that uses social media to organize outdoor meetups in African American communities. Participants across the country hike, ski, garden, and fish together. The organization has also trained 70 people in 30 states to lead these groups. Mapp says the organization doesn’t focus on “rescuing people from the hood,” with salvation coming in the form of outdoor access. Instead, she says, Outdoor Afro is focused on providing people the opportunity to play outside however they want, knowing that a love for the natural world comes from being able to experience it.

http://archive.is/mjH9m

This doesn't sound like a good way to promote unity. I don't think the black community really wants unity, they seem to want to be exclusive to their own. That's a tribal ideology, not the American way.

 

[Hoof Hearted]

"I don't think the black community really wants unity, they seem to want to be exclusive to their own. That's a tribal ideology, not the American way."

Tennis anyone?

 

[Johnnny]

Here we go again... Too many white males means racism...

 

[Hoof Hearted]

I'm white and I don't hike, ski, garden, or fish. And I like to play outdoor basketball with my kids.

Does this make me an Afro Canadian?

 

[lone wolf]

This doesn't sound like a good way to promote unity. I don't think the black community really wants unity, they seem to want to be exclusive to their own. That's a tribal ideology, not the American way.

What IS 'the American way'? It's no longer what's claimed on the Statue of Liberty.

"Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, the wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed to me, I lift my lamp beside the golden door!"

I can almost smell another executive order....

 

[taxslave]

But that's finally starting to change—and these five CEOs, writers, and activists are helping to lead the charge


Mapp started Outdoor Afro in 2009 as a blog.

It has since blossomed into an organization that uses social media to organize outdoor meetups in African American communities. Participants across the country hike, ski, garden, and fish together. The organization has also trained 70 people in 30 states to lead these groups. Mapp says the organization doesn’t focus on “rescuing people from the hood,” with salvation coming in the form of outdoor access. Instead, she says, Outdoor Afro is focused on providing people the opportunity to play outside however they want, knowing that a love for the natural world comes from being able to experience it.

http://archive.is/mjH9m

You mean there are no homeless black people?

 

[Curious Cdn]

What IS 'the American way'? It's no longer what's claimed on the Statue of Liberty.

Lots an' lots o' guuns makes fur a trew blew, star spangled outdoor experience.

 

[taxslave]

Guns & alcohol can make for fun times outdoors.WE even had a homemade cannon once.

 

[lone wolf]

Guns & alcohol can make for fun times outdoors.WE even had a homemade cannon once.

2" ABS about 2' long one end blocked, a tennis ball, hair spray and a cigarette lighter?

 

[Curious Cdn]

Guns & alcohol can make for fun times outdoors.WE even had a homemade cannon once.

I did that sober a few times.

Ever heard of "grapefruit guns?"

The best grapefruit gun that we ever made was actually an orange gun. The barrel was a spent 3"/50 shell (pinched from HMCS Protecteur), the propellant was a thunder flash and we put an orange on top of an eight story building from about 100 yards away on the ground below.

.. and THEN we went for drinks!