VP Harris Asks NASA if It Can Track Trees by Race for ‘Environmental Justice’

[Anti Federalist]

VP Harris Asks NASA if It Can Track Trees by Race for ‘Environmental Justice’

What she's getting at is the CRT intersection of white supremacy and well groomed landscapes with plenty of trees, as opposed to black neighborhoods that have none.

Anti racist equity demands, I suppose, tree equity as well.



‘Black Trees Matter’ — VP Kamala Harris Asks NASA if It Can Track Trees by Race for ‘Environmental Justice’

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/...a-can-track-trees-race-environmental-justice/

JOSHUA KLEIN 7 Nov 2021

Vice President Kamala Harris asked NASA if it could use its satellites to track trees “by race” in various neighborhoods as part of “environmental justice” during a recent display on climate change, leading many to ridicule the vice president online and even giving rise to a “Black Trees Matter” hashtag.

Harris, who serves as chair of the National Space Council, visited Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, on Friday “to see vital climate science work.”

As she met with scientists and engineers and received a firsthand look at how the climate is studied by the space program as well as how it provides data concerning planetary changes and their impacts, the vice president declared, “I truly believe space activity is climate action.”

In a clip originally shared by Deputy Director of Rapid Response at Republican National Committee (RNC) Jake Schneider, Harris is seen interrupting a presentation in order to share her “woke” inquiry.

“Can you measure trees — part of that data that you are referring to, [and it’s an issue of] EJ, environmental justice — that you can also track by race their averages in terms of the number of trees in the neighborhoods where people live?”

https://twitter.com/i/status/1457097969149353984

 

[A Son of Liberty]

 

[Occam's Banana]

“I truly believe space activity is climate action.”

 

[acptulsa]

“I truly believe space activity is climate action.”

 

[The Northbreather]

Trees are definitely correlated to higher property values in cities.

The trees are not racist however.

 

[Anti Globalist]

What a joke this woman is.

 

[Invisible Man]

I wonder if I can pull of some kind of racial justice ju jitsu move to get the government to pay to cut down some trees on my property to help even things out.

 

[oyarde]

She'd have this looking like haiti in 18 months .

 

[Dr.3D]

Well, I don't know about race and trees, but I know there are Black Walnuts and White Pines.

 

[acptulsa]

Well, I don't know about race and trees, but I know there are Black Walnuts and White Pines.

I know there's a joke about soft wood and hard wood in there. But it would be a stereotype.

Of course, some minorities don't seem to mind certain stereotypes.

 

[Working Poor]

The war between the deciduous and the evergreens has begun....

 

[CaptUSA]

The war between the deciduous and the evergreens has begun....

And this goes here...


The trees are all kept equal by hatchet, axe, and saw.

 

[jmdrake]

The race of trees has a fondness for the race of Hobbits.

 

[Dr.3D]

I know there's a joke about soft wood and hard wood in there. But it would be a stereotype.

Of course, some minorities don't seem to mind certain stereotypes.

That reminds me of a joke.

My grandparents said a fellow came along asking if he could do chores so he could be paid by having dinner with them.

Grandpa told him he could go out back and split some wood and they would repay him with dinner.

The man went out back and they could hear the crack of wood being split for around and hour and then the fellow came back up to the house.

They asked him how he had split so much wood in such a short time and he told them he had been sitting on the fence telling jokes and the wood had been splitting itself.

Just then while they were eating, they heard another crack of wood being split.

Grandpa asked the man what that sound was and the man said, "It's just that old English Oak."

 

[Anti Federalist]

In regards to racist roads, as they relate to amount of trees, Tucker Carlson shot himself in the foot tonight.

He should have read up on Robert Moses.

 

[Bryan]

Unfortunately the idea that social justice / "neighborhood inequalities" applies to tree density isn't new.

Urban tree distribution reveals neighborhood inequalities within cities, including Houston
https://kinder.rice.edu/urbanedge/2...-inequalities-within-cities-including-houston

 

[jmdrake]

In regards to racist roads, as they relate to amount of trees, Tucker Carlson shot himself in the foot tonight.

He should have read up on Robert Moses.

I just heard about him last week for the first time. Racist white progressive that destroyed black neighborhoods through urban planning. Hew would build highways straight through black neighborhoods in order to destroy them and he built bridges so low that buses couldn't get through because a lot of blacks in New York didn't own cars. The left has been trying to rehabilitate him recently. What did Tucker say about him? Or did he just miss the opportunity to bring him up?

 

[Anti Federalist]

I just heard about him last week for the first time. Racist white progressive that destroyed black neighborhoods through urban planning. Hew would build highways straight through black neighborhoods in order to destroy them and he built bridges so low that buses couldn't get through because a lot of blacks in New York didn't own cars. The left has been trying to rehabilitate him recently. What did Tucker say about him? Or did he just miss the opportunity to bring him up?

I've known about Moses for years, anybody that grew up in and around NYC probably did, having to navigate through some of his designs, and insane limits on "parkways" and "thruways" and "expressways".

The last segment of his show today, he was mocking a press conference that was held with Pete Buttplug, where a black reporter asked what his dept. was planning to do about undoing "racist roads", and specifically was laughing at and pooh poohing the idea that roads had been constructed specifically to limit movement of blacks in NYC by limiting road clearances for buses.

I'll be the first to call out in the harshest of terms politically correct, race baiting woke Marxism, but in this case, there is truth to the complaint.

Robert Moses was a racist crank who used roads and civil engineering projects to wall off and isolate and ruin black neighborhoods.

 

[Anti Federalist]

[MENTION=849]jmdrake[/MENTION]

This was the press conference and the specific reference to Moses, although he doesn't mention him by name, I was well aware of who he was talking about.

At the same time, this is nothing new, nor is it restricted to just racism against black communities.

Read up on the thousands of poor white people and communities, not just subject to roads being built through them, but being utterly destroyed by aggressive dam building projects by the TVA and other government agencies.

This would also call into question the wisdom of government "solving" a problem it created in the first place...like trying to recover the Florida Everglades, after the fact.

I'm a railfan guy...and here's another example of private run railroads being better than massive government road projects: as far as I know, even at their worst, the railroad robber barons of the 19th century never pulled stunts like this. They would build a railroad anywhere there was market for it.

One last bit of information on this: it was this subject that John Cougar was singing about 40 years ago in his song, (which, like "Born in the USA" by Douche Springsteen, was often considered a "patriotic" song, but was actually a harsh critique of life in the US), "Pink Houses".

"There's a black man with a black cat
Livin' in a black neighborhood
He's got an interstate
Runnin' through his front yard
You know he thinks that he's got it so good"



Pete Buttigieg: Biden Infrastructure Bill Delivers Swift Action to Fix Racist Highways

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/...delivers-swift-action-to-fix-racist-highways/

CHARLIE SPIERING 8 Nov 2021

Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg celebrated President Joe Biden’s infrastructure bill on Monday, specifically referring to provisions in the bill to address infrastructure deemed by the federal government as racist.

Buttigieg noted that fixing racist infrastructure was a priority of the Biden administration, as a billion dollars was passed as part of the Reconnecting Communities Initiative in the bipartisan infrastructure bill.

Buttigieg spoke about the program during the White House press briefing, criticizing Americans who even questioned the idea that racist infrastructure projects existed.

“I’m still surprised that some people were surprised that when I pointed to the fact that if a highway was built for the purpose of deciding a white and a black neighborhood,” Buttigieg said.

Some infrastructure projects of the past, he argued, were specifically designed to separate neighborhoods, apologizing for the federal government’s role in the project.

“Sometimes it was federal dollars that divided a community often along racial lines,” he said, pointing to “racism that went into those design choices.”

After a reporter asked Buttigieg how he could “deconstruct racism that was build into the roadways,” the secretary said the administration would “get to work right away” on the project.

“I don’t think we have anything to lose by confronting that simple reality and I think we have everything to gain by acknowledging it and then dealing with it.”

Buttigieg has a history of talking about racist infrastructure, beginning in his campaign and continuing through his Senate confirmation hearings for the cabinet level position.

“There is racism physically built into some of our highways, and that’s why the jobs plan has specifically committed to reconnect some of the communities that were divided by these dollars,” he told the Grio in April.

 

[Occam's Banana]

In regards to racist roads, as they relate to amount of trees, Tucker Carlson shot himself in the foot tonight.

He should have read up on Robert Moses.

What did Tucker say about him? Or did he just miss the opportunity to bring him up?

The last segment of his show today, he was mocking a press conference that was held with Pete Buttplug, where a black reporter asked what his dept. was planning to do about undoing "racist roads", and specifically was laughing at and pooh poohing the idea that roads had been constructed specifically to limit movement of blacks in NYC by limiting road clearances for buses.

https://twitter.com/TuckerCarlson/status/1457906567160995846