LOOK! MORE RACISM!

So, the other day I was looking around because I need to spray the yard.

What’s happened is it has rained a lot on weekends which would be the time when I would have the energy to go out and do yard work and although I’ve taken a couple of steps to address the problem the simple fact is that most of the lot is overrun with Poison Ivy and I’ve got no desire to have something else to deal with in terms of skin issues.

So, I have some stuff around here and I was reading the directions and the stuff I do have are chems that kill everything, weeds AND grass and I really don’t want to do that. What little lawn I have I’d like to keep so I as looking for things that will specifically target weeds and the like and there are variations that do just that.

Thing is... in the state I’m living in you can’t get it shipped to you. You can take a quick ride to the two neighboring states and get it but that’s more of a pain in the ass. Also, thanks to the current Administration and their policies the price of gas is going through the roof meaning you have to think before you use your car for anything.

That would lead to a discussion about stupidity and the people currently in power but we can table that for another day - in the meantime let’s get back to killing weeds...

So, I went down the internet rabbit hole and sure enough one of the reasons you can’t buy the stuff is because of ENVIRONMENTAL RACISM!

Seriously.

“The public parks and zoos and playgrounds that low- and moderate-income people use — and especially people of color — they’re killing us,” Black Institute President Bertha Lewis told the Daily News.

Ummm... so here’s the thing. Those parks are there and were built specifically for people who are low and moderate income. It has nothing to do with people’s skin color. When you look at the history of the parks talked about in the piece what’s really incredibly ironic is just what their original use was and how thesse places became parks:

The site was originally occupied by the St. Albans Golf Course and Country Club, which was completed in 1915. The club hosted the 1930 Metropolitan Amateur. The land was seized for the construction of St. Albans Naval Hospital in 1942, and the hospital started operating the next year. In the late 1940s, the temporary structures on the hospital site were replaced with more permanent structures.

After the Vietnam War, St. Albans Naval Hospital saw gradual personnel cuts, and it was ordered to be closed in 1973. After the announcement of the hospital's closure, several plans were proposed for the site. The United States Department of Agriculture wanted to use the site as a regional quarantine center, having searched for possible locations since 1964. Another proposal was to turn the abandoned buildings into a veterans' hospital. In 1974, it was announced that part of the hospital, comprising 74 acres (30 ha) of the hospital's 117-acre (47 ha) total, would be turned over to the General Services Administration and become a United States Department of Veterans Affairs facility. At the time, all naval hospital patients had been relocated to other facilities, and the barracks were set to be demolished. The St. Albans VA Hospital opened in 1976 and is still operating. The VA subsequently offered the unoccupied portion of the land to the city for use as a city park.

 Yep... there is definitely some sinister master plan in operation here.

Or even at this park:

Idlewild Park is bounded by Rockaway Boulevard, Springfield Boulevard, 149th Avenue and Brookville Boulevard. Parks acquired the property in three stages between 1956 and 1964. The first parcel was conveyed to Parks through an agreement reached on April 26, 1956, with the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey. On May 8, 1958, the Board of Estimate assigned additional acreage to the area. Idlewild Park’s size peaked at 224.8 acres on January 27, 1964, through the purchase of private property. On August 24, 1965, Parks ceded 66.1 acres to the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey for the construction of the Nassau Expressway.

Now Roy Wilkins Park is also the site of one of New York State’s Veteran’s Homes and Idlewild Park is located on marshy ground abutting Kennedy Airport but again, there’s an overarching methodology here of ENVIRONMENTAL RACISM at work.

Puhleeeeaaaassssseeee.

The great thing of course is that by using the word racism we can make anyone who opposes our point INTO A RACIST!

This is just priceless.

Get Poison Ivy and then complain about why they aren’t taking care of the parks.