Posted on 05/24/2021 6:30:54 PM PDT by yesthatjallen
Rebeccah Kellman says shortly after she moved to Canmore, she remembers going on a hike to Grassi Lakes, which overlooks the Alberta mountain town.
Kellman said another group of hikers was staring at her and whispering, before one woman approached her, put her arm up against hers, and said "Hey, I usually don't see people darker than me climbing out here."
"I was about 21 at the time, and I didn't know what to make of it. I was like OK, clearly I am in a very white-dominated space," Kellman said.
That experience, and others, prompted Kellman to found Darken The Mountains — a community that welcomes Black, Indigenous and People of Colour to outdoor adventures.
"It's not that Black folks don't ski or hike or camp, but my hope with Darken The Mountains is to encourage these people to come out, do new things, or if they already do these things to do them with other Black folks or people of colour," she said.
Kellman is hoping to bring in more representation in outdoor spaces — from challenging the lack of diversity in ads for outdoor gear to creating opportunities for the BIPOC community to enjoy new experiences.
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Apocryphal.
Racists are people who are obsessed with race and make everything about race and manufacture racist microaggressions when the world isn’t as racist as their narrative demands.
The people,who are surprised bythis are ignorant and actually showing their own racism.
If you’re surprised to see “darker” people than you how much of a moron are you, and how big a of a libtard racist are you for that to actually register in your mind?
Colorblind is where you want to be. You dont want race affecting how you treat people? Its when you dont notice what race they are. Thats when everyone is just “people.”
These enlightened libtard butt sniffers would be screaming at MLK today.
Once you get away from the main highway, the mountains block any cell signals
and some people are, well, addicted to their phones
since hiking involves actually “going into” the mountains, away from cell reception, they never leave the busy highway corridor ... often they don’t even leave their cars
Brown Bears Matter.
I call Bull Sheets! I do NOT believe this happened. I believe this is a made-up narrative on par with Jussie Smollett.
Mountains without handrails.
“Kellman said another group of hikers was staring at her and whispering, before one woman approached her, put her arm up against hers, and said “Hey, I usually don’t see people darker than me climbing out here.”
I call BS. Never happened.
“I was about 21 at the time, and I didn’t know what to make of it. I was like OK, clearly I am in a very white-dominated space,” Kellman said.”
‘I was about 21 ‘? An event so clearly etched into her mind and she does not definitely know how old she was? BS!
Will hoodies protect you from the bears?
Race obsessed fanatics. And of course they have no idea that 1 in 4 cowboys at the turn of the century in the American west were black.
No one needed to toot about it; that’s just the way it was.
Hoax
When they’re after you they sure do!
You are assuming that the anecdote was not made up.
“If you’re surprised to see “darker” people than you how much of a moron are you, and how big a of a libtard racist are you for that to actually register in your mind?”
In over 50 years crawling around in the Sierra Nevada mountains, I never once saw a black person beyond the end of the pavement. Not once.
And if I did see one I would be genuinely surprised.
Does that make me a moron racist? Because it would definitely register in my mind.
I know nothing about Canada’s history with black people.Unless I’m mistaken there’s never been any slavery in Canada...or “Jim Crow” laws.
Oh STFU Rebecca
Maybe she needs to check out the scherpas at Sagarmāthā (Everest). I say that somewhat tongue in cheek. However my black friends are Southerners and tell me that winter/winter sports and swimming isn’t their “thing” I always thought that was interesting.
Are you a wok libtard like this woman libsplaining to everyone about race?
If so, then yes you are.
True, but you and i know these kind of people and this rings genuine.
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