Racist Trees
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1hr
24mins
Directed by
Sara Newens,
Mina T. Son,
Steve Sarowitz,
Mike Jackson
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Starring
Charles Metcalf Jr.,
Jean Metcalf,
Charles Metcalf Sr.,
Ray WIlliams
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Can a tree be racist? A few years ago, debate on this issue reached as far as Fox News. The focus was a row of tamarisk trees along a huge golf course in Palm Springs, which screened off the neighborhood of Crossley Tract. This is a historically Black neighborhood, named after its founder Lawrence Crossley, who was one of the first Black residents to settle in the largely white tourist paradise, established on indigenous land over a century ago.