Welcome to the world of the great outdoors, which has apparently been hijacked by white colonizers who ruined nature for everyone with all their whiteness.

Enter Char Adams, a black woman who found herself frightened half to death while driving through [checks notes] rural Texas to a wilderness survival school, and got paid by NBC to write about the experience:

I couldn't help but feel anxious as I drove deeper into rural northern Texas. The familiar coffee shops and apartment buildings of downtown Dallas faded into swaths of land with cattle and single-family homes surrounded by greenery in Allen. I would be spending the weekend in native Blackland Prairie grassland for Texas Survival School's basic wilderness survival class.

I too feel anxious when I'm driving through fertile farmland and the beauty of nature. It's far more frightening than dodging needles and muggers in America's cities!

My friends and family had mixed reactions when I told them I'd be with a bunch of strangers camping and learning to build a fire, navigate land, deliver "wilderness" first aid, learn water safety and more. Some thought it cool and exciting, others delivered a familiar axiom, "That's white people stuff!"

That's right. Skills that have been used by every civilization across the globe since the dawn of time are "white people stuff."

So I wasn't surprised that most of the two dozen participants — a mix of adults and children — were white. I was one of four Black people in the class, including three Black men, one of whom was an instructor. I was the only Black woman, and I caught curious glances from some of the other participants as I piled my box braids on top of my head to keep the bugs out of my hair.

Let's do some math.

In other words, 4 out of 24 people, or 16% of the participants, were black.

This is compared to 13% of Americans who are black.

Huh.

After Adams opines on her initial experience, she says this:

Was communing deeply with nature truly a "white thing?" I found that that couldn't be further from the truth.

In other words, water is wet and the sky is blue.

You were paid to write this for NBC??

Not only does Black culture boast a rich history with nature, Black people across the country are reclaiming the outdoors by forming their own communities of nature enthusiasts.

Ah, there it is.

Did you see it?

"Reclaim."

Why would you need to "reclaim the outdoors"? Is there a specific law you can cite anywhere in the United States today that bars black people from hiking, fishing, camping, climbing, etc.?

Of course not. But in the race-based Marxist's thinking, nature must be liberated from the oppressor, and the only people who can be the villains in their framework have DNA that codes for skin with less pigmentation.

I'm over here watching black people compete on wilderness shows like "Race Across Alaska," while the recent winner of the History Channel survival show "Alone" was a Hispanic immigrant. But the wokies aren't happy with that I guess.

This is why other outlets, like the LA Times, have written articles like this:

Back to Adams. She quotes Jessica Newton, who set up an outdoor adventure company for black people.

"Throughout history, we weren't even allowed to go to national and state parks because of the color of our skin. There is trauma related to being outdoors," Newton added. "There's a lot of healing that we as a Black community must do in order to reconnect and deepen our relationship with the outdoors, because it's our natural birthright to be there."

That link takes you to a CNN article that laments how white people "romanticized nature" in the 1800s and that men like Teddy Roosevelt thought whites "would become inferior if they became too soft."

It isn't that there weren't racist laws that banned black people from certain parks and national forests.

But nearly no one alive today - certainly not those who are of the age to be climbing mountains - were alive when such laws were in place. National parks were desegregated, for example, in 1945.

But you're telling me a millennial black woman is too "traumatized" to go hike a trail?

It's no coincidence that Yellowstone, the first national park in the U.S., was established shortly after the Civil War.

That's right. Yellowstone was founded to uphold racism, ladies and gentlemen. There were obviously zero other reasons that it was made a national park except to elevate white people at the expense of black people.

Adams connects these two points together to close:

Shenandoah National Park in Virginia, which had a "negro area" and barred Black people from other parts of park, remained segregated until 1950.

Black people made up just 6% of visitors to the country's 424 national parks in 2018, according to the most recent data from the National Park Service.

Yes, there was still one national park [checks notes] 73 years ago that segregated Americans by skin color; therefore, the fact that black people visit national parks at half the rate expected by perfect Marxist equity means generational oppression is keeping black people down.

The logic is astounding!

(But I've heard logic and reason are white supremacist ideas too...)

These outdoorsy folk might have some thoughts about that: