Racist Trees
“To change the present, sometimes you have to uproot the past”
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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.
Director: Sara Newens
Charles Metcalf Jr.
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Jean Metcalf
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Charles Metcalf Sr.
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Ray WIlliams
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Kevin Williams
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Trae Daniel
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Ginny Foat
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David Ready
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