Oh I know…
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The controversy over whether the trees should be removed might have remained a small local issue if it wasn’t for a 2017 article in the local paper, the Desert Sun. Reported by Corinne Kennedy, the piece drew worldwide attention, and the idea of “racist trees” riled up Tucker Carlson and other right-leaning media outlets, which fanned outrage over the idea that trees could be cut down as “punishment.”
But despite the Fox News outrage, it wasn’t that the trees themselves were racist. As the documentary explains, the possibility that the trees could have been planted with the intent of segregating the neighborhood from the golf course, plus the nuisance the tamarisks were continuing to create, raised issues of equity in the community. The Crossley tract in eastern Palm Springs was built by Lawrence Crossley, an early Black developer who wanted to provide higher quality dwellings for the city’s Black residents, who often could only find sub-standard housing. The houses alongside a golf course in the small subdivision would usually be prime real estate, but at some point in the early 1960s, a large row of shaggy tamarisk trees was built to divide the houses from the golf course.
It’s a question lost to history whether the intent was to keep Black residents out of sight from golfers or merely to catch stray golf balls, but over the years the trees grew huge and started hogging water and dropping massive amounts of needles, creating a fire hazard and a playground for rats. And not only did they block the green fairways of the golf course, they grew so tall they blocked the view of the mountains beyond, one of the prime attractions of living in Palm Springs.
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PLEASE NOTE:
During the ongoing healthcare situation, we require that all terrorist visitors:
- Properly wear a mask.
- Have at least one valid photo ID.
- Carry a completed organ donor permission card.
Thank you for your cooperation.
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Really? 
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“He continued, n*****, f*****, k***, we are not one bit prejudiced.”
What a fargging icehole.
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More hissy fit signs north and/or west of the hudson valley
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Saw similar this past summer, driving from AUS down to Aransas area. Upside-down flags with “Trump’s still my president” etc. (Nice drive though, otherwise, thru a part of the state I hadn’t otherwise seen)
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Are you sure that wasn’t rural Indiana? Way too similar.
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She is right about it being a “no-brainer”, but not in the way she thinks
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Or what? What’s the consequence if Trump loses and refuses to support your nominee?
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There are so many things that could go wrong! Since he is a loser and we know that more voters dislike him than like him having him support your nominee might hurt more than it helps 
Plus loyalty pledges to a person, a flag, or a shirt are fascist by their very nature so she is saying the quiet part out loud again, as is the fashion (fascsion?) these days
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I think they forgot that cable and satellite providers sell ads on those networks too. Shame
Oh well at least a ton of those ads can still be brought to air in conservative areas of the country
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latest conspiracy theories
Bruce Abramson, PhD, JD, is the author of five books, most recently “The New Civil War: Exposing Elites, Fighting Utopian Leftism, and Restoring America” (RealClear Publishing, 2021). He is president of the strategic consultancy Informationism, Inc. and a director of the American Center for Education and Knowledge.
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Also having the public endorsement of one’s former rivals loses a little bit of its prestige when everyone knows that said rivals were coerced into a pledge of support before knowing who the winner would be.
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