Film · 2022 · Belgesel

Racist Trees

Yönetmen

Sara Newens, Mina T. Son

Süre

84 dk

Oyuncular

Charles Metcalf Jr., Jean Metcalf, Charles Metcalf Sr., Ray WIlliams, Kevin Williams, Trae Daniel, Ginny Foat, David Ready

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.