Racist Trees (2022)

To change the present, sometimes you have to uproot the past

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.

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Charles Metcalf Jr.

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Jean Metcalf

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C

Charles Metcalf Sr.

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R

Ray WIlliams

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K

Kevin Williams

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T

Trae Daniel

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G

Ginny Foat

Self (archive footage)

D

David Ready

Self (archive footage)

J

J.R. Roberts

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M

Marcus Fuller

Self (archive footage)

C

Corinne Kennedy

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R

Rosie Mediano Harmon

Self

K

Kevin Harmon

Self

A

Angela Johnson

Self

J

Janel Hunt

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K

Kurt Cyr

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C

Cathie Fox

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D

Donald Archer

Self

Tucker Carlson

Self (archive footage)

L

Larry Elder

Self (archive footage)

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Andre M. Perry

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Tyrone Beason

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J

Jarvis Crawford

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M

Mildred Browne

Self

R

Richard Milanovich

Self

A

Abdullah Salaam

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Ivory Murrell

Self (voice)

C

Cora Crawford

Self (voice)

J

Janet Zappala

Self (archive footage)

R

Robert Moon

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M

Max Rodriguez

Self (archive footage)

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Brooke Beare

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K

Kris Long

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Suzan Felando

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