Have you ever gone to a national park and noticed that minorities are not represented in the exact proportions to the general population?  Well, the New York Times certainly has!  (Can't you imagine a Times reporter getting out of his car in Yosemite, and the first thing he notices is not the breathless beauty around him, but the race of the other people in the parking lot?) The national parks attracted a record 292.8 million visitors in 2014, but a vast majority were white and aging. The most recent survey... found that 22 percent of visitors were minorities, though they make up some 37 percent of the population. That's a gap of 15%!  If there is a racial disparity in any education, job function, or even hobby, racism must be involved, seems to imply the New York Times.  (Not including, of course, racial disparity in the reporting staff, editorial staff, or owners of the New York Times.) A neighbor, Carla DeRise, has been to Mount...(Read Full Post)