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Racist Trees

Racist Trees

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

2022 1h 24mDocumentary

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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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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racial segregationracism

Behind it

Sara NewensDirectorMina T. SonDirectorJoanna SokolowskiWriterWilliam Ryan FritchComposerJerry HenryCinematography

Cast

Charles Metcalf Jr.Self
Jean MetcalfSelf
Charles Metcalf Sr.Self
Ray WIlliamsSelf
Kevin WilliamsSelf
Trae DanielSelf
Ginny FoatSelf (archive footage)
David ReadySelf (archive footage)
J.R. RobertsSelf
Marcus FullerSelf (archive footage)
Corinne KennedySelf
Rosie Mediano HarmonSelf
Kevin HarmonSelf
Angela JohnsonSelf
Janel HuntSelf
Kurt CyrSelf
Cathie FoxSelf
Donald ArcherSelf

Director

Sara Newens, Mina T. Son

Writers

Sara Newens, Joanna Sokolowski

Release date

9 Nov 2022

Runtime

1h 24m

Studio

Wild Pair Films, Wayfarer Studios

Language

English

Country

United States of America

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