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There's at least one organization working to fix that lingering impact. Outdoorafro.org is all about linking Black Americans with the parks and wild places that have historically been off-limits, dangerous, or discouraged.
I would love to see more people of color embracing America's wilds, if we had larger communities of color in the woods it wouldn't feel so dangerous out there. Diversity leads to people not feeling like they own a thing and can make rules about who belongs there.
I would also love to see more progressives broadly reclaim the US flag and responsible gun ownership. I feel we lost the country because we let them plaster themselves with propaganda and made it feel "gross" to support our country. We allowed the seeding of far too much "America Bad" sentiment and it led to too many young people tuning out and not caring what happens to our home.