Racist Trees plot
"To change the present, sometimes you have to uproot the past"
Can a tree be racist? The answer to that question was debated as far back as Fox News several years ago. At the heart of the discussion was a row of tamarisks along a huge golf course in Palm Springs, obscuring the Crossley Tract neighborhood from view. This was once a predominantly black neighborhood, named after founder Lawrence Crossley, who settled almost a century ago as one of the first black residents in what was then snow-white tourist paradise. According to residents of Crossley Tract, the trees were instrumental in a policy of segregation.