‘NATURE, YOU’RE RACIST:’ Black people need ‘safe spaces’ to enjoy great outdoors

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A black journalist took a basic wilderness survival class and discovered that “safe spaces” were being created so that black people can avoid “trauma” from white people.

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Char Adams, a reporter for NBC News’ NBC BLK, wrote in the first-person report about her love of the great outdoors — even though it was considered “white people stuff.”

The class taught Adams things like putting up shelter, starting fires, tying basic knots, poisonous creatures to avoid and filtering water for drinking. But as the lone black woman there, she wondered aloud if communing deeply with nature was “truly a ‘white thing.’”

“What did I get myself into?” she asked herself.

Adams wanted to break the stereotype that black people do not enjoy being outdoors and spoke with other black outdoorsy types who created spaces in order to avoid “harassment” and “trauma” from white people.

While many of the groups were created to find like-minded people, they also wanted to combat racism from the Jim Crow Era, a time when black people were banned from national parks.

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The COVID-19 pandemic, the 2020 election and the Jan. 6, 2021 Capitol riots prompted one woman to find a “space for black women” like herself. She ended up creating a group herself.

“There were a lot of Black people looking for safe spaces to go camping and just experience the outdoors,” Toyin Ajayi, who launched Outdoorsy Black Women in 2021, a “safe space” for black people to go camping where they wouldn’t be harassed or discriminated against.

“People would go to campgrounds, and there would be Trump flags flying everywhere,” Ajayi said. “I wanted to build a safe space for that.”

Adams’ essay was actually published last month but a fresh tweet from NBC News gave it new life — and the Internet was not happy with the revival.

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“Literally no one has been keeping people from hiking based on skin color,” one person wrote.

“Trauma related to being outdoors?” another user asked. “You gotta be sh***ing me.”

Another added: “The word trauma is severely overused.”

One person commented, “Black narcissism is off the charts,” while another joked, “Wow, nature. You’re racist.”