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We’re Not Racists, So Why Aren’t There More Birders Of Color?

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What started as me posting a link on my private Facebook page about how much I hate the Transportation Security Administration, quickly turned into a very revealing conversation about race and could be a very large and underlying issue of why we don’t see more people of color in birding or enjoying nature in general.

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The Irony of The Girl Effect

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For example, Oprah (or Kristof) said: "At the peak of the transatlantic slave trade, 80,000 slaves were transported from Africa to the new world. But it's the same concept that underlies both situations: viewing others as commodities that you have a right to exploit. Our job, it seems to me, is to help them see it.

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