By Amber Crawford
Woke hiking groups in Oregon are creating segregated hiking paths for people of color so they won’t have to worry about encountering someone who might be “prejudiced.”
A black actor with the Oregon Shakespeare Festival named Tyrone Wilson goes hiking on his days off, acting as a volunteer hike leader. Wilson is one of the founders of ‘Unlikely Hikers,’ ‘OutGrown,’ and ‘People of Color Outdoors.’
Unlikely Hikers is described on its website as a “diverse, anti-racist, body-liberating outdoor community featuring the underrepresented outdoorsperson.” It is a group for “adventurers who are plus-size & fat, Black, Indigenous, People of Color, queer, trans and non-binary, disabled, neurodivergent, and beyond.”
According to Oregon Live, Wilson’s groups “want to make recreational public land feel more welcoming to people who are more afraid of encountering a person with a prejudice than a mountain lion.”
Being in the state with the third highest mountain lion population in the United States, Oregon hikers should definitely be more concerned about mountain lions.