Documentary

Racist Trees (2022)

Name: Racist Trees
Genre: Documentary
Released: 2022-11-09
Duration: 84 min
Rating: 0
Cast: Charles Metcalf Jr., Jean Metcalf, Charles Metcalf Sr., Ray WIlliams, Kevin Williams

"To change the present, sometimes you have to uproot the past"

1h 24m English Released

Director: Sara Newens, Mina T. Son

Overview

Can a tree be racist? A few years ago, debate on this issue reached as far as Fox News. The focus was a row of tamarisk trees along a huge golf course in Palm Springs, which screened off the neighborhood of Crossley Tract. This is a historically Black neighborhood, named after its founder Lawrence Crossley, who was one of the first Black residents to settle in the largely white tourist paradise, established on indigenous land over a century ago.