New York Times: Lawns Are Symbols of Racism and Bad for Global Warming

Not be actin all white and keeping a lawn and shit. Come on.

Next just owning a home will be seen as racist.

yeah, we need needles and shit in our yards like san francisco. Fucking assholes

Not be actin all white and keeping a lawn and shit. Come on.

Next just owning a home will be seen as racist.

Next up...........ban indoor plumbing cause slaves didn't have that.

:thatsracist:

While most Americans are spending time this summer enjoying the sun in the comfort of their houses’ yards, the New York Times is out with a new exposé on how lawn care is problematic, once viewed through the lens of social justice.

Lawns are contributing to pollution and climate change, asserts narrator David Botti, and their origins are far from woke, in a seven-minute video on the history of American lawns.

Botti says lawns are part of the “colonizing of America,” which transformed the landscape from “pristine wilderness” to “identical rows of manicured nature.”

“These lawns come on the backs of slaves,” he continues, zooming in on a painting of George Washington in a field to highlight men cutting the grass with scythes. “It’s grueling, endless work.”

“By the 1870s we also see American culture slowly start to embrace lawns for the privileged masses,” he states.

The video explains that the perfect lawn is associated with being a model citizen, how the first sprinkler was invented in 1871, and about the advent of “so-called trade cards” that “advertised the hell out of lawn and garden products.”

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How about posting the nytimes article instead of the breitbart article.

While most Americans are spending time this summer enjoying the sun in the comfort of their houses’ yards, the New York Times is out with a new exposé on how lawn care is problematic, once viewed through the lens of social justice.

Lawns are contributing to pollution and climate change, asserts narrator David Botti, and their origins are far from woke, in a seven-minute video on the history of American lawns.

Botti says lawns are part of the “colonizing of America,” which transformed the landscape from “pristine wilderness” to “identical rows of manicured nature.”

“These lawns come on the backs of slaves,” he continues, zooming in on a painting of George Washington in a field to highlight men cutting the grass with scythes. “It’s grueling, endless work.”

“By the 1870s we also see American culture slowly start to embrace lawns for the privileged masses,” he states.

The video explains that the perfect lawn is associated with being a model citizen, how the first sprinkler was invented in 1871, and about the advent of “so-called trade cards” that “advertised the hell out of lawn and garden products.”

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do not fk with ppl's lanws...the one thing they will actually flip over...

I would think because most lawns are cared for by labor. I see it every week in my neighborhood.

I do my own lawn, fuck them.

I'm going to plant cotton in my front yard now. That should really trigger them.

They probably REALLY don't like my black lawn jockeys then.

Exactly.

Then without a job they're going to be on welfare.

Great.

So, brown people cant have.... grass?

Not be actin all white and keeping a lawn and shit. Come on.

Next just owning a home will be seen as racist.