Documentary

Racist Trees

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

November 9, 2022

1h 24m

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.