Racist Trees

Nov 9, 2022

1h 24m

★ 0.0

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

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.

Genres

Documentary

Production Companies

Wild Pair Films

Wayfarer Studios

Racist Trees Trailers

Cast

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Charles Metcalf Jr.

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Jean Metcalf

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Charles Metcalf Sr.

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Ray WIlliams

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Kevin Williams

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Trae Daniel

Self (archive footage)

Ginny Foat

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David Ready

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J.R. Roberts

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Marcus Fuller

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Corinne Kennedy

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Rosie Mediano Harmon

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