Vice President Kamala Harris visited the Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, on Friday, November 5, “to see vital climate science work.”
During a presentation on how NASA uses technology to map out climate and changes in the climate, the VP asked,
“Can you measure trees — part of that data that you are referring to, [and it’s an issue of] EJ, environmental justice — that you can also track by race their averages in terms of the number of trees in the neighborhoods where people live?”
This resulted in many on social media ridiculing the vice president online and even referring to this incident as #BlackTreesMatter .
When my brother heard of Ms. Harris’ question, he asked whether she was speaking of black neighborhoods. He lives on four acres and is surrounded by trees, which he noted as evidence that his property has a surplus of trees.
His response got my fractal mind to wonder whether, if black trees matter, do green trees matter as well?
Do green trees possess green privilege?
Do green trees know they obviously are green privileged?
Which political party recognized green trees were green privileged and demanded other colored trees be equally represented?
Should tree huggers protest the obvious discrimination against trees of color (other than green)?
Should green trees be ashamed of their green-ness?
Since green trees have more chlorophyll than trees which are not green, shouldn’t green trees provide reparations to non-green trees so that all trees have the same amount of chlorophyll. Without this happening, would equity ever be achieved?
And do black trees tend to become green with envy?
All this talk of climate change, #BlackTreesMatter and green privileged trees is making me see red.
