Yall so uncultured.... snow tubing, skiing and all that is accessible. Black people have to go out and try new things and new places.
I agree, however at the same time I disagree.
I agree that we, as a community, need to get out and do more. There's a lot of shit out there for us to experience.
However... It's not all accessible for people living in the hoods across America, and that's where the majority of us live. And by not accessible, I mean cost-wise. Las Vegas and Phoenix are both situated in valleys surrounded by mountains. It was not often you would see Black faces hiking those mountains. In the winter in Vegas you had skiing on Mt Charleston, again, very few Black folks would partake. Phoenix is a 2hr drive from Flagstaff, where skiing was in abundance. It's rare that Black folks go up there. Michigan is 2nd in the nation for number of ski areas available, yet you'd be hard pressed to see Black folks on the slopes or even cross country through golf courses in the winter.
Why???
A lot of it requires money to take up, and we just ain't got it like that. Expendable income is something we're short on as a group. I know
individually there are those of us that have money to spend on these things, and when we do have it, we're more likely to do it if we're not trying to stay stuck in the hood rut of poppin bottles, flossin' expensive shit, etc. Some of us are more aware that there's a larger world out there than our immediate city, neighborhood, or block and are willing to experience it. The rest rarely do.
I used to cross country ski with the family when I was in middle school and high school. I also raced BMX when I was younger, rode a skateboard around the neighborhood, was into archery, programming computers, and we played tennis as a family. We were also a family of runners.
Nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooobody I went to middle school or high school with fucked with ANY of that shit, it was all seen as "white people shit". Well, almost nobody, I had one friend in high school that was into BMX, skateboarding, and programming but, like me, he wasn't originally from Detroit (he was from Peoria, IL).
I know that was years ago, but the attitudes towards such things really haven't changed.