[Bret L]

The Sierra Club Racially Disparages Its Mostly White Membership


[Brenda Walker]

" The Sierra Club posted a silly blog item recently which shows how the organization continues to immerse itself in PC: “Yep, We’re Too White”..

EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson called for greater diversity in the
environmental movement while speaking to the National Environmental
Justice Advisory Council last week. Jackson said that environmentalism
does not come in any one shape, size, or look and that it is also
about protecting people in the places where they live, work, and rear
families. The Sierra Club not only agrees with her, we're also doing
something about it with diversity programs ranging from our
Environmental Justice and Community Partnerships program to Building
Bridges to the Outdoors for inner-city youth.

“We are proud that Sierra Club has successful diversity programs
already established,” said the Sierra Club President Allison Chin.
“Now, with the leadership of a diversity council and my election as
our first Asian-American president, the Sierra Club is committed to
becoming an even more welcoming and inclusive organization.”

For more information about Sierra Club’s diversity programs, go
to: http://www.sierraclub.org/diversity

I like the suggestion of poster Dana Garcia about a strategy to
increase diversity in the Sierra Club:

I agree. [Executive Director] Carl Pope and white staffers making
over $100K should resign to open those positions for persons of color.
It would be a fine way to lead by example — far better than
meaningless programs to increase diversity that actually do little to
advance real change.

The Sierra Club not only disrespected its loyal membership, but also
disregarded its long history as a hiking group. Tromping through
forests and mountains for the fun of it is more of a white thing, just
as ikebana activities attract Asians. Hiking is not a particularly
diverse pursuit.

But the Sierra Club now extends into liberal politics, which means it
must be diverse, and there have been problems arriving at an
acceptable palette of colors: In Environmental Push, Looking to Add
Diversity [New York Times, March 9, 2009]

Even organizations like the Sierra Club, which has incorporated
social justice work since the 1990s, concede that their diversity
efforts have failed to gain traction. The organization’s executive
director, Carl Pope, points at “cultural barriers” that in effect shut
the door to nonwhites regardless of good intentions.

“If you go to a Sierra Club meeting, the people are mostly white,
largely over 40, almost all college-educated, whose style is to argue
with each other,” Mr. Pope said. “That may not be a welcoming
environment.”

Sadly, the Sierra Club has shelved its mission of being a non-partisan
protector of the earth to become a left-wing diversity organization
with hiking boots. It has corrupted itself with both money (the
Gelbaum bribe of $100M to not mention immigration) and socialist
ideology, including support for massive immigration.

One controversy over money has been the selling of the Sierra Club
name to Clorox as a green product endorsement. In the resulting furor,
Club management decapitated the Florida group for objecting to the
deal: Sierra Club removes leadership of its Florida chapter.

The leadership of the Florida chapter had been highly critical of
the national board’s decision in mid-December 2007 to allow The Clorox
Company to use the Sierra Club’s name and logo to market a new line of
non-chlorinated cleaning products called “Green Works.” In return,
Clorox Company will pay Sierra Club an undisclosed fee, based partly
on product sales. The Clorox Company logo will appear on the products
as well. A 2004 report [PDF] by the U.S. Public Interest Research
Group Education Fund named The Clorox Company as one of the nation’s
most chemically dangerous.

Two decades ago, the Club spoke responsibly about immigration and
promoted “population stabilization in the U.S.” But that integrity is
long gone."

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