Racist Trees

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

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.

• Release date
• November 9, 2022
• Runtime
• 84 min
• Genres
• Documentary
• Director
• Sara Newens

Cast

C

Charles Metcalf Jr. Self

J

Jean Metcalf Self

C

Charles Metcalf Sr. Self

R

Ray WIlliams Self

K

Kevin Williams Self

T

Trae Daniel Self

G

Ginny Foat Self (archive footage)

D

David Ready Self (archive footage)