Uh oh, Burning Man founder just put his foot in his mouth

[Anti Federalist]

Oh, the horror.


Why Do Hardly Any Black People Attend Famed Festival in Middle of Desert? Burning Man’s Founder Has a Theory

http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2015/09/05/why-do-hardly-any-black-people-attend-famed-festival-in-middle-of-desert-burning-mans-founder-has-a-theory/

Larry Harvey, founder of the decidedly off-the-beaten-path Burning Man festival, apparently has an attendance problem.

According to the festival website, “Once a year, tens of thousands of people gather in Nevada’s Black Rock Desert to create Black Rock City, a temporary metropolis dedicated to community, art, self-expression, and self-reliance.”

The description ends like so: “In this crucible of creativity, all are welcome.”

Indeed, while the fest is pushing nearly 70,000 attendees, the problem is that one particular group of people is barely attending Burning Man — namely, black people.

The Guardian noted:


According to the most recent Black Rock city census, complied yearly by a team of academic demographers and anthropologists to determine the makeup of the festival, 87% of burners identified as white; 6% identified as Hispanic, 6% as Asian, and 2% as Native Americans (figures rounded) – on the latter of whose ancestral lands the event occurs. The smallest demographic of burners – 1.3% – identified as black. According to the census, which also measures income, this means that the temporary city is home to twice as many people who earn $300,000 a year as it is to black people.

The paper added Harvey’s theory on why this is: “I don’t think black folks like to camp as much as white folks.”

Harvey, who has black family members, expanded on his premise by invoking his take on U.S. history.

“Remember a group that was enslaved and made to work,” he told the Guardian. “Slavishly, you know in the fields. This goes all the way back to the Caribbean scene, when the average life of a slave in the fields was very short. And, so, there’s that background, that agrarian poverty associated with things. Maybe your first move isn’t to go camping. Seriously.”

It’s worth noting that first on the list of Burning Man’s “10 Principles” is “radical inclusion.”

[LibertyEagle]

I'm missing how he put his foot in his mouth. :confused:

[Slave Mentality]

I'm missing how he put his foot in his mouth. :confused:

Check your privilege. We all know it's racism if blacks don't want to go to the desert to eat shrooms whilst pedaling around on a whale dick tricycle listening to Skrillex and eating some vegan bullshit.

[LibertyEagle]

Check your privilege. We all know it's racism if blacks don't want to go to the desert to eat shrooms whilst pedaling around on a whale dick tricycle listening to Skrillex and eating some vegan bullshit.

Excuse me, but I don't have any "privilege".

[tod evans]

The smallest demographic of burners – 1.3% – identified as black

Clearly government intervention and subsidizing are required post haste! :rolleyes:

[angelatc]

Anything I post here would be incredibly racist. Funny, but racist. So I will refrain.

[erowe1]

The easiest way to defuse any potential problem here would just be to have more of the Burning Man attendees identify themselves as black.

[erowe1]

I don't really think he put his foot in his mouth either though.

[oyarde]

Not attending a big , sausage fest sounds like good sense to me.

[morfeeis]

I thought about posting a photo or two of the family camping trips we go on where more than 30 people of all races attend, but then i said screw it. it's burning man i don't want to go because i hate hippies not because i'm black...

[Anti Federalist]

I'm missing how he put his foot in his mouth. :confused:


I don't really think he put his foot in his mouth either though.

No, because you guys think rationally.

Boobus does not.

[Anti Federalist]

I thought about posting a photo or two of the family camping trips we go on where more than 30 people of all races attend, but then i said screw it. it's burning man i don't want to go because i hate hippies not because i'm black...

Hippies and lefties and hipsters milling about in broiling hot, dust storm riddled desert in August.

Yeah, not my cup o tea either.

[Anti Federalist]

Check your privilege. We all know it's racism if blacks don't want to go to the desert to eat shrooms whilst pedaling around on a whale dick tricycle listening to Skrillex and eating some vegan bullshit.


Clearly government intervention and subsidizing are required post haste! :rolleyes:

Comrades Mentality and Evans clearly understand the problem.

[heavenlyboy34]

No, because you guys think rationally.

Boobus does not.
This^^

[oyarde]

Hippies and lefties and hipsters milling about in broiling hot, dust storm riddled desert in August.

Yeah, not my cup o tea either.

Makes me feel dirty just thinking about it , like attending the Dem convention or something .....

[CPUd]

You could probably do well selling sunscreen out there.
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[Anti Federalist]

Not to mention it costs $390 a head and the place is crawling with cops and feds.

[Danke]

Excuse me, but I don't have any "privilege".

I thought you were black.

[fr33]

Anything I post here would be incredibly racist. Funny, but racist. So I will refrain.Same. If a few thugs did the math they'd figure out that the cost of gas vs the drugs taken at gunpoint from unarmed liberals = profit. Add to it the likelihood of victims not calling the police and the profit margins increases.

[dannno]

Not attending a big , sausage fest sounds like good sense to me.

http://cdn.acidcow.com/pics/20130719/burning_man_19.jpg


http://static.businessinsider.com/image/5230dc31eab8ea897ba48e6f/image.jpg


https://chivethethrottle.files.wordpress.com/2011/09/burning-man-500-costumed-girls-at-burning-man-1-wtmk.jpg



http://cooldudestuff.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/Girls_Burning-Man_25.png


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[Slave Mentality]

Excuse me, but I don't have any "privilege".

You don't have a sense of humor either.

[phill4paul]

....

I'm pretty sure I'm going to jail for viewing that last picture.

[JK/SEA]

I'm pretty sure I'm going to jail for viewing that last picture.

they're all cops...

[satchelmcqueen]

http://cdn.acidcow.com/pics/20130719/burning_man_19.jpg


http://static.businessinsider.com/image/5230dc31eab8ea897ba48e6f/image.jpg


https://chivethethrottle.files.wordpress.com/2011/09/burning-man-500-costumed-girls-at-burning-man-1-wtmk.jpg



http://cooldudestuff.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/Girls_Burning-Man_25.png


http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-AHS_wlg_ow8/TkYkBi7nSkI/AAAAAAAABVw/vazV-TiQ2wE/s1600/DSC01431.JPG

i must go there.....

[rpfocus]

i must go there.....

It's better than that, and also worse than that. You're going to see a lot what you want to see, and a LOT of stuff you don't want to see. Know what you're getting into.

[Anti Federalist]

LOL


Check your privilege. We all know it's racism if blacks don't want to go to the desert to eat shrooms whilst pedaling around on a whale dick tricycle listening to Skrillex and eating some vegan bullshit.


Not attending a big , sausage fest sounds like good sense to me.


Hippies and lefties and hipsters milling about in broiling hot, dust storm riddled desert in August.

Yeah, not my cup o tea either.

[UWDude]

I don't really think he put his foot in his mouth either though.

Well, it showed his ignorance, and how stupid his theory is.

I think the music and culture just doesn't jive well with black culture. It has nothing to do with the black man's history of slavery.

[Slave Mentality]

Those hotties turn into 60 year old hairy assed men in thongs after the lightweights get their shirts and go home. Picture The Road Warrior on hallucinogens.

[paleocon1]

No foot in mouth in evidence.

[Anti Federalist]

2017 Burning Man underway

[Anti Federalist]

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[Anti Federalist]

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[Anti Federalist]

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[timosman]

Not to mention it costs $390 a head and the place is crawling with cops and feds.

Sausage fest.

[timosman]

Those hotties turn into 60 year old hairy assed men in thongs after the lightweights get their shirts and go home. Picture The Road Warrior on hallucinogens.

That would be terrible.;)

[phill4paul]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6sYCFbBDe8w

[timosman]

Nice visuals.

[anaconda]

Do Republicans attend Burning Man?

[oyarde]

Do Republicans attend Burning Man?

They are at work.

[anaconda]

They are at work.

http://s3.amazonaws.com/dk-production/images/32/large/Mitt-Romney-bain-capital.jpg?1339102999

[hard@work]

Grover Norquist went the same year as Dennis Kucinich. Grover partied with "absinthe" (sure), Dennis showed up in slacks. I've been to this event twice. Learned a lot about anarchism and free exchange there. The original group was very radical libertarian, including bringing firearms. It's now filled with pro-war pro-state apologists who make me want to vomit. Between them and the sheer effing waste of resources this event is I don't know if I'll return. I can only imagine what it's going to be like now with a bunch of dumbasses running around with #resist style art. Not even cognizant that the event in itself was "resisting" effectively since 1994.

I would rather do things that matter. Like volunteering or building for charity. Cleanup local beaches instead of my "leave no trace" camp. Or feed 100 homeless families / veterans than sometimes pretentious privileged liberals who didn't bring their own food ("radical self-reliance").

That said, the artistic expression is 10/10 and the people are very friendly. Plenty of productive people who work hard in all aspects of life, and share their work. There are technologists there that work on refugee shelters and other survivalist tech. Engineers are very present who make some amazing productions. That latter part being the only reason I'd return. Last time I was going to go I was working on a weather balloon / virtual reality experience as an example.

Grover Norquist dressed for the event:

https://cdn1.ijr.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/1-40VZJT5X5ZZH13gkSgm_Cw.jpeg

Norquist with the founder Larry Harvey:

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Kucinich the same year, oddly. And in slacks:

https://burnersxxx.files.wordpress.com/2014/09/29-dennis-kucinic-burning-mann-w529-h352-2x.jpg

[Anti Federalist]

Blistering heat, dust storms, pretentious hippies/lefties, biting desert bug infestations.

Yah, won't see me there anytime soon. I'll go to PorcFest instead.


Fire, Dust Storms, and Scorching Heat: This Year's Burning Man Sounds Like the End of Days

http://gizmodo.com/fire-dust-storms-and-scorching-heat-this-years-burnin-1798662696

These types of storms are a semi-common occurrence at the festival that attracts 70,000 people each year. But the heat this time around will be exceptional. “A lot more will be burning than just the wooden figure,” National Weather Service meteorologist Mark Deutschendorf told the San Francisco Chronicle. Forecasts predict this could be the hottest iteration of the event ever. Temperatures will be in the upper 90s until the weekend when they’re expected to hit 102 degrees. According to Deutschendorf, historical temperature records show the last time there was a multi-day heat wave in the region was in 1949. And the only time temperatures topped 100 degrees during a festival day was on Aug. 30, 2007.

[dannno]

Check your privilege. We all know it's racism if blacks don't want to go to the desert to eat shrooms whilst pedaling around on a whale dick tricycle listening to Skrillex and eating some vegan bullshit.

I know two black guys who would love nothing more than to go to the desert to eat shrooms whilst pedaling around on a whale dick tricycle listening to skrillex and eating some vegan bullshit.

One of them is probably there, the other is too busy working for a living.

[dannno]

Blistering heat, dust storms, pretentious hippies/lefties, biting desert bug infestations.

Yah, won't see me there anytime soon. I'll go to PorcFest instead.


Fire, Dust Storms, and Scorching Heat: This Year's Burning Man Sounds Like the End of Days

http://gizmodo.com/fire-dust-storms-and-scorching-heat-this-years-burnin-1798662696

These types of storms are a semi-common occurrence at the festival that attracts 70,000 people each year. But the heat this time around will be exceptional. “A lot more will be burning than just the wooden figure,” National Weather Service meteorologist Mark Deutschendorf told the San Francisco Chronicle. Forecasts predict this could be the hottest iteration of the event ever. Temperatures will be in the upper 90s until the weekend when they’re expected to hit 102 degrees. According to Deutschendorf, historical temperature records show the last time there was a multi-day heat wave in the region was in 1949. And the only time temperatures topped 100 degrees during a festival day was on Aug. 30, 2007.

I think I prefer the smaller 3 or 4 day festivals like Lightning in a Bottle to a full week in the desert, but a lot of people I know say it's worth it. The bug thing is pretty weird, I guess they are just passing through this year.

[jllundqu]

Why can't I rep erowe1? The posts don't have the little star icon for me. :confused:

[Anti Federalist]

Reveler who lept into the flames of blazing effigy in front of 70,000 stunned Burning Man festival-goers has DIED

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4848026/Man-ran-flames-Burning-Man-festival-died.html#ixzz4rgizuZaN

By Paddy Dinham For Mailonline and Regina F. Graham For Dailymail.com

Published: 05:10 EDT, 3 September 2017 | Updated: 22:23 EDT, 3 September 2017

A man rescued from the flames at the Burning Man festival’s signature burning of a towering effigy has died after being airlifted to a hospital.

Pershing County Sheriff Jerry Allen said the man ran through a human-chain of security officers at about 10:30 p.m. Saturday during the Man Burn event at the counter-culture festival.

The sheriff said the man was rescued by firefighters and later died at the UC Davis hospital burn center in California.

He has been identified as Aaron Joel Mitchell, 41, who grew up in McAlester, Oklahoma, but was living in Switzerland, according to the Reno Gazette-Journal.

http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2017/09/03/09/43DB2B3100000578-4848026-A_Burning_Man_participant_evading_the_attempted_ta ckles_of_multi-a-26_1504427167746.jpg

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[FunkBuddha]

Reveler who lept into the flames of blazing effigy in front of 70,000 stunned Burning Man festival-goers has DIED

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4848026/Man-ran-flames-Burning-Man-festival-died.html#ixzz4rgizuZaN

By Paddy Dinham For Mailonline and Regina F. Graham For Dailymail.com

Published: 05:10 EDT, 3 September 2017 | Updated: 22:23 EDT, 3 September 2017

A man rescued from the flames at the Burning Man festival’s signature burning of a towering effigy has died after being airlifted to a hospital.

Pershing County Sheriff Jerry Allen said the man ran through a human-chain of security officers at about 10:30 p.m. Saturday during the Man Burn event at the counter-culture festival.

The sheriff said the man was rescued by firefighters and later died at the UC Davis hospital burn center in California.

He has been identified as Aaron Joel Mitchell, 41, who grew up in McAlester, Oklahoma, but was living in Switzerland, according to the Reno Gazette-Journal.



I'd love to see a flow chart for the logic that went into this decision.

[VIDEODROME]

I'd like to go for the Art Projects, Custom Cars, and meeting Silicon Valley Tech people who come to BurningMan to network and share projects.

[Slave Mentality]

Looks like Ole Jerry took "Burning Man" literally. Don't eat the brown acid, man.

[Anti Federalist]

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