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2020 In 2020, in wake of the George Floyd protests and subsequent public reconciliation of systematic racism in public history, the Sierra Club described their own early history as intermingled with racism.[12] In particular, the early Sierra Club favored the needs of white members to the exclusion of people of color, and Muir and some of his associates, such as Joseph LeConte, David Starr Jordan, and Henry Fairfield Osborn were closely related to the early eugenics movement in the United States.[12][13] Michael Brune, writing as the executive director of the Sierra Club, disavowed founder John Muir in the summer of 2020,[14] but some board members said Brune's characterization of Muir was not representative of the organization.[15]
2020 WP - Liberal, progressive - and racist? The Sierra Club faces its white-supremacist history
As the most iconic figure in Sierra Club history, the group's Wednesday statement said, "John Muir's words and actions carry an especially heavy weight. ...
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Muir, who fought to preserve Yosemite Valley and Sequoia National Forest, once referred to African-Americans as lazy "Sambos," a racist pejorative that many Black people consider to be even more offensive than the n-word.
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No one is more important to the history of environmental conservation than John Muir - the "wilderness prophet," "patron saint of the American wilderness," and "father of the national parks" who founded the nation's oldest
While recounting a legendary walk from the Midwest to the Gulf of Mexico, Muir described Native Americans he encountered as "dirty."
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