Racist Trees

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

• Movie
• 2022
• 1h 24m
• Documentary

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.

Director

Sara Newens

Starring

Charles Metcalf Jr., Jean Metcalf, Charles Metcalf Sr., Ray WIlliams