Editor
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.
Editor
The woman wonders what her neighbors are doing to deserve so many gifts from the gods. Stone blessings pile up on their altar while the woman receives so few. She has offered those same gods her food, time, and love. What more do they want? Do they want sex? Or something more? Perhaps a bit of flesh?
