Encinitas4Equality: A Solution in Search of a Problem

It’s widely known that Encinitas has been a hotbed of racism and discrimination against minorities since J.S. Pitcher founded the town in 1881.

Pitcher was a white guy. He started the white supremacy that flowered then flowed through the generations to today. The record of strange fruit hanging from native California fan palms, sycamores and coastal live oaks in Encinitas has been destroyed. 

The fruit continued to hang from imported eucalyptus and Monterey cypress trees. Photo postcards that showed Encinitans celebrating strange fruit have also been destroyed. The written and photographic evidence was burned.

As time marched slowly on, the acts of racial and ethnic violence became less blatant. It’s not correct to say they became subtle, but there was surely a swept-under-the-rug character to the change. Lift a corner of the rug and there the white supremacy was, looking like milk, sugar or snow.

If blacks or ethnic minorities missed the signals and dared to enter Encinitas, let alone tried to settle here, they were quickly ushered to the exits. White supremacy now, white supremacy tomorrow, white supremacy forever was the unmistakable message.

When former slave Nate Harrison tried to make Encinitas his home in the later 1880s, he was ridden out of town on a California Southern rail and banished to the south grade of Palomar Mountain.

Encinitas teachers taught white supremacy in schools, while parents reinforced the agenda at home. Children could not escape the racist mantra. Today it’s more like an undercurrent, but make no mistake, it’s there.

NONE OF THE ABOVE IS TRUE! 

IN FACT, QUITE THE OPPOSITE IS TRUE.

Maybe Encinitas4Equality would be useful in locations where the problems it wants to solve actually exist.