Posted on Jul 12, 2021
Geocaching While Black: Outdoor Pastime Reveals Racism And Bias
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On a sweltering day earlier this summer, Marcellus Cadd was standing in a trendy neighborhood in downtown Austin.
His phone told him he was 20 feet from an object he was honing in on using GPS coordinates. He walked over to a bank of electrical meters on a building, got down on one knee, and started feeling underneath.
"Holy crap, I found it!" he said as he pulled out a small metallic container. Inside was a plastic bag with a paper log. Cadd signed it with his geocaching handle, "Atreides was here."
On a sweltering day earlier this summer, Marcellus Cadd was standing in a trendy neighborhood in downtown Austin.
His phone told him he was 20 feet from an object he was honing in on using GPS coordinates. He walked over to a bank of electrical meters on a building, got down on one knee, and started feeling underneath.
"Holy crap, I found it!" he said as he pulled out a small metallic container. Inside was a plastic bag with a paper log. Cadd signed it with his geocaching handle, "Atreides was here."
Geocaching While Black: Outdoor Pastime Reveals Racism And Bias
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PO1 William "Chip" Nagel
CSM Chuck Stafford Being Garmin is HQ'd Here and I've done some security work for them, I was aware of Geocaching but I hadn't even begun to think about How the Sport could be very Problematic in Some Locations if You're Black or Latino.
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CSM Chuck Stafford
PO1 William "Chip" Nagel - Yep - the old "What are you doing over there?" is very real -- and that's me without the extra stereotyping
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