In white Adirondacks, racism may be toughest hill to climb Far from city streets filled with demonstrators, racial reckonings also are playing out in rural areas like New York's Adirondack MountainsLAKE PLACID, N.Y. -- Nicole Hylton-Patterson moved to the Adirondack Mountains to help make this vast, and overwhelmingly white, region more welcoming to people who, like her, are Black. With relatively few Black people here, white people fill out Black Lives Matter rallies and host online antiracism forums. It looks like the Adirondack Park,” said Hylton-Patterson, who became the first director of the Adirondack Diversity Initiative late last year. White people comprise 95% of the population in some parts of the Adirondacks. Hylton-Patterson is used to living in white areas, noting that as a child she lived on a remote island in Norway.

Source: ABC News September 14, 2020 14:02 UTC