caretaker

I thought this was a good article.
https://afroculinaria.com/2019/08/09...tors-sit-down/
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Lion in Winter

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A very well-expressed thought. There are some folks who inhabit TIO who need to grasp it.

Mr Weeze

Lion in Winter

So many people who have never lived in the US fail to understand how raw and recent this all is, and the ongoing effects in US culture and society as a whole. This lack of knowledge in turn cultivates a huge empathy failure.

retzie

Tbh, I find it's all too easy to remain unaware while living here as well. I guess it depends where you live and what colour you are, but I find I have to go out of my way. And when I do, I still find it amazingly difficult to conceptualize that so much trauma happened in living memory.

Lion in Winter

Agreed. I work for a non-profit whose facilities were only desegregrated in 1968. It's astonishing when I think of my childhood in London happening at the same time and what that was like.

OH went on a tour of a southern plantation in the 90s, and the tour guide pointed out the "workers' accommodations" and wasn't at all happy when OH said "you mean the slave huts".

Hiro11

To me, touring a plantation is akin to touring a concentration camp. It's a solemn occasion, meant to reflect on the our shared history and attempt to better understand how this history is reflected today. The behavior this article discusses is obviously disgusting and ignorant, but I agree with some above that it's hardly surprising.