The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #53611   Message #828766
Posted By: toadfrog
17-Nov-02 - 11:35 PM
Thread Name: BS: Historic tour slave issue
Subject: RE: BS: Historic tour slave issue
Well, I don't know if the guide was a bad guy, or whether it would be appropriate to punch him out. I sort of think "exploding" is rarely appropriate. Still in all, I grew up in the South, and before I was 16 years old had had it up to here with that kind of BS. Maybe the owner of that particular plantation was a good guy (by somebody's standards) and maybe not. But one way or the other, you KNOW that the guide is going to tell you what a good guy that plantation owner was. That's in the same nature as an urban legend. Just like when I was a kid, EVERY town in the South claimed to have built a better school for their Negroes that the White kids had. And one is never in a position to check out all those stories, but they are just awfully doubtful.