[seastay]

Snowflakes need fake history to sleep at night.

[kingu]

I don’t know if it’s snowflakes or PC or just marketing pushing more of the ride to reflect the movies (which has been slowly happening since the release of the first one.)

I just want to know if they’re going to stop waterboarding that poor guy in the well; it’s been, what, 50 years? It’s about time he gets to have some dry feet.

[Vigilanteman]

AIn't that the sad truth? You would think most respectable women would want the history preserved about how they were treated as chattel by pirates.

Do you know the television show Who Do You Think You Are? which delves into the past family roots of various celebrities? I do not remember which black celebrity was on, but they delved into the background of his first ancestor who had come to America. The man turned out to be a go-getter who impressed his owner so much that he was allowed to buy his own freedom. The ancestor promptly left Virginia to set up a blacksmith shop just over the Mason-Dixon line in south central Pennsylvania.

He grew so wealthy that he was not only to buy the freedom of a number of slaves (including his future bride) and employ them in various businesses around town which he either owned outright or had strong ties with, but they set up a station on the underground railroad.

I think I would be damn proud to have such an ancestor, but the black celebrity was livid with anger. He'd always imagined his ancestors worked in the cotton fields and were victims of a corrupt system.