Posted on 12/23/2013 11:44:00 PM PST by Impala64ssa
...sparking outrage among her Real Housewives Of Atlanta cast-mates
Her grandfather was famous civil rights leader Hosea Williams.
But Porsha Stewart appears embarrassingly ignorant about her country's history.
The 32-year-old reality star revealed that she thought the Underground Railroad was a real train on Sunday night's episode of The Real Housewives Of Atlanta.
Porsha and her cast-mates were seen going on a so-called Freedom Trail tour in Savannah, where they visited a church used as part of the Underground Railroad, the term given to the network of people who helped slaves escape from the South to the North during the 1800s.
The tour guide explained to the women that the holes in the floor of the church were used as ventilation for the people passing through a secret crawl space under the building.
Porsha then expressed her confusion, and betrayed her ignorance.
'Well there has to be an opening for the railroad at some point because somebody's driving the train,' Porsha replied, genuinely perplexed.
'It's not electric like what we have now,' she added as the tour guide laughed nervously.
'It wasn't a train, baby,' Phaedra Parks said as the other cast-members stood by in shock. 'That was just a euphemism, baby.'
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Get on board!
/boogie down
Like the German auto, she has two seats.
Well, she is only allowed to study history one month a year.
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