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To: Drew68

“But some visitors, who remain overwhelmingly white”

...not that there’s anything wrong with that...


2 posted on 09/08/2019 3:23:57 PM PDT by rightwingcrazy (;-)
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To: rightwingcrazy

“...not that there’s anything wrong with that...”

I’ve been overwhelmingly white my entire life.


34 posted on 09/08/2019 3:58:11 PM PDT by dljordan
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To: rightwingcrazy
I read a long time ago that the National Park Service was unhappy that very few black people were interested in visiting their sites so they have been trying to make as many as possible of them all about slavery. They can talk about slavery until the cows come home and it won't do much to increase the number of black visitors.

I visited Mount Vernon a few years ago, which of course is not government-run. They were trying to highlight the lives of the slaves but it did not overwhelm the attention paid to George Washington and his life. There were some black tourists there but probably the foreign tourists outnumbered them.

35 posted on 09/08/2019 4:00:09 PM PDT by Verginius Rufus
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