[Verginius Rufus]

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.

[DrPretorius]

“They can talk about slavery until the cows come home and it won’t do much to increase the number of black visitors.”

I’ve been to national and state parks, historical monuments and forts, and all sorts of museums of art and history all over this coumtry and it is a rare moment indeed to ever encounter black people except as staff and employees. Why is this the case? One could conclude that blacks just don’t seem to have any natural curiosity or intellectual interest in anything like most normal people. But that would be rayciss...

[PallMal]

Maybe some of the blacks there were foreign also, maybe even most of them.