Racism

<p>Today in white people behaving badly: a white woman and her white husband were given a tour of a former slave plantation in South Carolina and they did not like it. Why? Because they felt &quot;lectured to and bashed about the slavery.&quot; Holy white entitlement Batman! The <em>whole point</em> of touring a plantation in the south is to learn about slavery, not to enjoy the scenery. And yet....</p><h2>The woman left a 2-star review of the plantation tour in which she said she and her husband were &quot;extremely disappointed&quot; because the tour guide was &quot;so radical about slave treatment&quot; and they &quot;didn&#39;t come to hear a lecture on how the white people treated slaves.&quot;</h2><p>The review was screenshotted and<span style="font-size: 1.1rem; letter-spacing: -0.01em;"> </span><a href="https://twitter.com/sairasameerarao/status/1159193443467481090" style="font-size: 1.1rem; letter-spacing: -0.01em;">shared on Twitter by author Saira Rao</a><span style="font-size: 1.1rem; letter-spacing: -0.01em;">, where it went viral.</span></p><div class="oembedall-container sec-iframe sec-oembed-iframe"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">This is how decent white people who tell the truth about slavery on plantations are reviewed by white people. <a href="https://t.co/xiomBzPpWl">pic.twitter.com/xiomBzPpWl</a></p>&mdash; saira rao (@sairasameerarao) <a href="https://twitter.com/sairasameerarao/status/1159193443467481090?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 7, 2019</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></div><div className="ad-splitter"></div><p>&quot;This is how decent white people who tell the truth about slavery on plantations are reviewed by white people,&quot; wrote Rao.</p><p>The review reads:</p><blockquote> <p>My husband and I were extremely disappointed in this tour. We didn&#39;t come to hear a lecture on how the white people treated slaves, we came to get this history of a southern plantation and get a tour of the house and grounds. The tour guide was so radical about slave treatment we felt we were being lectured and bashed about the slavery.</p> </blockquote><blockquote> <p>My ancestors were from Sicily, never owned slaves, and my husbands were German, and none of his ever owned slaves. I am by far not racist or against all Americans having equal rights but this was my vacation and now we are crossing all plantation tours off our list, it was just not what we expected. I&#39;ll go back to Louisiana and see some real plantations that are so much more enjoyable to tour.</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><p><span style="font-size: 1.1rem; letter-spacing: -0.01em;">A white woman demanding that a tour of a former slave plantation erase its history of slavery to protect her fragile feelings is textbook racism and white privilege run amok. It is also the perfect example of why it&#39;s so incredibly necessary for white people to be educated about our country&#39;s racist history (and present), like this plantation tour attempted to do.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: 1.1rem; letter-spacing: -0.01em;">Citing her husband&#39;s German ancestry as justification for their &quot;innocence&quot; only further highlights the fact that this woman has her head all the way up her a**.</span></p><h2><span style="font-size: 1.1rem; letter-spacing: -0.01em;">People are responding on Twitter by pointing out all of the problems with this reviewer&#39;s horrendously bad and ignorant take.</span></h2><div class="oembedall-container sec-iframe sec-oembed-iframe"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">She just omitted the colonial legacy of both countries or regions and girl, really, Germany. If you don&#39;t get the heck out of here with that mess. There is no conversation about plantation without slavery. Those buildings and land wouldn&#39;t be there without our blood and tears.</p>&mdash; Mama Xavi (@FromNazWithLove) <a href="https://twitter.com/FromNazWithLove/status/1159212088553811968?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 7, 2019</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></div><div className="ad-splitter"></div><div class="oembedall-container sec-iframe sec-oembed-iframe"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Did she really say her folks were German so she&#39;s good? The same Germans who hosted the Berlin Conference of 1865 and divided up the African continent?? <br><br>She wanted Gone With The Wind. Who TF she think was doing all the work while Scarlett sat around?</p>&mdash; Beautifully Balanced (@Symtrees) <a href="https://twitter.com/Symtrees/status/1159227100802486275?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 7, 2019</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></div><div className="ad-splitter"></div><div class="oembedall-container sec-iframe sec-oembed-iframe"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">“We didn’t come to hear about slavery... we came to hear the history of this plantation (that had slaves)”</p>&mdash; Naima Cochrane (@naima) <a href="https://twitter.com/naima/status/1159282005093298176?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 8, 2019</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></div><div className="ad-splitter"></div><div class="oembedall-container sec-iframe sec-oembed-iframe"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">“I went to Mexico and all they did was talk Spanish!”</p>&mdash; Shane 🕊🇺🇦🇾🇪🇵🇸🌎 (@Newsdive_Shane) <a href="https://twitter.com/Newsdive_Shane/status/1159194927621967872?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 7, 2019</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></div><div className="ad-splitter"></div><div class="oembedall-container sec-iframe sec-oembed-iframe"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">She prob shoulda read that before pressing send. “My husbands ancestors were German...” miiiiiight not be the ancestors you wanna point to as a gold standard of behavior.</p>&mdash; Fantastic Mr. Fox (@kingF0X23) <a href="https://twitter.com/kingF0X23/status/1159234415563702273?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 7, 2019</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></div><div className="ad-splitter"></div><h2><span style="font-size: 1.1rem; letter-spacing: -0.01em;">Many people are roasting her by imagining how she would react to other historical tours.</span></h2><div class="oembedall-container sec-iframe sec-oembed-iframe"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">went to the damn archeology museum and indian village and they wouldn’t quit talkin about genocide as if it was somehow my fault!!!</p>&mdash; energy pupil (@sepulturashirt) <a href="https://twitter.com/sepulturashirt/status/1159281541370929152?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 8, 2019</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></div><div className="ad-splitter"></div><div class="oembedall-container sec-iframe sec-oembed-iframe"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">I went to Pompeii to learn about volcanic activity and they just lectured us all day about the people who were incinerated by the lava. 1/5</p>&mdash; Chris PdC (@CPodiumcafe) <a href="https://twitter.com/CPodiumcafe/status/1159332069249413120?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 8, 2019</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></div><div className="ad-splitter"></div><p>Hopefully this woman is on Twitter and saw these responses because she has a LOT of learning to do. The general public is extremely disappointed in her review. Zero stars.</p><div className="ad-splitter"></div>

Woman leave 2-star review of plantation tour because it discussed plantations.

Today in white people behaving badly: a white woman and her white husband were given a tour of a former slave plantation in South Carolina and they did not like it. Why? Because they felt &quot;lectured to and bashed about the slavery.&quot; Holy white entitlement Batman! The whole point of touring a plantation in the south is to learn about slavery, not to enjoy the scenery. And yet....The woman left a 2-star review of the plantation tour in which she said she and her husband were &quot;extremely disappointed&quot; because the tour guide was &quot;so radical about slave treatment&quot; and they &quot;didn&#39;t come to hear a lecture on how the white people treated slaves.&quot;The review was screenshotted and shared on Twitter by author Saira Rao, where it went viral.This is how decent white people who tell the truth about slavery on plantations are reviewed by white people. pic.twitter.com/xiomBzPpWl&mdash; saira rao (@sairasameerarao) August 7, 2019 &quot;This is how decent white people who tell the truth about slavery on plantations are reviewed by white people,&quot; wrote Rao.The review reads: My husband and I were extremely disappointed in this tour. We didn&#39;t come to hear a lecture on how the white people treated slaves, we came to get this history of a southern plantation and get a tour of the house and grounds. The tour guide was so radical about slave treatment we felt we were being lectured and bashed about the slavery.  My ancestors were from Sicily, never owned slaves, and my husbands were German, and none of his ever owned slaves. I am by far not racist or against all Americans having equal rights but this was my vacation and now we are crossing all plantation tours off our list, it was just not what we expected. I&#39;ll go back to Louisiana and see some real plantations that are so much more enjoyable to tour. A white woman demanding that a tour of a former slave plantation erase its history of slavery to protect her fragile feelings is textbook racism and white privilege run amok. It is also the perfect example of why it&#39;s so incredibly necessary for white people to be educated about our country&#39;s racist history (and present), like this plantation tour attempted to do.Citing her husband&#39;s German ancestry as justification for their &quot;innocence&quot; only further highlights the fact that this woman has her head all the way up her a**.People are responding on Twitter by pointing out all of the problems with this reviewer&#39;s horrendously bad and ignorant take.She just omitted the colonial legacy of both countries or regions and girl, really, Germany. If you don&#39;t get the heck out of here with that mess. There is no conversation about plantation without slavery. Those buildings and land wouldn&#39;t be there without our blood and tears.&mdash; Mama Xavi (@FromNazWithLove) August 7, 2019 Did she really say her folks were German so she&#39;s good? The same Germans who hosted the Berlin Conference of 1865 and divided up the African continent?? She wanted Gone With The Wind. Who TF she think was doing all the work while Scarlett sat around?&mdash; Beautifully Balanced (@Symtrees) August 7, 2019 “We didn’t come to hear about slavery... we came to hear the history of this plantation (that had slaves)”&mdash; Naima Cochrane (@naima) August 8, 2019 “I went to Mexico and all they did was talk Spanish!”&mdash; Shane 🕊🇺🇦🇾🇪🇵🇸🌎 (@Newsdive_Shane) August 7, 2019 She prob shoulda read that before pressing send. “My husbands ancestors were German...” miiiiiight not be the ancestors you wanna point to as a gold standard of behavior.&mdash; Fantastic Mr. Fox (@kingF0X23) August 7, 2019 Many people are roasting her by imagining how she would react to other historical tours.went to the damn archeology museum and indian village and they wouldn’t quit talkin about genocide as if it was somehow my fault!!!&mdash; energy pupil (@sepulturashirt) August 8, 2019 I went to Pompeii to learn about volcanic activity and they just lectured us all day about the people who were incinerated by the lava. 1/5&mdash; Chris PdC (@CPodiumcafe) August 8, 2019 Hopefully this woman is on Twitter and saw these responses because she has a LOT of learning to do. The general public is extremely disappointed in her review. Zero stars.

Today in white people behaving badly: a white woman and her white husband were given a tour of a former slave plantation in South Carolina and they did not like it. Why? Because they felt &quot;lectured to and bashed about the...