#1 2008-01-04 02:59:30
Theme park's 'slave for a day' event
A theme park where visitors 'play' the role of a slave could soon be a reality for guilt-ridden Europeans wanting to come to terms with their ancestors' brutality.
Memory Village will allow visitors to be bound and tortured at a resort in Haiti, which was a slave nation before becoming the world's first black republic. Tourists can play the part of a slave for 12 hours, in which they get a feel for the hardship endured in the Latin American country more than 200 years ago.
They can choose if they want to be spectators or participants. If they take part, they will be given traditional African clothing and then 'kidnapped', chained and forced to march to a slave ship in a mock crossing of the Atlantic.
They will then be part of a re-enactment where slaves were taken to market to be sold and later broken down with torture in quarantine and put to work on a plantation. Towards the end of the 12-hour stay, visitors will take part in a recreation of the slave rebellion which eventually led to the establishment of Haiti. (source)
No word on whether they were also looking to install a Tilt-a-Whirl at Auschwitz.
In semi-related news, the police were called to intercede in a domestic disturbance at the former Mouseketeer's home in LA. I'm sure she was simply grief-stricken at the Bhutto assassination or the Iowa caucus results.
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#2 2008-01-04 03:44:11
pALEPHx wrote:
In semi-related news, the police were called to intercede in a domestic disturbance at the former Mouseketeer's home in LA. I'm sure she was simply grief-stricken at the Bhutto assassination or the Iowa caucus results.
For a moment, I thought you were referring to this.
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#3 2008-01-04 04:48:27
Taint wrote:
For a moment, I thought you were referring to this.
Sorry. That dual-purpose reference actually required being younger than either of us:
"My Heart Became Of Age"
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#4 2008-01-04 05:16:48
"The Remixes"? There was actually enough content to remix?
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#5 2008-01-04 05:38:51
Only a totally fucked up white would accept any responsibility for what happened centuries before they were born and subject themselves to a “slavery reenactment” run by negroes. But then, Haiti is a dangerous Turd World Shithole that no sane person would consider going to for a vacation.
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#6 2008-01-04 08:49:54
fnord wrote:
Only a totally fucked up white would accept any responsibility for what happened centuries before they were born and subject themselves to a “slavery reenactment” run by negroes. But then, Haiti is a dangerous Turd World Shithole that no sane person would consider going to for a vacation.
Like Kenya, Haiti has long been a desination for old white women from Europe and Canada looking for yourng black cock...not even the risk of HIV kept them away.
The slavery thing is just another stupid white trend like whites paying big money to stay overnight in prison.
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#7 2008-01-04 17:09:42
Well, what do either of you think when African-Americans visit West African nations to take "slave tours" of the prisons and docks there? Exploring a valid part of their cultural history, or more guilt tripping?
The grass is always greener...
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#8 2008-01-04 17:48:08
pALEPHx wrote:
In semi-related news, the police were called to intercede in a domestic disturbance at the former Mouseketeer's home in LA. I'm sure she was simply grief-stricken at the Bhutto assassination or the Iowa caucus results.
Britney's so over I don't even think she could get Scotty to fap to her any more.
Forget it- she's dead. It'll just take a little time for her to make it official.
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