If you had a tour or reenactment somewhere like a former plantation where black
people got to be in the role of the masters, and white
people in the role of slaves, you at least wouldn't have the same controversy and threats about shutting down or defunding something that has been around for a long time (and is loved by many
people) and is intended to be educational or enjoyable and not hateful or abusive. Something as simple as reversing a few roles to give
people a different view of the past than the same one they always have been shown would still teach
people the same thing about history, but without confining one group of people into a pigeonhole, which doesn't make them feel welcome there. If that'
s not good enough for them, they can always go somewhere else, though it's unlikely they will find anywhere that will satisfy their demands if that isn't good enough.
The park went with a role reversal and white
people started protesting about the tour being
racist and threatening to defund the programs while black
people appreciated just having a park to go to where they could opt to go on a tour or not go on a tour, since there was a bunch of shit to do there and a day at the park is usually a good day no matter what shade of
skin you have. Hopefully it wouldn't take a bunch of cops that looked like gangbangers shooting unarmed white
people for white cops to understand that it'
s not a good idea to shoot any unarmed civilians, no matter their shade of skin, even if you think the law will always be on your side no matter what you try to do, because then there would only be a lot more violence on all sides than there already is, and it could happen since anything is possible.