So I took some decent shots when we drove to Charleston from our place in Myrtle Beach. Charleston, in case you don’t know (or care to know), was one of the first slave ports in the US–and there’s a shitload of history everywhere. It’s seriously like going back in time walking around the downtown areas…and somewhat off-putting. We planned on visiting a few historic plantations, on some re-connecting-with-roots goodness, but this White dude at the gate wanted 16 bucks to go drive around.

 16 bucks?

I was in a car with 3 other Black people, and here was this old White dude trying to charge us money to tour a place where we should have unlimited privileges. Anyone should be able to see the irony of us trying to get on a plantation. In retrospect, we should have filled out time cards for about 300 years of labor (plus hella overtime) and asked for payment on arrival. Ah well. Still tryin’ to make money off us. We declined. It was odd being ankle deep in slave-central and nobody seemed to talk about it, and it was annoying that the bourgie downtown that Blacks built only had rich Whites inhabiting their 1800’s era colonial Black-built mansions.

Besides that, we had fun.

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