I know a lot of you are popping out seeds this year and may be running out of places to bring the kiddies or can’t afford the greenery that Dis and the Crew try to charge. Well, look no further!Here’s a trip that will teach those bad kids a thing or two about the quality of life we have here in this country.
You have to know I’m bullshitting. This is what happens when you start using breakdancing to sell Visa cards on tv.
Theme park’s ’slave for a day’ event
Thursday, January 3, 2008
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 uktorture 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.
Americans Ron and Carla Bluntschli, who are behind the project, have set up a foundation to get Memory Village off the ground and have already raised enough money to buy half the land needed for their attraction.
Mrs Bluntschli said: ‘Slavery is a terrible wound. Germany is still suffering trying to get over the Holocaust, and this is a Holocaust that happened for centuries.’
The couple, who have lived in Haiti for 22 years, need $700,000 (£350,000) in total to complete their theme park.
Tweet1 Comment
RSS feed for comments on this post. TrackBack URL
Sorry, the comment form is closed at this time.
You are my inspiration. May I never be one of those friends who offers you their own fears. Live Tureka. Love Tureka. Love Scott. Life is short. You know I ain’t scared of no weddin’ dress Shawty.
Do you. I’m proud of you. I’m support you. Be Happy…Mutha Scrutha’s don’t have to understand.
I can’t wait to throw rice and dance to slow jams…oh……getting King fitted for his suit now baby!!
And your daddy will be there. believe it. I see mine
all the time now.
xoxoxox,
jessica Care mo’
Comment by jesse james — January 12, 2008 @ 12:49 am