Originally published at: Plantation removes racist Juneteenth celebration advertisement, cancels event | Boing Boing
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I’m just dying of shock and surprise to learn that the people who romanticize the slavery era don’t even understand the difference between the rich white fucker who owns the slaves and the sadistic white fucker who supervises their labor.
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Especially when we all understand the term “middle management.”
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I’d say the sadistic fucker who “oversees” the slaves is positioned well above the “middle” part of that spectrum but he still isn’t the one who lives in the big fancy house.
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Well, in terms of slaves/overseers/plantation owner, it’s middle. Truthfully, overseers tended to be poor whites, but were sometimes black, especially in the Deep South.
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Screenshot from Google cache
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Ah, you beat me too it with the screen cap.
Wow. Just woooooowwwwww.
Even if not during Junteenth - wwwoooooowwww.
Evidently of the 4 out of the 5 voices heard that night were to be white, but one was supposed to be black??? Like, WHO would want to be part of that? Or - oh god - were they going to do it in black face? Please tell me I am wrong.
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The sad thing is, there was a way to do this that could have been instructive without being completely idiotic.
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Noooo, now I will never have the chance to know how 19th century racists felt about being able to indulge their racism slightly less. I guess I can stick to reading the 3000 sympathetic interviews with Trump supporters and extrapolating backward…but it’s just not the same. 
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“The overseer is now out of a job. What will he do now that he has no one to oversee from can see to can’t see?”
What the fuck does that even mean?
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I will point this out again - for first hand accounts of slavery, the Library of Congress host The Slave Narratives, where living slaves were interviewed and their words written down in the 30s. The interviews vary in length and detail, but have a lot of vignettes into peoples’ lives.
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I think “can see to can’t see” means sunrise to sunset. Cute way to bring in some of the dialect of the enslaved. 
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I wonder if a disgruntled employee was writing badly on purpose to undermine the event 
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It’s just super clever wordplay
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I looked it up - you’re right.
In other words:
“What will he do now that he has no one to oversee from morning to night?”
I guess folksy sayings are supposed to take the sting out of the fact it was about, you know, slavery. 
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It wouldn’t have been a separate dialect at the time
Presumably everybody in North Carolina talked like that then?
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“Kingdom Coming”?
Maybe what we’re actually reading about is the filming of some bad historical porn? (Like, really bad…)
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