Trying to Talk About Slavery With White People or Watching a Sex Scene With Your Parents?

1. Neither of you wants to look at it or talk about it, even though it’s the entire reason you’re even here in this country in the first place.

2. Everyone gets silent, eye contact is avoided, and suddenly literally anything else is more interesting.

3. One of you is disgusted.

4. One of you is kind of turned on.

5. Whatever happens, this moment will stay on your mind for days after.

6. You will reevaluate the people you call your friends.

7. Your Dad fervently swears that this scene wasn’t in it “back when he watched it.”

8. In an effort to relieve the tension in the room someone says, “You have to admit, plantations are kind of beautiful.”

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