South Carolina
very beautiful but
woo intensely weird
From the article, Alex Murdaugh shines a true light on privilege in the US by Emma Brockes.
That this story unfolds in the south, cradle of the good-old-boy network of near-oligarchical governance, is no coincidence.
I happened to be in South Carolina last week and it’s very beautiful, but woo, to an outsider, it’s intensely weird.
White tour guides lead white tour groups around downtown Charleston, cheerfully pointing out where enslaved people were sold, before pulling up at the gift shop.
Plantation houses, mindful of how times have changed, invite visitors to consider a single slave dwelling on their properties, while advertising the grounds as the “most beautiful gardens in America”.
Use of the passive voice – these houses are “witness to history”, according to the marketing bumf, which is certainly one way of putting it – is rampant.
’bout all I can say is … Boy, HOWDY!
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