Well-Intentioned Black History Project Received This Unexpected Result (VIDEO)

Marge Harlan, a retired psychologist and school teacher, started a black history library in a town called Sedalia, Missouri. There are lots of books and wall displays covering the Civil War, the Civil Rights Movement, and more. Harlan, who is 85, used around $170,000 of her own money to build this thing.

She gets around two visitors a week. She said:

“I sit here a lot by myself wondering if anybody will come today.”

She has added to her museum with a replica of a slave cabin. It stands behind her library in a residential neighborhood. There is a sign on the door that says:

“This is a slave cabin. All who enter make peace with your past and move on.”

This did not get a good reaction, obviously. Cars full of black people drove by and cussed at her. The NAACP hates it, and schools are not going to take any field trips.

One of her friends likened it to “building a replica of Auschwitz in a Jewish neighborhood.”

Rhonda Chalfant, leader of the local chapter of the NAACP said:

“It’s being viewed negatively because most blacks don’t want to be reminded of the horrors of slavery.

There does need to be dialogue about race and how we as humans can understand each other better and get along better. But it has to come without the anger that has been precipitated with the building of the slave cabin. It’s an in-your-face reminder, and some people are very angry.”

Harlen told the AP:

“I feel the only way to get over something is to go through it. Don’t just push it down and pretend it’s not there. I can’t even imagine what it would be like to live in a nation where the government and police didn’t support me and take care of me. It just blows my mind.”

It’s an interesting idea, but this is not the way to do it. Black history does not need to be highlighted in this way.

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