Gettysburg, PA

[shadowkat]

Today, I asked my co-worker, whose family hails from Haiti, so she's Haitian-American, how she enjoyed Gettysburg, PA. She'd visited Gettysburg over the Memorial Day Weekend with her fiancee. And she told me that she felt...unsafe, and anxious the whole trip. How surprised and somewhat shocked she was to see the number of confederate flags in the souvenir shop. Across one wall was huge Confederate Flag -- stating it's not about the War or Racism, but about Heritage, and how the South will come back to what it once was -- eventually. The town that they visited was all white. It was the first time she'd been in a place in which she was the only person who wasn't white.

The cafe they ate it -- they were the only non-white patrons. The other patrons were starring at them like they didn't belong. In fact at one point she asked her fiancee if there was something on her face -- because she didn't understand why the people in the table near them were staring at them for so long. When she got back to their room at the hotel, all she could think about is how badly she wanted to go home. The whole weekend she felt anxious and uncomfortable.

Afterwards, she told her fiancee that they were going to research a trip thoroughly before going. And he would have to do his historical war visits with friends, she'd prefer to go to a beach or somewhere that she could relax and chill.


[I deleted the rest of this post, because I decided what I said was not important.]

Comments

[trepkos]

How awful. You'd have thought her fiancee might have thought more carefully before taking her there.