Slavery Theme Park?

**Wes** · #1 01-04-2008, 02:52 PM

http://www.metro.co.uk/weird/article...2&in_page_id=2 **Warning the link above is to a news site, that currently has a picture with some backside nudity. Don't say I didn't warn ya.**

Hmmm...I think we've gone to the bizarre when people are actually talking about building a theme park themed around slavery.

Discuss.

Quote:

A theme park where visitors 'play' the role of a slave could soon be a reality for guilt-ridden Europeans wanting to come to terms with their ancestors' brutality.

Memory Village will allow visitors to be bound and tortured at a resort in Haiti, which was a slave nation before becoming the world's first black republic.

Tourists can play the part of a slave for 12 hours, in which they get a feel for the hardship endured in the Latin American country more than 200 years ago.

They can choose if they want to be spectators or participants. If they take part, they will be given traditional African clothing and then 'kidnapped', chained and forced to march to a slave ship in a mock crossing of the Atlantic.

They will then be part of a re-enactment where slaves were taken to market to be sold and later broken down with uktorture in quarantine and put to work on a plantation.

Towards the end of the 12-hour stay, visitors will take part in a recreation of the slave rebellion which eventually led to the establishment of Haiti.

Americans Ron and Carla Bluntschli, who are behind the project, have set up a foundation to get Memory Village off the ground and have already raised enough money to buy half the land needed for their attraction.

Mrs Bluntschli said: 'Slavery is a terrible wound. Germany is still suffering trying to get over the Holocaust, and this is a Holocaust that happened for centuries.'

The couple, who have lived in Haiti for 22 years, need $700,000 (£350,000) in total to complete their theme park.

Jerry S · #2 01-04-2008, 03:50 PM

I think they mean a park with a theme, not an amusement park. Would there really be rides themed to slavery? Still odd though.

rckrazy06 · #3 01-04-2008, 04:07 PM

Haha. Now that would be funny to see. who in their right minds would put themselves through slavery?

Dukeis#1 · #4 01-04-2008, 05:32 PM

Seems like I recall that Disney's America was actually going to have some kind of attraction that dealt with slavery, similar to the one described above.

Carowinds 73-03 · #5 01-04-2008, 06:19 PM

Bound and tortured

Now that sounds like my kinda park

**Brian F** · #6 01-04-2008, 08:37 PM

Hmm, I'll bet Kerry Collins will be the first in line for a season pass.

**Michael C** · #7 01-04-2008, 10:18 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Jerry S

I think they mean a park with a theme, not an amusement park. Would there really be rides themed to slavery? Still odd though.

I doubt it, 2 Family rides could whip out 700,000 easily. it sounds more like a Hollyland scenario. will like prove as unappealing as well.

Racer · #8 01-04-2008, 10:48 PM

I don't think people would willingly experience slavery. This doesn't sound like a good idea.

BGWfanatic · #9 01-04-2008, 10:57 PM

I lol'd

But this will obviously never go through.

on a somewhatly related note, did that Sex themed park in the UK ever get built, or what is the status on that?

GeminiRider · #10 01-05-2008, 10:18 AM

You know that Al Sharpton is gonna be all for this LOL.

jimhamblin · #11 01-05-2008, 03:09 PM

I think its a bad idea. Who in thier right mind would trivialize this very ugly part of our past this way. I think its important to remember slavery for what it is: an evil and brutal act. It isn't good to experience it for yourself. It isn't going to help anyone "come to grips" with it.

It is something to be remembered solemly and not to be celebrated.

***Chip*** · #12 01-05-2008, 04:29 PM

Haha. This is the dumbest thing I've heard of in a while. People who feel guilty about their ancestors' crimes? Sure, but they don't have to do this. Wow.

**Wes** · #13 01-05-2008, 07:39 PM

I have a direct ancestor that rapped a woman in the 1600s, should I feel guilty about that too and try to track down her decendent?

This is just silly for people to feel guilty about something they had nothing to do with.

**Brian F** · #14 01-05-2008, 08:23 PM

^ Wow, talking about someone ahead of their time! Rapping 350 years ago?

Yo, yo, yo beeyotch- I'm rolling in my benz buggy!

**Wes** · #15 01-06-2008, 10:16 AM

Oh well, I couldn't remember how to spell it lol.

The direct quote from the English report on the guy was "He beset a child upon the body of (Jane Doe) Which doesn't sound too bad until you start to think about what it's saying. Then the dude had like 10 children by another woman after that. Sheesh. And they talk about us being oversexed.