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I generally think of today's far-right rhetoric as the dying fart of a senile geriatric. If we hold our noses a little while longer, it'll be gone, and we can breathe freely and move forward. But a recent poll showed that younger Americans are increasingly blind to/dismissive of systemic racism and the consequent detriments of opportunity that have disproportionately affected Black Americans. (http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2015/03/millenials-race-115909.html#.VZQ73flVhBc)

Have you noticed any such demographic differences in your conversations with tourists? Are millennials using different rhetoric while arriving at the same conclusions as, say, Bill O'Reilly?

Were there times when someone was just obviously trolling you? How would you deal with that if they won't stop? Make them leave?

Have you seen this? http://www.slate.com/articles/life/the_history_of_american_slavery/2015/06/animated_interactive_of_the_history_of_the_atlantic_slave_trade.html

Yes! I was thinking about this as I watched the graphic--somebody/people laboriously pored over some very old slavers' documents from all over this side of the world just to make this 2-minute thing. Really an amazing amount of knowledge in one little convenient package.

You've had direct contact with some people who have sympathized with slave owners and downplayed the degradation and torment of slavery. Did this affect the way you understood or responded to the shootings in Charleston and the arsons that followed in other parts of the South?