Plantation removes racist Juneteenth celebration advertisement, cancels event

Outrage erupted when social media spotted advertisements for the Historic Latta Plantation's racist Juneteenth celebration. Removing the advertisements did not erase the terrible, racist language the plantation used to promote its white people worshipping event.

Charlotte Observer:

The event billing is sympathetic to those who owned slaves in the aftermath of emancipation, and inaccurately minimizes an unnamed slaveowner to an 'overseer,' referring to him as 'massa.' — Read the rest