The first thing buried in a graveyard, so the story goes, has the duty to stand watch over it for eternity and keep the bad things out. It became tradition to bury a black dog before any man or woman was laid to rest, to make sure that no human would be locked out of heaven (or, for that matter, hell) forever.
They never asked the dogs what they felt about that sort of thing, but then, they were good dogs, and were doing their duty. And would do so for eternity. The black dogs who stood watch were dubbed Grims, though as time passed, no one ever thought they’d be needed. Still, the tradition went on.
When the dead began to rise to attack the living, the Grims were standing watch. Not one walking corpse made it out of a graveyard with a Grim standing guard over it, for dogs know the secrets of burying bones so that they stay buried.
Without the reinforcements of all the dead ever buried, the others who rose that day did not overwhelm the living. And when those living went to find out why, they found the Grims, still standing watch. The survivors told them that they were good dogs, who had done their duty. And the Grims were satisfied, and taught the living the trick of making sure bones stayed buried, so no dead would walk again.
so i live in cambodia, country with a heavy colonial past, y’know, and that is now going through some violent neo-colonialism and gentrification caused by the white ̶e̶x̶p̶a̶t̶s̶ immigrants. as it happens, i just recently found out that there was a hotel spa in phnom penh called the PLANTATION.
yeah. yeah yeah.
they opened a colonial aesthetic inspired establishment in a country with a heavy colonial past AND named it after colonial slave farms, because hey, what better name to remind us black and brown people who the master is.
save for the fact that you have to seriously be a fucking insensitive sociopathic fuck to name your establishment “the plantation”, no one seems to even think there’s a problem with the fucking name of this place.
so, can the followers who will read this please go on their fb page and tell them to fuck off?
violent neo-colonialism is something that white people vastly get away with, here in cambodia, and for once, i wish it weren’t the case. feel free to copy paste this in your message for these twats:
“Plantations can be defined as large farms in the colonies that used the enforced labor of slaves to harvest cotton, rice, indigo, sugar, tobacco and other farm produce for trade and export. Typical Slave Plantations ranged from 500 to 1,000 acres and each acre produced about 5,000 plants. Slave Plantations were vital to the profitability of the large farms located in the Southern colonies in Colonial America”
