On a few occasions when we get reviews, it amazes us as to what someone is willing to publicly post in 2022. For your first comment of "as a northerner visiting South Carolina for the first time..." it is very common for first-time visitors to our city to arrive expecting hoop skirts and mint juleps. They expect to see Scarlett O'Hara gracefully walking down the hill from her Tara plantation house. I hope that while visiting the city and taking our tour, it was made clear that those early 20th century interpretations of the Antebellum South were over exaggerated and romanticized for the time period. What is most concerning is the next statement when you said, "I was surprised by the negative light that our tour guide cast on the people of Charleston." You did mean to say the "white people of Charleston," correct? Since you clearly did not want to hear about the truths of slavery, and considering the overwhelming majority of slaveowners were white men, we assume that is what you meant. Also, when your guide spoke of African Americans after the Civil War (when slavery was abolished), that upset you as well, so clearly you wanted more 'white" history of Charleston. In regards though to your question "Must we continue being lectured to regarding its evils?" Yes. Plain and simple, the answer is yes. As to why we should, that answer cannot be fully encompassed in a review response, but to leave it out would be downright bad history. It would undermine the memory of the victims of the evil institution. In the aftermath of the Civil War, as southern rhetoric started changing historical narrative to outright avoiding discussing slavery or its evils it paved the way for Jim Crow and segregation. It is when we stop talking about it that racism and division prevails. To anyone who reads this and is looking to visit Charleston, if you are in the same mindset of this reviewer and feel that it is inappropriate to learn about the role of slavery in Charleston and the subsequent realities to the oppression and disenfranchisement of a people, Bulldog Tours is not for you. In fact, the city of Charleston is not for you.