Gun Play

So, there's this retro-50s-type theme park in northern New Jersey called Wild West City. A large part of its appeal is its unselfconscious lack of political correctness. There are "shootouts" in the street, saloon fights (the liquid in the whiskey bottles is tea), Virgil Earp smokes a cigar during the Gunfight at the OKCorral skit. It's wonderdul. But some uptight-types object to it as a class trip destination for urban youngsters who are already obsessed with firearms -- like suburban and rural kids aren't? I asked one of these chaperones how many class trips teach kids about the historical contribution of people who look like them -- people of color. WWC has a black marshal. And black and Hispanic cowboys. She admitted it was the only one.