Two YouTubers decided to gatecrash a Civil War reenactment to make it more 'historically accurate’, having dressed up as slaves.
YouTuber JiDion was joined by fellow online star Kanel Joseph for the stunt, which saw the pair fly out to Kentucky to attend a Civil War reenactment event.
However, rather than watch along from the sidelines, they wanted to get involved themselves - in a bid to make the event more 'historically accurate'.
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WARNING: VIDEO CONTAINS EXPLICIT LANGUAGE
To do so, they head to the shops to collect items for their costumes, including a set of plastic chains.
“Basically, what we’re gonna be doing is we’re gonna head to a Civil War reenactment and we’re gonna dress up like slaves,” JiDion explains in the video.
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After making the purchases, the pair don ripped-up, holey clothes and smear dirt on their outfits, before shackling themselves with fake chains.
They then walk barefoot over to the event site, at which point someone dressed as a Civil War-era police officer strides over to them.
“Why are you doing that?” he asks.
Kanel replies, in a deadpan tone: “We’re just trying to make sure it’s accurate.”
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When the man asks what he means, JiDion chips in: “The event? I thought you could dress up?”
Later, we encounter others who appear equally unhappy with the stunt.
“I’m gonna ask one time [for you] to leave before I sent you to jail,” another man tells them, adding: “You’re in chains. What are we doing here, man?”
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His female companion then points at their chains, asking: “Why this?”
JiDion replies: “Well, this was just the drip back then. We just want to be as historically accurate as possible.”
Another woman then interjects: “It’s not funny, it’s not cute, it’s not okay.”
JiDion hits back: “But this is history.”
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The second woman then tells them the group doesn’t ‘represent this part of history’, before one of the men says: “We don’t have any slaves out here in chains.”
When JiDion accuses them of ‘erasing history’, they claim this is not the case – also pointing out when he says he can’t ‘see any black people’ that there are black participants, but that they are ‘in uniform’.
A black man on a horse then comes over, telling the pair ‘a certain period of clothes’ is required, pointing down to JiDion and Kanel’s feet and saying their sandals and plastic bags – filled with cotton balls - aren’t appropriate.
“You know, you’re not offending me but, I mean, you got other white people here – they don’t play this c**p.”
Someone else tells the YouTubers they’re ‘causing a scene’, before two modern-day police officers arrive to ask them to leave, saying they are on private property.
Suddenly, another bloke speaks up, saying of JiDion and Kanel: “They’re general public, they have a right just like anybody else.”
Eventually, they head off the site and get back to the car, where JiDion tells the camera: “We’re not gonna call them racist or nothing like that – I don’t think it’s racist to do this. This is just for good fun and everything like that.
“But it’s just like, if you’re gonna talk about history, it’s like, talk about all of history. You feel me? It’s like talking about World War II and not talking about what happened to Jewish people.”
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Jess Hardiman