LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WAVE) - The CEO of a Louisville museum is calling the attention they’re receiving “hits of compassion” after a video showing a woman having slave shackles put on her gained millions of views on their social media pages.

The Roots 101 Museum takes people on an educational journey in a way that some have mixed emotions about.

Putting slave shackles on museum visitors has been part of the experience since it opened six years ago.

“On the internet, they played it as if it was white guilt, and it wasn’t white guilt, it was white compassion,” said the museum’s CEO and founder, Lamont Collins.

Collins uses the shackles as a tool to teach people compassion and understand the past.

“This connected three slaves in one chain, one direction, one ankle, one ankle, one ankle,” Coll

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