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Sharing a video of the building while still aflame, Brad Gordon wrote: "If you don't understand why Black Americans are celebrating the symbolic dismantling of this monument to bondage and generational oppression — well, today, we simply don't care."

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[–] FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world 30 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (9 children)

This is one story where I can definitely understand the mixed feelings.

It is rightly satisfying watching a house of horrors go up in flames, particularly so when you're descended from the people who were tortured and brutalized there.

At the same time, it's easier to teach history to people when they can interact with it using their own senses, and absent that, it's much much easier to forget it ever happened in the first place.

[–] BackgrndNoize@lemmy.world 26 points 1 week ago (6 children)

Yeah I'm sure the racist assholes booking a weeding reception at that plantation were going there to reflect on its sad history

[–] FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (5 children)

Things change over time.

There are many sites in the South that were once used for profit and are now used to teach. That can't happen now with this one, and it's a loss to history whether you care to acknowledge it or not.

[–] Themadbeagle@lemm.ee 11 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Before you go defending places as lost chances at teaching history, maybe you should check into the place and see what kind of things it was used for. The website doesn't seem to suggest it was used to teach history, just a glorified white people wedding venue.

https://www.nottoway.com/

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