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[–] Tartas1995@discuss.tchncs.de 64 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Why do so many people talk like this post is about whether or not you should burn these down or not? Or how they should be maintained?

Girls saw the burning plantation and took a selfie for the symbolic value of it. I don't see them argue that people should destroy the historical evidence, or anything. They just took a strong symbolic Image and if you don't like the symbolism in it, you are a weirdo.

Can we just appreciate their picture? Think about its symbolism?

And maybe then we can have the discussion about what to do with these things. People with no knowledge could start with listening. And if needed, they can add their perspective afterwards.

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[–] 01189998819991197253 112 points 5 days ago (64 children)

Daigle wrote. "The loss of Nottoway is not just a loss for Iberville Parish, but for the entire state of Louisiana. It was a cornerstone of our tourism economy and a site of national significance."

Fuck that guy

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[–] thisbenzingring@lemmy.sdf.org 63 points 5 days ago

those smiles

those smiles make me smile

[–] eugenevdebs@lemmy.dbzer0.com 34 points 4 days ago (2 children)

More burnt plantations please! We can put them out with confederate tears.

[–] TriflingToad@sh.itjust.works 20 points 4 days ago

too late I drunked em' all 😔

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[–] Ilovethebomb@lemm.ee 58 points 5 days ago (8 children)

I didn't realise slavery continued in the US until so recently, mid 1800s? Yikes.

[–] jmcs@discuss.tchncs.de 140 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Chattel slavery. Penal Slavery is still legal and targets mostly racial minorities.

[–] JackbyDev@programming.dev 18 points 5 days ago (1 children)

It's super important to really understand how fucked penal slavery and convict leasing is. When you think of American slavery you think of people working in a field and that it stopped with the civil war. It absolutely didn't. They forced prisoners to work the fields after that.

[–] katharta@lemmy.sdf.org 12 points 5 days ago (1 children)

California of all states voting to keep prison slavery legal in 2024 is how I know deep down inside we are truly well good and fucked.

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[–] PDFuego@lemmy.world 55 points 5 days ago

They still have it, it's just called prison labour now.

[–] Apepollo11@lemmy.world 48 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Even more shockingly, Mississippi only officially ratified the amendment to abolish slavery in... 1995.

And only officially submitted the paperwork concerning said ratification to the US Archives in... 2013.

No rush, guys. No rush.

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[–] solsangraal@lemmy.zip 29 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (3 children)

don't worry, maga white supremacist snowflakes are in the process of rewriting that history to say the slaves "wanted" to be here, because of "opportunities" they didn't have in the home they "voluntarily" left to be here. so, they weren't "slaves," but "immigrant workers"

[–] NJSpradlin@lemmy.world 24 points 5 days ago

“It’s just like a working VISA!”

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[–] ODGreen@slrpnk.net 21 points 5 days ago

It's still around.

The amendment to USA's constitution that "banned" slavery did so EXCEPT as punishment for a crime.

USA also has astoundingly high incarceration rates per capita. Coincidence?

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[–] HEXN3T@lemmy.blahaj.zone 9 points 4 days ago

That's lowkey awesome

[–] AnalogNotDigital@lemmy.wtf 28 points 5 days ago

Yeah, fuck the south. Enjoy, ladies.

[–] LustyArgonianMana@lemmy.world 24 points 4 days ago (2 children)

The lead in the paint and who tf knows what else (eg covered up arsenic paint or wallpaper) is in that smoke. Seriously avoid breathing in smoke from home fires, it has unfathomably deadly stuff in it

[–] SaharaMaleikuhm@feddit.org 17 points 4 days ago

Generally speaking it's best to avoid inhaling any smoke be it from a fire or even a cigarette.

[–] Alaik@lemmy.zip 20 points 4 days ago

Dude a place that old? Prolly has everything in it. Wouldn't surprise me if a renovation in the 50s gave it some cadmium.

[–] prettybunnys@sh.itjust.works 31 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Beautiful building, awful history.

Waste of water trying to put it out, unless of course it was endangering nearby structures

[–] chatokun@lemmy.dbzer0.com 13 points 4 days ago

Aside from nearby structures, generally you don't want fire releasing toxins in the atmosphere,even were it just wood. Likely the are plastics, bad paints,and multiple other things we wouldn't want just burnt willy nilly. Not that I'm against the destruction of the place; fuck that place.

[–] Dragonstaff@leminal.space 25 points 5 days ago (3 children)

Kudos for cutting out their names but I do love that they included "#BurntToACrisp"

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[–] 01189998819991197253 18 points 5 days ago

I don't like this as a "stick it to em" thing. Personally, I want to see those women own that entire plantation, and transform it into a haven for the black community. If that means tearing it down, so be it. I want them to own that shit. I want the slave owning twats to be rolling in their graves over, not just a black person, but a black woman owning their shit.

That said, amazing selfie lol

[–] Wilco@lemm.ee 15 points 5 days ago

Look at their faces! They know fate took its time granting this justice hundreds of years later ... a slow burn.

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