Posted on 12/12/2019 6:12:01 AM PST by C19fan
Last Thursday, BuzzFeed News reported that online platforms, including Pinterest and the Knot Worldwide, would restrict content that features or romanticizes weddings held on former slave plantations. These changes were the result of a campaign by the social justice organization Color of Change. In a letter, Color of Change wrote that “plantations are physical reminders of one of the most horrific human rights abuses the world has ever seen. The wedding industry routinely denies the violent conditions Black people faced under chattel slavery by promoting plantations as romantic places to marry.”
Color of Change posted the news on Facebook, where it was, of course, received with appropriate empathy and contemplation. The 600 comments included lots of gems such as “Proud of our civil war plantation wedding! Eat shit color of change [sic]!!” because one exclamation point wasn’t enough. There was the old-faithful “slavery was too long ago” argument, with one commenter adding, “So stupid. That was hundreds of years ago. Why not call them beautiful homes or restored homes. Are they canceling castle weddings too?” And the unheard-of sentiment: “There were slaves of every color.”
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Or England? The city of Bristol a the leading slave port because it sits on the River Avon, and The British East India Company did their own share of slave trading.
The UK has enough problems of its own on which to focus. Maybe they should start there.
In hign school, the band went to Andersonville to have yearbook pictures taken. They probably don’t do that anymore.
Hey, General Sherman did his best...
Malaika Jabali...let me guess.
In the late 1930s, my family used to vacation at Beverley Beach (part of a former plantation) on the Chesapeake Bay. The area was highly segregated, only black laborers were allow in the area with one exception. That was a very elderly and somewhat senile black man whom I once saw sleeping in the middle of the road. I was told he was born a slave and grew up as a companion of a son of the owner. The son eventually inherited the plantation, died without issue, and willed it to his black companion. It was sold to the developer with the stipulation that the old fellow had the legal right of access and could do what he wanted on the property.
I'm glad my bride and I didn't go with the "Plantation-themed" wedding.
The "Ghetto-Style" wedding was much more fun!
Regards,
LOL! That post requires pictures. ;-)
It's also true that the Ottoman Turks enslaved many Christians, including many Slavs. Of course they also killed a lot of Christians too (but the dead ones were useless for labor).
ROTFLOL, I about lost my cookies with that one.
Well now there was a humble, self-deprecating man.
It’s going to be a great Christmas! It’s exactly what Aunt Bethany said:
“Play Ball!”
Go bugger yourselves ...
They’re Brits, they hold inbred pervert royals in high esteem, who cares what the think!
Ban the democrat party.
The party of slavery.
If these people had their way, all weddings would be held at Department of Motor Vehicles offices, while they still allowed either weddings or motor vehicles.
I saw one at a Dairy Queen.
In fairness, those are only engagement photos and from the outside.
“My virginal bride, before being sacrificed to the lions.” ;-)
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