It's long past time that we have a SERIOUS conversation about these fakakta plantations that have been filling WW's heads with wedding fantasies. 1/
From Nottoway To Monticello,15 Slave Plantations With Brutal Backstories
https://www.theroot.com/from-nottoway-to-monticello-15-slave-plantations-with-1851781155
From Nottoway To Monticello,15 Slave Plantations With Brutal Backstories
https://www.theroot.com/from-nottoway-to-monticello-15-slave-plantations-with-1851781155
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How long is Too Long!
WW have held their knee on BW necks for way too long.
Trump supporting & voting WW need to be dealt w/, immediately. If there’s anything that BW & WW who truly believe in equality can collaborate on, it’s getting rid of or silencing those bitches, permanently!
I've seen posts shaming Black people for celebrating its demise because "how will people learn what really went on there!" when psssst...come closer...it's not widely taught. In the fewer instances it is, it only happened after its glaring absence was noted and when it is,
the tourists don't like it.
"...guests who visited the house and took the tour reacted with hostility to hearing a presentation that focused more on the slaves than on the owners."
https://www.vox.com/2015/6/29/8847385/what-i-learned-from-leading-tours-about-slavery-at-a-plantation
"The first time it happened, I had just finished a tour of the home. People were filing out of their seats, and one man stayed behind to talk to me. He said, "Listen, I just wanted to say that dragging all this slavery stuff up again is bringing down America."
Imagine going to visit the site of a concentration camp. I have. Dachau. It was somber, serious, and respectful. The Germans owned this.
Compare and contrast when I was at the US Holocaust Museum in DC where white moms were too concerned with what their kids might see:
"Well, how graphic is graphic?" about kids the age of Anne Frank who endured the reality. There was also the guy on his cell phone whining about having to be there, until most of us stared him down.
Back to Nottoway. The original owner, John Hampden Randolph,
was so mindful of his property that he hustled them off to Texas as the war approached Nottoway, so he could continue making money growing cotton. Texas, the last state to acknowledge the Emancipation Proclamation which on paper, freed the enslaved two years prior.
“Me: couldn’t be me sis. I can’t get with that.”