Plantation weddings are wrong. Why is it so hard for white Americans to admit that? | Malaika Jabali
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.”
What sort of people would get married in places like these?
What sort of people fixate on how other people get married? Why do you busybodies think it's any of your ******* business?
It struck me as obscene, pretty much because it is. I dont think Auschwitz does wedding receptions or christenings. Its the same thing.
I get that. I guess the problem (ie the reason you get pushback on these kinds of observations) is that when liberals start complaining about these kinds of things it usually leads to proposals for intrusive legislation.
The article has a sense of anger that I understand. There is a kind of whitewashing going on here that implies these houses were idyllic, dreamy homes. But that is a lie and perpetuates bullshit myths about these homes and that era.
Surely Gone With the Wind, and all that it stood for, is part of an awful time in US history. This sort of thing glamourises slavery.
"And as you walk down the aisle, pause, close your eyes, and you can almost hear a teenage girl being raped by Massa whilst her elderly parents are sold down the river. Heavenly! "
