Slave plantation house burns - African Americans Rejoice

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Some good news
https://www.blackenterprise.com/nottowa ... sort-fire/

Karma for those with long memories

Usually I favor turning these sites into museums but there are probably so many of them that duplication would occur. You don’t need a dozen museums in one county. Having large sections of the south off limits to anything but museums and memorials would impede progress rather then create it.

A resort is wrong but using those sites for business and residential use with a plaque describing the history seems the least problematic.

I think the owner never meant to make it a shrine to the antebellum south (from what I understand) and just wanted tourists to experience a taste of bygone cultural era. But it quite clearly demonstrates a blind spot to the intergenerational pain carried by southern black Americans who regardless find it bad taste, kind of like re-enactments of antebellum south. Southerners who take pride in their antebellum culture either don't care or legitimately nostalgic over an era involving some of the worst crimes against humanity (kind of like making Auschwitz into a theme park).