Sharing a video of the building while still aflame, Brad Gordon wrote: “If you don’t understand why Black Americans are celebrating the symbolic dismantling of this monument to bondage and generational oppression — well, today, we simply don’t care.”
Hot take: This isn’t uplifting at all. Burning this is like burning a labor camp, it reminds people of what life really was back then. It’s important to preserve history, especially if it’s dark, so we don’t repeat it.
It wasn’t a museum, or a living heritage site, it’s where southern debutantes threw antebellum themed weddings.
It needed to be destroyed for what it is as much as what it was.
People took wedding photos and shit here. It acknowledged none of the hate and suffering caused. It’s a good thing it’s a pile of ashes now.
Agreed.
Burning this place helps erase the stories of the people who died there. It doesn’t help to preserve them.