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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]We could tear down all the old plantation houses.  Or we could use them for something better.  [/quote]

I truly don't see the problem with tearing them down. [/quote]

Bury the past?[/quote]

Do you like confederate memorials too? [/quote]

I’m ok with turning them into something educational. I was a history major. [/quote]

Congrats on the degree. Explain to me how you take a confederate memorial and turn it into "something educational." And why that is preferable to removing them and replacing them with memorials for black people. [/quote]

Frankly this is why I think we have Trump as our president.  And I’m not certain he’s not going to be re-elected. I actually would be fine with removing the monuments. Idc. But some people do. And I do actually think there a middle ground where we can create memorials for black people alongside and with add signage about the bad and good things the white person did, when it was erected, and why it wouldn’t be erected today. [/quote]

There are some people who do have problems with anything tinged by the legacy of slavery or racism. But oddly enough, as far as I can tell, it's only those issues, the particular black-as-slaves-as-repressed-minority issue that bothers them. They rarely call for other kinds of injustices to be eliminated from sight and memory (because we'd have to pretty much destroy our entire civilization). They only care about history as it personally affects them, and themselves as a person even if they'll speak of the larger race, and don't care about all the other aspects of a particular building or legacy's historical aspects. In short, they're quite selfish. That's why I rarely take them seriously.

Demanding a beautiful building to be demolished just to avenge some sort of self-imposed angst is merely revenge, and revenge never brings justice. And no one will take you seriously, anyway.

On a side note, the vast majority of big houses on southern plantations were architecturally unremarkable. Mostly of the two story wood colonial style vernacular with a porch slapped on, not particularly big by modern standards, and most have already been lost to the ravages of time. Only a tiny handful were places like Mount Vernon. [/quote]

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