On May 15, 2025, the Nottoway Plantation in White Castle Louisiana, caught fire and burned down.
I’m glad that nobody was physically harmed during the fire, but I’m not going to lie; I can’t say I’m sorry about the fire itself.
As what the internet refers to as an ADOS (American Descendant Of Slavery), I could understand preserving these homes "in the name of history" if that’s what was being done here, establishing a museum for example, that discussed American Slavery and what was done to people under that system.
But this wasn’t that. Nottoway was a resort, a glamorous venue where people held parties and weddings, basically celebrating the oppression, from the perspective of the oppressors. The entire plantation system was a heritage built upon hatred and racism.
Based upon that, again, while I am grateful that there was no injury or loss of life, in regard to the destruction of a former slave plantation, I say, burn, baby, burn. 😞
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@Pretzel Exactly. I could certainly be wrong but don’t know that anyone is being allowed to hold weddings at Auschwitz. And I can’t imagine anyone wanting to.
@bijouxbroussard I suppoes the difference will be it wil have been a beautiful peice of architecture, but its still better off gone. I dont think were good at doing beautiful architecture these days...What should be built in its place is probably a visitor centre ??
@Captain I’m not sure, tbh. It depends on how the owners read the reaction of my community, many of whom are delighted that this symbol of racism has burned. If they don’t care and have support by people like the MAGAs, it will be rebuilt as exact what it was before.
@bijouxbroussard Last thing to do is rebuild it. US should be a different place now, should be. Havent heard much news about police misbehaviour in the US recently, but then Donald makes so much noise, that is all you hear.
