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"Nottoway Resort" burns

2025-05-17 01:43:49.759047+02 by Dan Lyke 5 comments

Rod Serling: “All the Dachaus must remain standing. The Dachaus, the Belsens, the Buchenwalds, the Auschwitzes -all of them. They must remain standing because they are a monument to a moment in time when some men decided to turn the earth into a graveyard, into it they shoveled all of their reason, their logic, their knowledge, but worst of all their conscience. And the moment we forget this, the moment we cease to be haunted by its rememberance. Then we become the grave diggers.”

And I get it, but only if we are "haunted by its rememberance".

"Nottoway Resort" antebellum mansion slave plantation burns to the ground.

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#Comment Re: "Nottoway Resort" burns made: 2025-05-17 17:31:49.89011+02 by: Definitely Not a Bot

Counterpoint:

https://www.threads.com/@rogue...ew-disaster-girl-meme-chefs-kiss

#Comment Re: "Nottoway Resort" burns made: 2025-05-17 17:31:49.89011+02 by: Dan Lyke

I'm 100% with those memes. Especially because the monument to slavery has become a wedding venue, which is completely celebrating the space for the wrong reasons.

If people were throwing weddings at Dachau we'd look at them sideways.

#Comment Re: "Nottoway Resort" burns made: 2025-05-18 01:12:36.984482+02 by: Dan Lyke

Whitney Plantation, June 24, 2020 on why they're not a wedding venue:

Over 350 people were enslaved at Whitney Plantation throughout the 18th and 19th centuries. Our tour has always focused on the brutal labor and stolen freedom of those that created vast economic wealth for the enslaving families. We do not glamorize the Big House or the grounds. In addition to our mission to educate visitors and the larger community about slavery and its legacies, our site is a place of memory and reverence. Our on-site memorials list the names of individuals who were enslaved at Whitney, individuals who were enslaved throughout Louisiana, children who died during enslavement, and a memorial for the revolutionaries of the largest US slave revolt. For these reasons, the Big House has never been nor ever will be a wedding venue. Plantations are sites of immense cruelty and violence. We do not allow any event that would overshadow this reality and disrespect the memory of all those who suffered, labored, and died here.

That is how you contextualize a plantation house.

#Comment Re: "Nottoway Resort" burns made: 2025-05-18 01:12:36.984482+02 by: spc476

You have to be logged in to TikInstaLinkedFacePinMeMyTokBookInTrestGramSpaceWe to read the Whitney Plantation statement. Those walled gardens sure are a bitch!

#Comment Re: "Nottoway Resort" burns made: 2025-05-19 21:03:47.373555+02 by: Dan Lyke

Yeah, that's why I copied and pasted most of it.

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