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.”
However, in this case, a resort for rich, presumably predominantly white , people, probably doesn’t meet your criteria for “needs of the living population.” It certainly doesn’t meet mine.
What I mean is the population that’s living in wherever region of the world this is, get to decide whatever they want to do with this, we shouldn’t keep or preserve an old building "as is"just because it has history, history is for books, buildings are for the material needs of the people in the present
Edit: I think I wrote this comment poorly so here’s a better explanation to how I feel - I dont care about a building history, if this one burns and is replaced by a playground, it’s a much better use than maintaining this old house just because its a testament of the past, especially considering its context. People hung up on the past can take a picture of it, or make a small sized replica to have in a museum.