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.”

  • Aetherion@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    So this wasn‘t some museum which educated people about this cruel part of american history? Because of this es the case, then this is a loss.

    FYI in Germany, we don‘t burn down the monuments of our past, because this is the only shit which let‘s us remember how cruel people can be and that this doesn‘t repeat itself.

    • The Quuuuuill@slrpnk.net
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      nah it was a destination wedding location. it was not used to disseminate information about the horror of slavery, it was used to promote disinformation about the lost cause of the south myth.