Industry moves to shut down Plantation Weddings

[Neuromancer]

Why do plantation locales still exist? @TAYLONDO SAMSWORTHY

 

[Cynical Thoughts]

The thee entire fukk is this shyt!

“Let’s go to the slave quarters and take silly picks”






Seems like they are ripe for cancel culture in ten years. If it’s still around.

 

[TinFoilSnapBack]

Ask these cacs if it would be appropriate to have their fairytale weddings at Auschwitz.

 

[WaveCapsByOscorp™]

Truth is, if they didn’t get money from things like that, those places would have been in poor condition years ago.

Like falling apart, run down, poorly maintained, etc.

that’s leaves me conflicted. As I don’t like historical artifacts of slavery however i understand the need for proper education on the event in history.

Artifacts are necessary to educate. But I wonder if a run down plantation would be better psychologically for people...

 

[MajesticLion]

What "industry"?

 

[bigdaddy88]

am just waiting for the racist folks sob stories about is in their righ to marry anywhere they know what their doing

 

[Great Big]

Slightly unrelated, but i remember seeing a white couple that adopted a young black girl, held a birthday party for her at a plantation. Recall even seeing photos of her picking cotton. No bs, i cried a little

 

[get these nets]

Good for Zola - but the others are just making them stop using "Plantation" Antebellum" when advertising on their platforms.

Here are two of the largest "Plantation wedding" venues -- as you see-- they aint stopping shyt.

Weddings - Nottoway Plantation Resort - Largest Antebellum Mansion

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I know that you are about action, and I respect that about you. I also think that as a woman, you have a better understanding of what this story means and doesn't mean than I do.

From my vantage point, things happen in steps and stages and this is a step in the right direction.

Like you pointed out earlier, outside of purchasing these properties, there is no way to prevent the owners from renting them out for events, including weddings.

The idea that all white people are going to stop being either outright racist, tone deaf, or culturally insensitive is never going to happen. These weddings/receptions will continue. I just hope that they become less commonplace.

To the extent that this story stigmatized / removes financial incentive for the events to take place, it is progress.

 

[Mr. Negative]

Why do plantation locales still exist? @TAYLONDO SAMSWORTHY

same old families still own the same land. Places like here in the delta, when a town grows around old houses like that, they turn them into museums/heritage sites and just move.

They still have their weddings and family parties in these places. Ain't shyt changed. Old white money is still old white money. But their money comes from government and politics now.

Imagine telecommunicaton/power companies paying your family 6-7 figures a year for each company that runs cable lines across your old slave land, even if you don't farm or live on it. May as well be a congrats/apology from the US government

 

[Cadillac]

I read about this the other day. They are not moving to shut them down - they will no longer allow them to advertise them as "plantation weddings" or "antebellum weddings" -- so in essence - they will still be happening.

What kills me is the man who built a Plantation home venue - getting mad about people coming after it. I want them all shutdown -- and made museums.

But, we have to either create policy or purchase them and make the venue non-profit ran.

Here is a great podcast about White people and the word Plantation - of course they playing dumb: 1 | When White People Say Plantation

I can see it being a bought out before there is a policy

 

[get these nets]

What "industry"?

The Wedding Planning industry including venues, registries, photo hosting/sharing sites .

 

[old pig]

yo cacs are fukking SICK!

Demonic. Taking pictures at a Plantation and using the cabins/shacks the enslaved lived in as photo props.

Burnside Plantation Wedding Venue | Bethlehem, Wedding DJ, Photography, Video | Wesley Works

collette mruk photography — Blog — A Lowcountry Wedding Blog & Magazine - Charleston, Savannah, Hilton Head, Myrtle Beach

 

[IsThatBrothaMouzone?]

Demonic. Taking pictures at a Plantation and using the cabins/shacks the enslaved lived in as photo props.

Burnside Plantation Wedding Venue | Bethlehem, Wedding DJ, Photography, Video | Wesley Works

collette mruk photography — Blog — A Lowcountry Wedding Blog & Magazine - Charleston, Savannah, Hilton Head, Myrtle Beach

Best way to compare this:

Imagine Germans having weddings at old Nazi concentration camp sites.........this is just like that. Amazing they can't even see WHY this is tacky.

 

[xoxodede]

Truth is, if they didn’t get money from things like that, those places would have been in poor condition years ago.

Like falling apart, run down, poorly maintained, etc.

that’s leaves me conflicted. As I don’t like historical artifacts of slavery however i understand the need for proper education on the event in history.

Artifacts are necessary to educate. But I wonder if a run down plantation would be better psychologically for people...

My first thought is .....GOOD.

They should have then been purchased as historical sites/landmarkers -- and made into museums.

And even falling apart, poorly maintained plantations are still up. But, what happens is they are restored and turned into Plantation wedding venues/resorts.

Like this one is about to be:

 

[Shoog Shatmi]

LOL I don't even like going to places (neighborhoods, towns, shopping centers, etc) that have the word plantation in them, let alone going to an actual, real life antebellum plantation.