There is a hotel near me in the deep south that has some amazing landscaping and I'd love to go see the flowers... but it's also a former plantation and I just can't see myself enjoying what it is now, knowing the same sort of assholes will be profiting from my visit.

[–] thedirtyknapkin 10 points 7 months ago (1 children)

to me, that one would depend on the marketing. if they market it as a plantation experience then that's a bit fucked.

I don't think that former plantain land should be cursed to never be used or repurposed again. that's giving them too much power. those slavers weren't capable of fouling the earth itself with their bullshit.

keeping some as museum's is probably good, but so much land down there was used for that. repuposing it and washing the misery out is probably the other thing we should be doing with that land.

[–] flicker 3 points 7 months ago

The problem is it's still owned by the descendants of the original owners.