Plantation weddings are wrong. Why is it so hard for white Americans to admit that?

UK Guardian ^ | December 11, 2019 | Malaika Jabali

[mass55th]

"So people should not get married in Rome too??? The city built on the back of slaves."

Or England? The city of Bristol a the leading slave port because it sits on the River Avon, and The British East India Company did their own share of slave trading.

[trisham]

The UK has enough problems of its own on which to focus. Maybe they should start there.

[real saxophonist]

In hign school, the band went to Andersonville to have yearbook pictures taken. They probably don’t do that anymore.

[Buckeye McFrog]

Hey, General Sherman did his best...

[Zathras]

Malaika Jabali...let me guess.

[Hiddigeigei]

In the late 1930s, my family used to vacation at Beverley Beach (part of a former plantation) on the Chesapeake Bay. The area was highly segregated, only black laborers were allow in the area with one exception. That was a very elderly and somewhat senile black man whom I once saw sleeping in the middle of the road. I was told he was born a slave and grew up as a companion of a son of the owner. The son eventually inherited the plantation, died without issue, and willed it to his black companion. It was sold to the developer with the stipulation that the old fellow had the legal right of access and could do what he wanted on the property.

[alexander_busek]

The only thing to do is laugh at these nitwits. They are insane.

I'm glad my bride and I didn't go with the "Plantation-themed" wedding.

The "Ghetto-Style" wedding was much more fun!

Regards,

[Twotone]

LOL! That post requires pictures. ;-)

[Daffynition]

You can't use nanometer, plantation, bondage and Gene Autry in the same sentence. It's just not done! White privilege, anyone? :)

[Daffynition]

A plantation wedding. Go figure. Wait until these nitwits go after camo.

[Verginius Rufus]

Yes, "slave" comes from "Slav" because so many Slavs were enslaved, but the term dates back centuries before the Ottoman Turks began their conquests. Medieval Europeans would enslave pagans and since Eastern Europe was Christianized later, that was where a lot of the slaves came from.

It's also true that the Ottoman Turks enslaved many Christians, including many Slavs. Of course they also killed a lot of Christians too (but the dead ones were useless for labor).

[Ezekiel]

ROTFLOL, I about lost my cookies with that one.

Well now there was a humble, self-deprecating man.

It’s going to be a great Christmas! It’s exactly what Aunt Bethany said:

“Play Ball!”

[NorthMountain]

Go bugger yourselves ...

[Mastador1]

They’re Brits, they hold inbred pervert royals in high esteem, who cares what the think!

[right way right]

Ban the democrat party.
The party of slavery.

[jmcenanly]

If these people had their way, all weddings would be held at Department of Motor Vehicles offices, while they still allowed either weddings or motor vehicles.

[Reily]

I saw one at a Dairy Queen.

[dangus]

In fairness, those are only engagement photos and from the outside.

“My virginal bride, before being sacrificed to the lions.” ;-)