Blake Lively and Ryan Reynolds' Plantation Wedding Banned From Pinterest

[saintclaire87]

Why Blake Lively and Ryan Reynolds' Plantation Wedding Was Just Banned From Pinterest https://t.co/FlELZ4B25A
- E! News (@enews) December 7, 2019
Back in 2012, Blake Lively and Ryan Reynolds were wed at the Boone Hall Plantation in Charleston, South Carolina. The site was where hundreds of slaves were forced to produce bricks and harvest pecans, as

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[shayme]

I side eye any white person that likes plantations. I don't fuck with people that don't care about the history because it's "pretty".

[urfvrtweapon]

I think part of the problem is that history isn't taught correctly or at all. A lot of people are ignorant of history or the past. The worst is when people don't care about history at all, ignorant ass Steve Harvey had a segment on his show about subjects you don't care about at parties or in conversation. He told the white woman who asked the question just to say "I don't care about slavery" and walk away.

[shayme]

Steve is fucking terrible.

[emerald_soul]

Yeah, when I was a kid, we were taken to a plantation for a field trip and it was made out to be a ~fun place. The slave stuff seemed like a side note. We went strawberry picking and went on a fucking hay ride. It wasn't until I was older that I realized how fucked up it was.

[shayme]

This sounds...really white.

[kansascshuffle]

Your post immediately reminded me of this vid.

[emerald_soul]

I think we did pick cotton too lmao Or at least looked at it in the fields.

[speedychi]

same!

[eauxsurejan]

Excuse my ignorance but, what’s not taught ? I remember learning it in school and watching part of the color purple.
I think that as we get further away from the time period, it is harder for people to conceptualize.

[iznanassi]

A lot of people don't really get taught the full horrors and extent of slavery because they're only taught it through a book that at worse will say people were "brought and worked to create (insert resources)".

[savannah_rose24]

They're right. There was an uproar in Texas about a history book that described slaves as immigrants. This was an actual book that passed through a committee of people and the sad part is most books in other states are influenced by what Texas schools pick. Then you also have the saying America is a nation of immigrants, without a lot of people realizing its also a nation of slaves and Native Americans. Its pathetic. And the Color Purple isn't really a movie about slavery or plantations.

https://www.latimes.com/books/jacketcopy/la-et-jc-texas-textbook-calls-slaves-immigrants-20151005-story.html

[soul_amazinn]

Most people think slavery was just overworked without pay. They don't realize the brutality

[emptyobsidian]

I regularly get students who ask why slaves didn't just "go get another job" if they didn't like the job they had. There are intense, fundamental misunderstandings about slavery. I teach at a university, by the way.

[x_myheart_]

In school (public, Texas) we were taught that yes slavery was bad, but #NotAllSlaveOwners. That the larger plantations had more house-slaves that lived comfortably than field-slaves that got the terrible treatment. And owners that did have a reputation of harming their slaves were generally shunned in the slave-owning community.

Then my college professors were like "Remember when your 5-12 history teachers lied to you" and they also finally went over the horrors the indigenous Tex-Mex population experienced on the border that was not even touched in HS.

[leia_black]

I teach elementary social studies in Canada, K-5. I'm always thinking about what your professors said when I teach, trying not to white wash anything when I teach them history, not dumbing it down for them, just adjusting the language. It helps that I teach primarily poor immigrant and indigenous students, so I don't have any racist white parents complaining. And a curriculum that specifically calls for discussing discrimination and crimes against groups of people in Canada's history. The kids I teach already know the world isn't fair, they're starting the conversations and discussions about racism and heterosexism and gender, they're empowered by them

[tragedyofempty]

I think it really comes down to where you go to school. I went to school K-10 in California and we were taught how great the missions were but how horrific plantations and the south was. I moved to the South for 11th through college and they almost glamorized the idea of plantations and the antebellum life. It was major culture shock for me to move to a place where a coffee shop could be called the Koffee Kup Kafe and when I asked if they realized what the initials were I was told very matter of factly "oh yeah a klan member owns it. The breakfasts are amazing!!' I refused to ever step foot in that place, on the sheer grounds of who owned it and what the name said. But I got off on a tangent. Anyway, education is all about where you get educated and the rose lenses that area puts on thier history.