So it would be ok if the space was aesthetically appealing?

I did a tour of a plantation in my Girl Scout troop that I'm beginning to believe I hallucinated, because it was amazing. They did the whole usual plantation tour (this is where Miss so-and-so would get ready in her beautiful dress; this staircase cost $XXX and was installed to impress the Joneses down the road), but…

I did not have the energy for this fool's messiness. Thanks

I have to think that it'd be confusing for non-Native folks if they learn about Columbus Day (and Thanksgiving) as they do from a very young age but then find out the whole story, smallpox blankets and all, in high school. I still come across people in adulthood that had never heard of the term, nor do they know about…

I think the architecture of plantation homes is beautiful, but I still find them inherently sad.

I post this on Facebook every year.

This is the whitest shit I have read in a minute. This the height of bullshit. Like you really just sat up here said some dumb ass shit about civilizations that don't even exist anymore. Whose descendants are long dead. Meanwhile I can sit and pull up the slave ship records to show you my great great grand parents.…

But he's trying so hard here (he even included a ridiculous false analogy!) so let's let him keep going :-)

Blake Lively is one of those people who got married on a plantation. Sure, she has pretty hair. But I lost all respect for her when I learned that. - A Southerner who researches and teaches about slavery.

I said this in another comment months ago. I'm originally from Jamaica and studied out the wazoo to get my citizenship. I remember my teachers in kindergarten would keep me inside to study social studies while all the other kids were outside in recess. Basically I knew a lot about the United States from a very early…

You just used a whole lot of words to say "I'm a racist idiot."

It makes me think the inspiration for this had to be someone's admiration and longing for the actual culture of antebellum south, because there is no reason to have an antebellum fashion spread. No one is rocking hoop skirts right now. Excessive ruffles aren't in.

First, the Antebellum period was not in the 20s. Second, the problem with looking at the positive side of all that beautiful plantation architecture is that it was created entirely with wealth generated by slave labor. So really, there is no positive side beyond the fact that it's pretty. And if "pretty" outweighs…

Oh my god that is the worst excuse/lie I've ever heard.

THIS. This right here.

So much thesaurus abuse.

AND frustrating! I'd love some Civil War era-inspired trends. THESE ARE NOT THEM!

Goddamn, that is some of the worst copy I've ever seen in my life. It is unreadable.

...with the ease of a hummingbird relishing a pastoral bloom