Plantation weddings are wrong. Why is it so hard for white Americans to admit that? | Malaika Jabali
Yes, plantations are often beautiful. They were also sites of untold misery and subjugation
by Malaika Jabali
Dec 11, 2019
2 minutes
Last Thursday, BuzzFeed News that online platforms, including Pinterest and the Knot Worldwide, would restrict content that features or romanticizes weddings held on former slave plantations. These changes were the result of a campaign by the social justice organization Color of Change. In a letter, Color of Change wrote that “plantations are physical reminders of one of the most horrific human rights abuses the world has ever seen. The
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