how can any body think that keeping slaves quarters on a restored plantation houses is racist?

Question

i have been noticing that allot of people think it is racist to to keep or restore the slave quarters on a plantation how is it racist to keep them? it shows just how the slaves had to live a child will learn more about it if he can go into a slave house and see just what it was like to be there.they are a window in time and u will never get that by looking at a picture. i know it was that way for me growing up in Charleston SC

Answer 1

I'm with you. It's historical and the way it was. No one is talking about restocking with slaves, right? I couldn't believe the hidden rooms I've been in that had been used by the Underground Railroad. Should we get rid of those, too, and put all that nastiness behind us?

Answer 2

All these IDIOTS that say "it depends" or want to be "politically correct" It doesn't depend and slavery is NOT politically correct. You have to preserve this history so people will learn from it and know what it is like. To eliminate the slaves quarters is in effect glossing over history. People of every color should now the facts in order to understand better.
Anyone who says it is racist is being moronic and needs to be educated. They should realize that people witnessing these things will make them more aware, more tolerant, and less racially biased when they can see how others were treated.
I now live in Japan. Being a Caucasian in North America I never experienced racism. After living in Japan I have. The Japanese will refuse non-Japanese entrance into bars,hotels, restaurants, clubs etc. It has happened to me many times. It is quite common in rural areas of Japan.
For me this was an eye opening experience. I think maintaining the slaves quarters on the plantation serves the same purpose.

Answer 3

While I don't agree with that assessment, it seems that some people may be offended by the preservation of the memory of slavery. Many people object to the maintenance of the former plantations in the name of history or "Southern comfort," insisting that the real objective is the glorification of slavery.

This is especially so if there is a public perception that the slave quarters have been "cleaned up" from how they once were. In this case, it may seem like putting a positive gloss on an evil, abhorrent practice. If that were indeed the case, I would certainly object.

Answer 4

Some people cannot separate historical value from perosnal disapproval of a time. I absolutely hate Adolf Hitler and all he stood for but would not want every copy of Mein Kampf burned and destroyed. The American Indian was certainly mistreated and abused in our history but we wouldn't know that unless the history was available to us. The fact is that there were slaves, there were plantations and they are all a part of our history. None of us are slaves today or slave owners and regrets of the past may exist and anger over the past may exist but the history must exist even longer for us to be able to deal with it right or wrong. Some people just don't get that!

Answer 5

I suppose it depends how the quarters are presented. I would not be impressedif they were presented as an example of the glory of the south.

In my country, the prime minister has tried to bury the treatment of the aboriginal people and pretend there were no atrocities. That is a much worse action than showing the conditions under which slaves lived.

Answer 6

People get offended all the time. They should have no right to object to what gets restored by other people's money. Personally I'm from Canada and I would love to go see the slave quarters, to see how they actually lived. It would be fascinating.

Answer 7

Yes, thinking the slave quarters should be leveled is a strange attitude. Don't people travel to Africa to see exactly where the slave ships left from?

Answer 8

Those people are thinking too much. The European countries managed to turn the Nazi death camps into museums of remembrance, but Americans can't do the same for the slaves??? It's just the way things are. You shouldn't try to rewrite history, no matter how unpleasant it may have been. In fact, remembering it helps us not to replicate our mistakes.

Answer 9

Friday you lied and suggested that you weren't jobless and also you worked 10 hours an afternoon so that you'll take Friday off to troll yahoo solutions? looks like you fairly are pwt angy with blacks on your life's mess ups. I have not some thing hostile to blacks and that is the reason i do not take a seat round obsessing about them.