Racism

 

Unexamined Nostalgia

This image comes from the Harding cabin on the Belle Meade Mansion property. 

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Gone with the wind never existed

To embrace the antebellum South, to take such pride in one’s roots in the Confederacy, requires having a blind spot to what made that gracious world of leisure possible — the enslavement of a people stolen from their continent and forced into human bondage. You have to ignore the fact that what your Confederate ancestors fought for, what they killed hundreds of thousands of their fellow Americans for, was to maintain a way of life literally built on the backs of slaves.