A former slave market will be removed from the center of Georgia's first capital

[no_hypocrisy]

This should become a National Historical Landmark instead of it being torn down. No wonder So many Americans are completely ignorant of our Pro-Slavery Past. This is a National Shame!!! Why are Georgian’s and other people not raising Hell about this??? I’m sickened and discouraged at our political leadership and their systemic racism down to State and local levels. Ignorance is NOT bliss!


https://www.cnn.com/2020/08/13/us/old-market-house-to-be-removed-trnd/index.html?fbclid=IwAR0Fr-hSLwLEUgJ_GfB_5szEFDXiHr6HT2cSe37XDiOa5W1oo-C9ekYlnuU

[brush]

1. Well that's a switch. Most people nowadays want the statues and memorials taken down.

You think this should stay up and become a landmark, with the government paying maintenance expenses for perpetuity on a monument to enslavement?

[spicysista]

2. I disagree with your post.

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Make it (the telling of this particular location's importance) a part of the state history curriculum. It's a false choice to say it's either "keep the monuments to slavery" or " we'll all live in ignorance".
There are other ways to disseminate this history. Maybe the city could take the sign and add it to a museum along side a picture of the structure.
This place needs to come down.

[brush]

3. You want to keep it up?

[spicysista]

4. No!

I'd like to personally bulldoze it, myself.

[brush]

5. That's what I'm saying too. And then the land become become a part of a reparations fund.

[spicysista]

6. Now, that's what I'm talking about!