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Black Med Students Pose for Powerful Picture Outside Old Slave Quarters

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Russell Ledet, a second-year medical student at Tulane, decided to organize a trip to the Whitney Plantation in Louisiana with his fellow black medical students to take a photo in front of the plantation's former slave quarters. The photo has since gone viral, and Ledet explained the intention behind the photo while speaking to NPR.

He stated, "I wanted this photo to just show: We're here. This place is meant to destroy us. This place is meant to devalue us. But we here." Ledet's classmate Sydney Labat also tweeted out a message of another photo of the group, writing, "Standing in front of the slave quarters of our ancestors, at The Whitney Plantation, with my medical school classmates. We are truly our ancestors’ wildest dreams."

Ledet also told NPR, "We were two African American males getting our Ph.D.s at NYU School of Medicine. There just aren't that many of us out there. We wanted to make sure that we remain tied to our history and remain humble, you know, and understand whose shoulders we're climbing on — and pay homage."

Thoughts?
 
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I was just at that plantation In August .....life changing experience for real....I recommend this every black person....extremely sobering


They also shot some scenes in Django and 12 years a slave there
 
Hmmmm.

I'm bout to be pralims about some posts.
But I can see the meaning and statement made.
 
When I was a kid living in the projects, dem rich white folks used to do out reach to underprivileged kids. We used to get bused from our projects to Boone Hall Plantation for summer camp.

What's ill, is at that age we all had knowledge of what slavery was and that our ancestors were slaves. But at the school I went to, which was predominantly black both in staff and students.

They uplifted us to where we didnt know that we were marginalized. They took us elementary school kids to see To Kill A Mockingbird, The Malcom X movie, various poet reads from black authors. They made us feel like we great people.

Funny enough it was everything outside of that school that told us the opposite. But..back to Boone Hall, they would walk us around the Plantation and give us the history. They called the slaves.."servants"..as in this is where the servants slept, or entertained. It at no point was erriy to me or my friends.

Our field trip used to go to Charlestown Landings, which is another ex plantation. The market where they sold slaves has always been downtown. The city is rich with the history of the oppression of black people.

I've been around the spirit of it for so long that I can disassociate myself from it. Because none of it identifies with me, and that's largely in part due to the years of work of the elders before me. To make that so..

I know it's the unpopular opinion, but its like..they didnt go through all of that just so we can keep identifying with being slaves. And I dont like that we do that..its like the meme of Jesus saying..why da fuck do you people worship crosses? I died on one.
 
Elzo69Renaissance said:
I was just at that plantation In August .....life changing experience for real....I recommend this every black person....extremely sobering


They also shot some scenes in Django and 12 years a slave there
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This is an interesting post.

What other things do you recommend?
 
Alle'Oop said:
When I was a kid living in the projects, dem rich white folks used to do out reach to underprivileged kids. We used to get bused from our projects to Boone Hall Plantation for summer camp.

What's ill, is at that age we all had knowledge of what slavery was and that our ancestors were slaves. But at the school I went to, which was predominantly black both in staff and students.

They uplifted us to where we didnt know that we were marginalized. They took us elementary school kids to see To Kill A Mockingbird, The Malcom X movie, various poet reads from black authors. They made us feel like we great people.

Funny enough it was everything outside of that school that told us the opposite. But..back to Boone Hall, they would walk us around the Plantation and give us the history. They called the slaves.."servants"..as in this is where the servants slept, or entertained. It at no point was erriy to me or my friends.

Our field trip used to go to Charlestown Landings, which is another ex plantation. The market where they sold slaves has always been downtown. The city is rich with the history of the oppression of black people.

I've been around the spirit of it for so long that I can disassociate myself from it. Because none of it identifies with me, and that's largely in part due to the years of work of the elders before me. To make that so..

I know it's the unpopular opinion, but its like..they didnt go through all of that just so we can keep identifying with being slaves. And I dont like that we do that..its like the meme of Jesus saying..why da fuck do you people worship crosses? I died on one.
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I kinda feel the same.

I honestly glad I learned about slavery an it's what pushes me. If I don't become more than they want me to be I failed them an those after me.

It's like what are you right now to the future of others. And who made the path for you to get to where I am.

Who am I to waste people's time when they didn't have time to waste.
 
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