Pinterest and The Knot will no longer promote wedding venues that operated as slave plantations, thanks to the civil rights advocacy group, Color of Change.
In 2014, Salon described plantation weddings as a “disturbing” trend, noting that certain venues inaccurately described former slaves as “workers” or glossed over the abuse, rape, and death inflicted upon enslaved people in the southern United States. One plantation owner interviewed by Salon said that her mostly-white clients “don’t express any sort of discomfort” with the land’s history.
Jade Magnus Ogunnaike, senior campaign director at Color of Change, tells Yahoo Lifestyle that some brides are drawn to plantation wedding themes to feel like Scarlett O’Hara, the Georgia heroine of the 1939 film, “Gone with the Wind.” According to BuzzFeed, The Knot Worldwide will not use language that romanticizes the history of plantations, such as “charming,” even on properties that dropped the word “plantation.” However, plantation owners will still qualify as vendors.
The Pinterest spokesperson added, “We've already started making changes, which include limiting the distribution of this content and accounts across Pinterest, including autocomplete, search recommendations, email notifications and SEO. People can still search for this content, but we now show an advisory that some results may violate our policies. We do not accept ads for these kinds of places and will continue not to.
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