AA medical school classmates standing in front of slave quarters of their ancestors (amazing pic)

[fleur-de-lisa]

Sy @_botttt

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

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[magicarpet]

1. The sweat, toil, and labor of slaves brought from the continent of Africa built the original...

.... White House also.

[sheshe2]

2. That makes me tear up a bit.

That is one powerful picture. Whoever set the scene is brilliant. From the slave cabin, to the medical students dressed in black and white, then the two slave children dressed in their overalls, wow that is history right there. You don't notice the two children at first, two ancestors from the past.

Thank you so much for posting this, fleur.

[cwydro]

12. I'll bet they had tears too.

What a great pic.

[sheshe2]

15. Not sure if you are able to blow up the pic.

I have a touchscreen and when you see their expressions enlarged...

Takes my breath away.

[cwydro]

21. I'll do that.

Thanks. I’m like you. It’s a moving picture, and I felt tears too.

Not really a religious person, but I like to think their ancestors are smiling down on them.

[sheshe2]

22. They are smiling...

I lost my religious beliefs long ago to.

[fleur-de-lisa]

29. I cried when I first saw it.

[cp]

3. Made me cry

with pride and love.

[littlemissmartypants]

4. ❤

[brush]

5. Obstacles be damned. The mere presence of African Americans...

still here with prospering attests to the toughnest of my people.

And without the 40 acres and the mule promised—or any other reparations (reparations for centuries of stolen labor and racism still owed, but that's a topic for another thread).

[MLAA]

6. 👏🏿👏🏿👏🏽👏🏽👏🏿👏🏿👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏿

[a kennedy]

18. Love your post.......

[MLAA]

40. Love your impotus emoticon! Yellow straw on a pile of sh*t!

[greymattermom]

7. Go see the Whitney Plantation if you get a chance.

It's a very moving experience. I still have entry badges Carlyle Stewart and Hunton Love.

[Talitha]

8. VERY powerful photo!!

They're definitely being smiled on from above.

[Dem2theMax]

9. Weeping for the history,

smiling like crazy for this generation and all they are doing. I can't even begin to imagine what that must have felt like, to stand in that exact spot, and to know how far these young men and women have come.

[Karadeniz]

10. Yay!! That photo will become an heirloom in each family!❤

[cwydro]

11. Rec.

[TheBlackAdder]

13. K&R

[iluvtennis]

14. Wow, that's an amazing tribute to their forebearers....thanks for the post. nt

[smirkymonkey]

16. Amazing photo!

Makes me tear up just looking at it.

[volstork]

17. Awesome!

"We are truly our ancestors’ wildest dreams."

[NurseJackie]

19. Thank you for sharing that!

[Farmer-Rick]

20. Where did the 2 children in overalls come from?

[sheshe2]

23. Here

Whitney Plantation in Louisiana casts cold look at slave trade through chilling exhibits




https://www.nola.com/entertainment_life/article_c8fa758f-3981-56dd-b5a7-d18184be404f.html

[lunatica]

33. Those photos are stark!

The article says more and more confederate statues are being taken down. I hope they’re putting them in a museum of shame somewhere.

Thanks for posting the article.

[sheshe2]

41. You are welcome, lunatica.

[Farmer-Rick]

37. Wow very powerful

An image of an abused child slave should be put everywhere slave labor was used.

Hmmm, maybe I'll start a nonprofit.

[Gothmog]

24. This is a very powerful photograph.

[BlancheSplanchnik]

25. K&R!

[crickets]

26. That is so beautiful! I got all choked up. Thanks for posting this. nt

[Upthevibe]

27. Wow....quite powerful....

Thank you for posting.

[warmfeet]

28. This is the direction we need to go.

No stopping now.

[klook]

30. Incredible.

Very moving.

[Hermit-The-Prog]

31. photo alone ...

[fleur-de-lisa]

38. Thank you.

[lunatica]

32. What a powerful photograph!

Thanks for posting it!

[Dorian Gray]

34. This gives me chills

so powerful an image

[obamanut2012]

35. Powerful

[panader0]

36. Recommended.

[fleur-de-lisa]

39. Another thing I find so wonderful about this picture is that most of the students are women.

When I switched medical facilities a few years ago, I had the option of choosing which doctor would be my primary care physician. I chose a young black woman and she is fantastic!

I chose a young man of Indian descent as my pain management doctor and his nurse practitioner is a black man.

My endocrinologist is a woman of Indian descent.

My gynocologist and my dermotologist are both white women.

The only white male doctor that I see is a neurologist. He is the only doctor close to me who is in my network and is also licensed to administer Botox for migraine.

[tishaLA]

42. And so many are women.

Very powerful.