If you have any black friends, which I somehow doubt, why don’t you discuss your beliefs and feelings about this and see how they feel. If you don’t have any black friends and are in a waiting room waiting for a car repair, in a doctor’s office, or whatever, strike up a conversation with a black personality and casually work your views into your discussion.
I dare you.
I don't have feelings on the subject. Did slaves not learn skills working on farms and plantations? If they did, can you somehow explain why that fact would make slavery morally good? I don't believe it would, but you and the other screeching idiots seem to think so.
People can learn skills in pretty much any setting. Would it weird if I said that Jewish people learned skills during the Holocaust that helped them post World War Two?
Im sure this article represents what Florida is doing in an overly simplistic manner, but if there is truth that they have teach positives skills that african americans learned while slaves, that is just asinine.
fwiw, slavery and civil rights have always been taught in a cartoonish way. I didn't know about that Africans participated in the slave trade until I was 25. The whole Rosa Parks thing was staged, along with other incidents. I don't even think it's wrong that they did that. But it shouldn't have taken 50 years for the story to come out. Those stories shouldn't have been taught as fact 40 years after they achieved what they needed to.
bottom line, while im not in favor of what's going on in FLorida, im in not in favor of how the other has presented things and how they want to continue to present things in the future. And white kids today should certainly not have to put up with being brow beaten about the color of their skin.
I could see it making sense if the topic was something like:
Post civil war, upon gaining their freedom, what skills did the former slaves have to survive outside of the confines of slavery? What skills were they denied?
It's a relevant discussion to everything they had to overcome during the Jim Crow period and beyond, and even where they are today.
"Aside from that, how did you enjoy the show, Mrs. Lincoln"
How you can rationalize this is beyond me.
I don't have to rationalize anything. Slavery can be bad, but slaves could have been able to use the skills learned working on plantations for employment in post-abolition. These two things can be true at once.
This is a defensible argument if you don't look too closely, but once you consider the context, it really falls apart.
First, this change in curriculum came after DeSantis threatened to kick The College Board out of the Florida school system altogether if they kept the same AP AA Studies curriculum that they were using in other locations.
Second, this is part and parcel of his overall efforts to use the Florida educational systems as the primary battlefield in his culture wars (see what he did with New College, see what he did with book bans, see what he did with banning LGBTQ+ clubs from having trans speakers at their after-school meetings, see what he has done with school vouchers, see what he has done with threatening to replace school board members who voted for masking policies . . .).
Third, there are lots of things that might be true, but they aren't necessarily relevant. The addition of those things to a conversation is a simple effort to distract from the primary point of the conversation. The fact that some useful skills may have been imparted upon the enslaved simply isn't relevant to the conversation about that chapter in our nation's life (and certainly not relevant to the generations of slaves who lived in died in bondage prior to 1865).
To be fair though, I'm not even sure that DeSantis is actually a racist. I think he may just be a sociopath who will take any action that he believes will get the kind of attention that he thinks he needs to advance his political career or further amass power.
"Aside from that, how did you enjoy the show, Mrs. Lincoln"
How you can rationalize this is beyond me.
I don't have to rationalize anything. Slavery can be bad, but slaves could have been able to use the skills learned working on plantations for employment in post-abolition. These two things can be true at once.
Your argument is no different from justifying WW2 era Jewish imprisonment and death camps due to the value of autopsy experiments. Your argument is no different from justifying WW2 era Jewish imprisonment and death camps due to the skills learned building German rockets. Btw., autopsy experiments were done on African American slaves. I want to see you type about autopsy experiments on African American slaves.
"Aside from that, how did you enjoy the show, Mrs. Lincoln"
How you can rationalize this is beyond me.
I don't have to rationalize anything. Slavery can be bad, but slaves could have been able to use the skills learned working on plantations for employment in post-abolition. These two things can be true at once.
Your argument is no different from justifying WW2 era Jewish imprisonment and death camps due to the value of autopsy experiments. Your argument is no different from justifying WW2 era Jewish imprisonment and death camps due to the skills learned building German rockets. Btw., autopsy experiments were done on African American slaves. I want to see you type about autopsy experiments on African American slaves.
"Aside from that, how did you enjoy the show, Mrs. Lincoln"
How you can rationalize this is beyond me.
I don't have to rationalize anything. Slavery can be bad, but slaves could have been able to use the skills learned working on plantations for employment in post-abolition. These two things can be true at once.
Your argument is no different from justifying WW2 era Jewish imprisonment and death camps due to the value of autopsy experiments. Your argument is no different from justifying WW2 era Jewish imprisonment and death camps due to the skills learned building German rockets. Btw., autopsy experiments were done on African American slaves. I want to see you type about autopsy experiments on African American slaves.
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