Florida introduces new standards REQUIRED when teaching Black history 🤦🏽‍♂️

I agree this lie about slavery benefiting a slave I'd only some BS that a racist POS would ever dare say in another weak attempt to make themselves look good for being evil.

Chattel slavery wasn't a jobs program that taught beneficial skills. It was straight racism at its worse to dehumanize and subjugate people as property.

Always a dumb white boy telling black folks what is good for them...regardless of the person's level in life. You are the definition of a racist white MF. You literally think you are superior to every black person just because you are white. Dude, you aren't in any position to tell anyone anything...especially black people about their condition anywhere on the planet.

Your dumb a** answer is all people were oppressed. MF we are talking about America and what happened 4 and 5 generations ago.....none of which your white a** people were enslaved. You were the oppressor and now want to down play your role in that oppression by saying my family was oppressed in Europe a thousands of years ago. STFU.

Actually, I’ve lived and practiced law in Florida since for nearly 25 years.

My wife is a volunteer public education advocate who has testified at state senate committee hearings against the recently enacted school voucher program, and testified this week at the DOE hearings on this curriculum. She was chair of the county League of Women Voters’ (a non-partisan group) education committee, and is VP of the public education caucus, and in each of those capacities she used her experience as a lawyer to analyze education related legislation. She’s also running for school board.

So I’m actually pretty plugged into what has actually been happening in my state. And as an NPA (Florida’s version on an independent) I voted for DeSantis over Gillum (but voted for the moderate Crist over DeSantis).

But I’m sure it’s more fun to dismiss my understanding of the issues and my objectivity because it doesn’t fit the narrative.

Florida has mandated that middle school kids in history when American chattel slavery is taught must say that slaves benefitted from skills learned during their enslavement. WTF?

So...just gloss over the million instances of human atrocities that took place to try to show a benefit of slavery. The audacity of some racists.

If you really wanted slaves to have some skills to benefit them, why did you forbid them to learn to read and write?

Apparently, people checked the list of examples given by the Florida board, and they found them to be nearly entirely wrong. Most of the people listed were NEVER even enslaved. One of the people listed was actually George Washington's (white) sister.

NOBODY IS SAYING SLAVERY WAS GOOD FOR SLAVES. THEY WERE POINTING OUT THAT SOME TOOK ADVANTAGE OF SKILLS THEY LEARNED WHILE ENSLAVED. I don't understand how anyone could be this stupid.

Well, that table shows some blacks indeed learned skills during slavery and benefited from those skills later on. If you can delete the dubious ones and add a couple better examples, that’s worth an A in African Studies.

Instead of listing what he's done you listed your wife's credentials.

The media lies about what DeSantis has actually done on a daily basis.

As the OP said, it’s the equivalent of saying Jews in concentration camps benefitted from learning new work skills and a diet.

Remember, not all concentration camps were death camps. All, even the death camps, were originally slave labor camps and continued as such through the war.

I'm sure that you are a very bright individual, well above average, but TheAdultInTheRoom is correct, the media (95% liberal) does lie about DeSantis and there's no way someone with your intelligence couldn't know that already without someone pointing it out for you.

I'm NOT insulting you and I'm fine if you are a liberal in hiding, but please be honest. If the media were 95% Conservative, I'd never deny it, but it's not.

Carry on mate and good on your wife for doing what she's doing.

Pissants in Texas jumping on the Florida dick-wagon, and I guess this is another state I will never visit or do business with in any form whatsoever. S-holes.

Texas lawmakers find consensus on bill banning diversity, equity and inclusion offices in public universities

Misguided actions from misguided state legislature.

texastribune.org

Texas lawmakers find consensus on bill banning diversity, equity and inclusion offices in public universities

@McGeeReports

Gov. Greg Abbott signed the bill on June 14, making Texas the second state in the country, after Florida, to ban DEI offices at public universities.

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You’re an idiot.

DeSantis has zero chance. When u go against m*ga u get the horns. The guy is irrelevant and that’s why the media is pouring so much time in him. but there’s a new voting class now

God bless you so, you’re actually serious hahaha 🤪 😂

I love how LR threads that clearly go on too long become backwash, this thread being no exception. DeSantis is a loser, as soon as he has to debate Trump he is toast and will fade into obscurity where he came.

Bill sponsor, racist POS Sen. Brandon Creighton, R-Conroe, celebrated the bill's passage.
"The days of political oaths, compelled speech, and racial profiling in university hiring are behind us," he said in a statement. "Moving forward, Texas will prioritize the advancement of the most qualified individuals and endorse policies that promote diversity and equality for our great state."

Some Texas college students immediately condemned the decision to send the legislation to the governor, and pledged to continue pushing to make universities welcoming to all students.

"Our lawmakers fundamentally misunderstand the role of DEI in reconciling a longstanding history of systemic exclusion in Texas’s institutions of higher learning. DEI represents a dedication to create and maintain an open and supportive environment for all students regardless of background," a group of student leaders for the group Texans Students for DEI said in a statement. "The implementation of DEI offices and practices may be banned from college campuses, but the principles of diversity, equity, and inclusion can never be removed from us, the people. We — those who care about academic pursuit, who want to engage with, learn from and walk beside people of all backgrounds, and who welcome all people — cannot be stopped."