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

Yes as you are trying to imply whites had anything to do with starting slavery. whites ended it. #bemoregrateful

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Wrong.

That's not what he said at all.

What he stated is that while slavery was bad, they used the skills they learned at their new jobs when they were freed

Page 2 is glitchy for me. I see a lot skipping - 26 to 30 to 36, nothing in between. Does anyone else have that?

I don't know of there is anything factual in your entire post. Torture, rape, murder? Rare, even rarer, and almost never. Slaves were expensive; you didn't just buy one and kill him. That's like going out and buying a Lamborghini and then crashing it into a brick wall just for fun. Plantation owners did not get any work out of a corpse. They wanted a return on their investment.

Most slaves were treated well by their owners which it another reason why so many of them went back. There definitely were cruel owners but they were the minority. Sorry to inform you, but Uncle Tom's Cabin was an abolitionist propaganda piece. Much of it was heavily exaggerated.

No, the ex-slaves were NOT treated as slaves after returning. They had rights under the Constitution. Were they discriminated against? Certainly. They were heavily discriminated against in the North at the time, too. "Slave" had nothing to do with it; "Black" did.

And you should rea up on the Emancipation Proclamation because you obviously have no idea what its purpose was or carefully it was written.

Also, contrary to the libs' narrative of "racist Florida whites", the head of the state department of education is Hispanic. Are the liberals going to claim he's racist as well?

No I don't, I think if that statement triggers you, you should get your head checked. You're making this into something that it isn't.

Here's one example of the point being made.

Here's another

Nobody is saying "slavery was good for slaves" except deranged leftists who are inferring that to make political attacks on Desantis. If hearing the fact that skilled slaves used their skills to their benefit - you know, like being able to make their own stuff, make money or even BUY THEIR FREEDOM - makes you angry, then you need help.

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Pre-Civil War African-American Slavery | National Expansion and Reform, 1815 - 1880 | U.S. History Primary Source Timeline | Classroom Materials at the Library of Congress | Library of Congress

African Americans had been enslaved in what became the United States since early in the 17th century.

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This is exactly how Rightists want us to start thinking--that nothing (except probably something Hunter Biden did) is an absolute moral transgression. There's always a "good" side to whatever harm White capitalism inflicts. So what if, in this case, the transgression we're talking about is generations of human slavery? Let me restate: generations of White humans owning the rights to Black humans' lives. The rights to Black human lives were sold for money, and those Black bodies were considered property of others, with no legal agency for themselves. And now you're saying that nothing is black and white? Because, in the process of being owned by another person, a few Black people learned how to plant and cultivate beans? Because, in the process of being owned by another person, a few house-workers learned how to cook fancy food? (Of course, many more than a few enslaved people learned far more than this--about resistance, survival, the depths of human depravity, etc. But I'm not going to enumerate these alleged skills learned; it's just not the point.)

What DeSantis and Let It Rupp want is for the national conversation around slavery to forever include the sidebar about the former enslaved person who "used the skills he learned on the plantation to amass a small fortune in the building trades business and achieve a level of influence and respect in his community that would have been unimaginable just ten years before." At least in Florida, they hope, slavery will always have a silver lining like this. "Oh, slavery was bad," people like Let It Rupp will say, "but slaves did learn skills that they used for profit later." In other words, for DeSantis, Let It Rupp, and all of the children learning under the new Florida standards, slavery becomes a sort of apprenticeship program. Anything--anything--to deflect from the fact that slavery is an absolute wrong of human ownership perpetrated by White Americans on Black Africans and Black Americans.

(It is also true, as others have said, that a molested child may "learn the skill" of curling up into a protective ball when attacked, and an abused spouse may "learn the skill" of dialing 9-1-1 quickly even with a swollen left eye and broken wrist. I look forward to hearing about the lessons in Florida health classes on these "skills.")

Teacher: skilled slaves were able to use those skills to make money, become more self-sufficient and in rare cases buy their freedom.

Libs: ZOMG YOU'RE LITERALLY SAYING SLAVERY WAS GOOD. YOU'RE WHITEWASHING HISTORY TO APPEASE WHITE SUPREMACISTS!!!!!

I read further and it's perfectly reasonable.

"SS.912.AA.4.10 Identify key legislation and the politicians and political figures who advanced American equality and representative democracy.
Benchmark Clarifications:
Clarification 1: Instruction includes political figures who shaped the modern Civil Rights efforts (e.g., Arthur Allen Fletcher, President Dwight D. Eisenhower, President John F. Kennedy, President Lyndon B. Johnson, President Richard Nixon, Senator Everett Dirksen, Mary McLeod Bethune, Shelby Steele, Thomas Sowell, Representative John Lewis).
Clarification 2: Instruction includes key legislation (i.e., Civil Rights Act of 1957, 1960, 1964, 1967 and 1972 Title VII, Voting Rights Act of 1965).
SS.912.AA.4.11
SS.912.AA.4.12
Analyze the role of famous African Americans who contributed to the visual and performing arts(e.g.,Florida Highwaymen,Marian Anderson, Alvin Ailey, Misty Copeland).
Analyze economic, political, legal and social experiences of African Americans and their contributions and sacrifices to American life from 1960 to present.
Benchmark Clarifications:
Clarification 1: Instruction includes the use of statistical census data between 1960 to present, comparing African American participation in higher education, voting, poverty rates, income, family structure, incarceration rates and number of public servants.
Clarification 2: Instruction includes the Great Society’s influence on the African American experience. Clarification 3: Instruction includes but is not limited to African American pioneers in their field (e.g., President Barack Obama, Vice President Kamala Harris, Secretary of State Colin Powell, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, Justice Clarence Thomas, Representative Shirley Chisholm, Arthur Ashe, Ronald McNair)."

Really, what did the slaves have to complain about? They were alive weren't they? It's not as if they were dead or anything. Yup - it wasn't all bad. Florida knows how to get it straight.

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I think you fail to understand that the concepts you listed are important to understanding the African American experience in colonial America and pre-Emancipation. They are taught in every first section of US History at the college level and in any African American History class.
I would wager these concepts are part of every curriculum in all states. I hope so because understanding these concepts will prepare them well for the same discussions they will have freshman year.

This is a perfect example of whitewashing history.

Can we talk about the valuable skills white people were able to learn because they weren't toiling away in the fields all day? Privileges that persist to today?

Because you call somone a racist, does not in fact make them a racist. Race baiters like you water down the meaning of the word racist.

There is something spooky about this whole thing. It feels so middle ages, culty, Jim Jones, if she drowns she wasnt a witch. Except its happening in broad daylight without any shame in 2023.

Now you're revising history. Not all slaves were unskilled laborers, you should have learned this in high school or middle school. Educate yourself. You can start by using your f*cking eyeballs and refer to the post I made right before the one you quoted.

So you are a proud member of the " ahh they dint have it that bad" group? Same group that says the civil war "had nothing to do with slavery" (an actual quote by a tour guide when i was in Charleston). Exceptions dont make it OK numnutts. You are trying to hard to make it OK.