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Friday, July 21st, 2023

Florida Schools Will Teach How Slavery Brought ‘Personal Benefit’ to Black People

Author:     Allison Quinn
Source:     The Daily Beast
Publication Date:     20 July 2023
 Link: Florida Schools Will Teach How Slavery Brought ‘Personal Benefit’ to Black People
Stephan:  

Ron DeSantis is taking Florida public school education back to the 1870s when White Supremacists tried to decontextualize slavery as something harmless that was done to benefit Black people. DeSantis who is a sadist and without ethics has transformed Florida into an anocracy state I wouldn’t even want to visit. Watch, and you will now see other Republican controlled states do the same thing with their educational systems, and this is going to create yet more disparity between Red and Blue states.

White Supremacist MAGAt Republican Governor Ron De Santis, peddling a reversion of history back to the 1870s.
Credit: the Orlando Sentinel / Tribune News Service / Getty

Middle school students in Florida will soon be taught that slavery gave Black people a “personal benefit” because they “developed skills.”

After the Florida Board of Education approved new standards for African American history on Wednesday, high school students will be taught an equally distorted message: that a deadly white mob attack against Black residents of Ocoee, Florida, in 1920 included “acts of violence perpetrated against and by African Americans.”

Dozens of Black residents were killed in the massacre, which was perpetrated to stop them from voting.

According to members of the board, that distorted portrayal of the racist massacre is factually accurate. MaryLynn Magar, a member of the board appointed by Gov. Ron DeSantis, said at the board’s meeting in Orlando on Wednesday that “everything is there” in the new history standards and “the darkest parts of our history are addressed,” the Tallahassee Democrat reported.

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1 Comment

  1. Rev. Dean on Friday, July 21, 2023 at 7:11 am

    There is no “benefit” in being a slave.