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New Florida standards teach students that some Black people benefited from slavery because it taught useful skills

Where do I begin. The thing is they could have learned these trades while not being slaves and there were probably millions who were skilled and had knowledge in whatever way before they made that journey across the Atlantic to the Americas. Acting like slavery was positive is such bullshit. And people who are pro-slavery should just admit they're pro-slavery instead of hiding it. It's always someone who believes slavery in America was not that bad because that one slaveowner they read about was nice enough to teach his slave how to read and write, even though it was illegal. All the while ignoring eyewitness accounts of slaves who escaped or tried to but were recaptured and whipped/ worked to death or the slave women who were regularly r-ped by their slave owners because they couldn't resist the "temptations of a jezebel" not to mention men and children who were also targets of s-xual assault by their slave owner or his wife and many more terrible situations that occurred on plantations.
When it comes to history, aside from the good, there are going to be parts that aren't positive and comfortable. Throughout history people did some terrible things to others, but to go as far as make a horrible point in history positive because a few people suffering from the same situation were treated a bit better is ridiculous.
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Richard65 · M
It angers me to hear racists state that black Africans engaged in slavery too. They forget (or are ignorant of) the fact that we thought Africa was savage, we even sent missionaries to the continent to "civilize" these savages. The white man saw the "savage black man" catching and selling other savage black men, but instead of being appalled at such a heinous trade, the white man decided he'd learn from the savage black African and engaged in the buying and selling of human beings for profit as well. Not only that, he practically industrialised the process and set up shipping routes for mass transportation of enslaved people to Europe and America. All of this from a so-called civilized society that had experienced the Enlightenment, knew science and philosophy, abided by benevolent religious doctrine and thought itself the apotheosis of everything good and modern and egalitarian.

But, erm, yeah, black people practiced slavery too....🙄
originnone · 61-69, M
@bijouxbroussard Maybe hypocrisy isn't the worst thing. Maybe there is something worse.....
@originnone Of course not, but hypocrisy is the fact.
originnone · 61-69, M
@bijouxbroussard The Leopold guy on this site proposed a knew national anthem that acknowledged that but still acknowledged the good things about the US....
Its just a shame learning to breathe with a cop knealing on your neck wasnt one of those skills😷
@whowasthatmaskedman Learning to breathe at the end of a noose wasn’t, either. 😞
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The fact that the board of education in FL approved it is concerning too. You'd think the education board would object to this. They know it's not true. They know how slavery needs to be taught.
deadgerbil · 26-30, M
Reminds me of this

Puppycat23 · F
@deadgerbil I think I remember reading this. What a shame.
deadgerbil · 26-30, M
@Puppycat23 it all ties into their idea that there is no systemic issues in this country, to where they want to spin slavery as a good thing
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This was predictable. They started censoring actual history so they could create a mythological narrative: MWHA
(Make Whites Heroic Again) A ”defense" against CRT.
@geoam1 I think I might be a little older. I integrated my Catholic school in 1966 and someone called in a death threat. I don’t remember protests, though.
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There was a minute in history, where people realized they had been wrong and some actually wanted to make amends. But what the Tea Party and the MAGA movement have given them are excuses for their bigotry—and in instances where there’s no excuse, they can now fall back on denial.
Kwek00 · 41-45, M
The only path to national unity is through our shared identity as Americans. That is why it is so urgent that we finally restore patriotic education to our schools. Under our leadership, the National Endowment for the Humanities has awarded a grant to support the development of a pro-American curriculum that celebrates the truth about our nation’s great history.

- President Donald J. Trump, White House History Conference, 17th of september 2020

😵
Puppycat23 · F
@Kwek00 I remembered this. As if American history wasn’t patriotic enough. 2020 felt like a fever dream.
CountScrofula · 41-45, M
It's going to be very interesting to see these kids taught lessons at school that are completely and utterly in contradiction to the society they live in.
Jump down
Turn around
Pick a bale of cotton
SW-User
They learned to farm and sing. Is that not useful?
Tres13 · 56-60, M
That's how my family talked when our father managed the conversation about history.
"The Indians weren't doing anything with that land - they were living in the stone age when we discovered them." You had to agree or my little brothers would punch you in the arm, knock you off your chair.
AthrillatheHunt · 51-55, M
Our version of slavery was a completely bastardized version of slavery. Our slavery gave slavery a bad name . Our version of slavery is what ended (for the most part ) slavery . Has it not been so brutal the practice might have continued . (I know it still does but I mean trans Atlantic ).
Puppycat23 · F
@AthrillatheHunt If slavery had not been so brutal it still would have ended. As there were abolitionists who did not agree that another human being should be viewed as property.
AthrillatheHunt · 51-55, M
@Puppycat23 I disagree. I think nobody would have batted an eye if we did the same kind of slavery that was practiced for millennia.
Our brutal brand made it unappealing to anyone with humanity .
SW-User
@AthrillatheHunt NY and Charleston had the biggest auction blocks. A little dusting off and they can be up and running.

Slaves were auctioned on Wall St. The area has always been magic for commerce!
Ya, thats so stupid. I can’t see not only a one positive thing in slavery but 0.00000000001 to the negative power of one positive anything. It should’ve never happened
Renaci · 36-40
My thoughts for whomever is thinking this is a good thing:

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Diotrephes · 70-79, M
This BS is just a way to revert to full-blown Jim Crow. Where is that damn asteroid?
Jeez Americans can never get it right- first no doubt tiktok style teachers used it to teach CRT to pitch races against each other and now they're teaching slaves benefited from it?

You Americans be crazy!
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The Leopold guy on this site proposed a knew national anthem that acknowledged that but still acknowledged the good things about the US....

The Leopold guy is a foul, brain dead, fat fetishing cuck
LordShadowfire · 46-50, M
What's fucked up is they will still claim they aren't being racist. They'll claim it all the way to their deathbeds.
empanadas · 31-35, M
Smh 🤦🏽 this country is going to shit
deadgerbil · 26-30, M
@empanadas it means you're for gay marriage

And you'll burn at the stake
empanadas · 31-35, M
@deadgerbil man, gay people deserve to be miserable in marriages too.
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@empanadas a classical liberal would be a conservative today. Liberal is a derivative of liberty which is the antithesis of the authoritarian leftists which call themselves liberals today

 
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