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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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This was predictable. They started censoring actual history so they could create a mythological narrative: MWHA
(Make Whites Heroic Again) A ”defense" against CRT.
deadgerbil · 26-30, M
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@deadgerbil The funny thing is, that white girl, Hazel Bryan Massery, did realize this photo would be her legacy forever—hatred. So she reached out to Elizabeth Eckford and apologized. As adults they formed a friendship.
deadgerbil · 26-30, M
@bijouxbroussard I did not know that. Very interesting.

Goes to show how some people have the capacity to change for the better
@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.