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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....🙄
@Richard65 Especially as slavery in Africa existed on the same level as it had existed in Europe, for centuries, generally as the result of inter-ethnic wars. Among the Romans, the Greeks, Visigoths, the Vikings and countless othersSo it was hardly unique to Sub Saharan Africa. But, when the United States, a country supposedly established with ideals of "freedom" practiced slavery, it set itself up as a land of hypocrisy. Here it should never have happened.
Richard65 · M
@bijouxbroussard exactly. Great point.
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....