The new standards require instruction for middle school students to include “how slaves developed skills which, in some instances, could be applied for their personal benefit,” a document listing the standards and posted in the Florida Department of Education website said.
My mom would talk like this; she had the displeasure of being raised by people that had Klan ties and was never fully deprogrammed. Absolutely terrifying.
They were actually just unpaid interns so it’s all okay, nothing to see here
And, unlike interns, they had access to free meals and a free sleeping place! Times sure were better back then!
/s
Unpaid internship is also pretty fucked up though (unless there’s a lot of mentorship involved)
I had a kindergarten teacher lie to us that her grandfather had a slave and he liked being a slave. I don't even know why she did that, but this reminds me of it. Just straight up bullshit about slavery.
She probably did it because it’s a really comfortable thing to believe, but it’s obviously bullshit so she just kept saying it to keep believing it
Yeah, but also it was the 1980s, so I don't think it was even possible even if she was really old (she seemed like she was, but I was 5).
What in the actual living fuck‽
Oh so it’s not just that activists and critics read that as saying “slavery was beneficial,” that’s just the plain reading of the law
Holy fuck. That is unbelievably backwards.
I barely learned anything about black history in school in the 80s and 90s in Indiana. I don't even remember Black History Month being acknowledged. Things should have gotten better since then, not worse.
That's why the regressive troglodytes are on a rampage.
They can't stand that people are actually comparing notes on their Christofascist abuse. So they try to block anyone talking about race or anyone who is happy, well adjusted, and queer. It ruins their narrative for their own brainwashed members.
And the notes aren’t just what they do, it’s what works at stopping them. They know better than most how a lot of effective organization in the gay rights movement came from people who had been involved in labor struggles/communist organizing and/or the black civil rights movement.
Nothing scares them more than solidarity and cooperation
Man, I gotta get out of here. I can't wait until I have to explain to my kid how full of shit their school is.
Why not tell now?
DeSantis does not want black people learning about everything that happened to their ancestors.
He doesn't want ANYONE learning about anything even remotely bad ever happening anywhere in FL or the US ESPECIALLY if it was white people exploiting someone none white.
More to the point I think Ron DeSantis doesn't want white kids learning about everything that happened to black people or they might grow up vote against racist policies and the candidates that support those racist policies.
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