Florida Schools Will Teach How Slavery Brought 'Personal Benefit' to Black People WTF

[douglas9]

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.

The majority of the speakers who provided public testimony on the planned curriculum were vehemently opposed to it, warning that crucial context is omitted, atrocities are glossed over, and in some cases students will be taught to “blame the victim.”

https://www.thedailybeast.com/florida-schools-will-teach-how-slavery-brought-personal-benefit-to-black-people

[hlthe2b]

1. Perhaps these proponenents should spend a year or two demonstrating as slaves

[Timeflyer]

2. This is the curriculum you get when Hillsdale College is in charge of state Dept. of Ed. and Gov.

[Chainfire]

3. George Orwell was a clairvoyant genius.

I guess the next thing that they will teach is the slaves were much better off on the plantations than they would have been in Africa; and the blacks should be thanking us and paying reparations for having rescued them.

Florida has become the wolkenkuckucksheim that Republicans (and other Fascists) dream of. I am deeply ashamed of my home state's government. The clowns are running the Florida circus.

[no_hypocrisy]

4. That's down there with an Orthodox rabbi

Insisting to me that God sent Hitler to help the Jews. I’m serious!

[bullimiami]

5. ok fuckers. if it was so fucking good, lets flip it. white floridians be a slave to a black person.

how about for just one year. volunteer.
put all your possessions in storage, freeze your assets and get one full year of "personal benefit"

no holds barred, personal benefit, same rules and rights that former slaves had.

then lets talk and I might give some small effort to listen to your opinions.
until then. STFU.

[WalkerinSC]

6. I imagine the WWII lessons include messages like

the Wehrmacht invasion of Poland in 1939 included violence against and by Poles, the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising included killings of and by Jews, and Concentration/Extermination Camps provided some Jews the personal benefit of job training in skills including dentistry, barbering, Furnace operations and railway logistics.

[Hermit-The-Prog]

7. When will this republiKKKan nightmare end?

[LetMyPeopleVote]

8. This lesson plan is rewriting history