New Florida standards teach students that some Black people benefited from slavery because it taught useful skills — ABC News
Florida history lesson: Slavery as an unpaid internship? Tampa Bay Times
The standards, which were blasted by a statewide teachers’ union as a “step backward,” were approved Wednesday by the State Board of Education.
How could anyone calling themselves an educator have approved a piece of crap like these new history standards? There should be a special place in Hell for anyone with so little professional integrity than they would cave in on principles and truths to support DeSantis’s racist agenda.
The following information puts a lie to the idea that slaves felt any benefit from the South’s “Peculiar Institution.” Only racists, liars and idiots believe or try to sell the idea that slaves wanted to exist in such an institution. The following information points out how totally idiotic is the propositions advanced by supporters of Florida’s new history standards.
“Numerous slave rebellions and insurrections took place in North America during the 17th, 18th, and 19th centuries. There is documentary evidence of more than 250 uprisings or attempted uprisings involving ten or more slaves. One of the first was at San Miguel de Gualdape, the first European settlement in what would become the United States. Three of the best known in the United States during the 19th century are the revolts by Gabriel Prosser in Virginia in 1800, Denmark Vesey in Charleston, South Carolina in 1822, and Nat Turner’s Slave Rebellion in Southampton County, Virginia, in 1831.
Drapetomania was a supposed mental illness invented by American physician Samuel A. Cartwright in 1851 that allegedly caused black slaves to run away. Today, drapetomania is considered an example of pseudoscience, and part of the edifice of scientific racism.
Slave resistance in the antebellum South did not gain the attention of academic historians until the 1940s, when historian Herbert Aptheker started publishing the first serious scholarly work [27] on the subject. Aptheker stressed how rebellions were rooted in the exploitative conditions of the Southern slave system. He traversed libraries and archives throughout the South, managing to uncover roughly 250 similar instances.” — Wikipedia
Maybe we should start an internship program for White students where we beat and whip them. Keep them locked up in chains. Rape their wives and lovers. Send their children away. Starve them when they don’t study or work hard enough. We can see how much this “motivation” helps them to learn “useful” life skills.
Aging Capriciously 
Jul 22, 2023 @ 07:32:56
Hear, hear. Just when you think there’s no more cruelty and idiocy left in the world, and this in the wealthiest so-called democracy that pretends to believe that they give everyone an equal chance at a good life. I’m pondering how my blog post on this egregious situation will unfold. Thanks for getting the ball rolling, John.
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Jul 22, 2023 @ 07:35:51
Thanks Jane, the more of us that speak out the faster we can erase this cruelty and bigotry. John
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Jul 22, 2023 @ 08:54:26
It truly is unfuking-believable. DeSantis and his ilk are embodying the same discourse & narrative as Nazi Germany. The fact there are “academics” (I use the term very loosely) who endorse and disseminate such toxic, dangerous and divisive misinformation & disinformation is deeply concerning. They’re aiming for a 1984ish handmaiden’s tail landscape.
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Jul 22, 2023 @ 09:08:07
Very well put. I could never had said it better or more succinctly. Thank you for taking the time to comment. The more of us that speak out the better I believe. John
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Jul 22, 2023 @ 09:28:51
Definitely idiotic but I do think a lot of us are at the stage of shoulder shrugging concerning the totally idiotic news coming from so many fronts in the US these days.
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Jul 22, 2023 @ 12:00:05
True Wayne, but some still strike me as more egregious than others in terms of impact. John
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Jul 22, 2023 @ 17:38:30
OUTRAGEOUS!!! BUT SO TYPICAL OF THE BULLSHIT REALLY BELIVED BY A LOT OF PEOPLE!!! THESE PEOPLE SURVIVED FOR THOUSANDS OF YEARS BEFORE WHITE MAN CAME AND INTEERFERED, SHOT AND MURDERED THESE PEOPLE. OUR ABORIGINES SURVIVED VERY WELL FOR 65,000 YEARRS WITH OUT ANY HELP FROM FUCKING WHITE PEOPLE!!!!
HOW DARE YOU!!!
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