Florida to teach the positive aspects of slavery in Black history

[Robert W]

Was that before or after he had 38 natives hung?

I can look it up but I believe it was before he hung the natives.

 

[Oldestyle]

Slavery and all the associated human trafficking was a dehumanizing, deeply cruel system. Slavery apologetics is beneath the dignity of any elected official.

Where in that study matter was there an apology for slavery? It simply points out how resourceful blacks were under that dehumanizing system. That's the polar OPPOSITE of what you on the left are trying to portray it as and what the two black PHD's who designed the study meant it to be. Shame on you and on Kamala Harris!

 

[John Edgar Slow Horses]

The teachers will teach a section on Slavery with components of positive and negative aspects of slavery.

They will instruct their students there were no positive aspects.

Then they will teach about the negative aspects.

 

[marvin martian]

Tell you what Lenny. Come work for me and I’ll treat you as the slaves were treated.

I know you mean that, given the fact that your ancestors owned slaves.

 

[Faun]

Actually it's not untrue that a lot of black slaves ended up learning things they otherwise did not know and once they were freed they were better off for it.

Let's be honest. Before they came here they were sitting in a bit with dirty balls, captured, and enslaved by others blacks and sold into slavery because that is all they were worth. If they had any intelligence or were valuable in some way they wouldn't had been slaves.

It's also not untrue that the descendants of slaves have a better life here than they would if they were born in Africa. They should be thanking their slave ancestors because now they have air conditioning, chance to go to college, have jobs with health insurance and so on.

But of course blacks learning to better themselves hasn't always turned out the best. Like all the ones who became slave owners themselves because let's face, the majority of blacks are savages.

Blacks Owning Blacks: The Story of William Ellison – Cathedral of Liberty

William Ellison Jr. (c. April 1790 – December 5, 1861), born April Ellison, was a U.S. cotton gin maker and blacksmith in South Carolina, and former African-American slave who achieved considerable success as a slaveowner before the American Civil War.

heritagepost.org

So if you can be kidnapped, stripped away from your family, taken away against your will to another country, forced into a life of labor where you're not paid and provided scraps for food and clothes just to keep you alive so you can keep working but... at the same time, you get to learn a new language and live in a better place, it's all worth it??

Then why aren't you signing up for that to live a better life?

Another question... Nazi's brutally slaughtered some 6 million Jews (along with millions of others) ... but that led to the birth of Israel. So the Holocaust was a good thing because Jews now have a state of their own?

 

[John Edgar Slow Horses]

Faun owns Rensic.

 

[Chillicothe]

"Democrats persist in tearing down statues showing the struggle the South had living with the North ........"

Ummm, my avatar would demur on the above.
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Rather, the more accurate and current thought is:

"Americans persist in tearing down statues......that were wrongly erected to honor traitors to America and signal to black citizens that the white men who fought to keep them enslaved were still heroes to some other white men who still controlled their neighborhoods. So they need watch their step."

 

[marvin martian]

Conservatives attempting to defend the lie that enslaved Americans somehow ‘benefited’ from being in bondage is yet another example of how bold conservatives have become in expressing their racism and hate.

Conservatives embracing this racist revisionism is nothing new, of course; conservatives can’t seek to demonize and vilify black Americans if there are factual and current accounts of how Americans of color were disadvantages the consequence of slavery, Black Codes, Jim Crow, segregation, and the rightwing racism that exists today.

No one is doing that.

Here's a handy 4 step list that illustrates how dumb people like you keep falling for stories like this over and over and over and over again...

 

[tahuyaman]

Florida Middle Schoolers Will Now Be Taught That Slavery Had ‘Personal Benefit’ for Enslaved People

New academic standards slammed as "a big step backward" will require teachers to instruct that enslaved people "developed skills which, in some instances, could be applied for their personal benefit"

ca.sports.yahoo.com

Newly approved academic standards from Florida’s Board of Education will require middle schools to teach that enslaved people "developed skills which, in some instances, could be applied for their personal benefit" — a line that has ignited significant controversy among teachers' groups.

The standards, which were approved Wednesday, come in response to the state's 2022 "Stop WOKE Act," which stated that race must be taught in "an objective manner" that does not "indoctrinate or persuade students to a particular point of view." The measure pushed far-right lawmakers' rhetoric that teaching Black history makes White people feel ashamed, instructing that no student should be made to feel "guilt" or "responsibility" for actions previously committed by members of the same race.

In a state where the citizens describe mask mandates as "slavery" they take a very charitable view of actual slavery. It seems that chains and whips and rapings were misunderstood. They were actually programmes that helped black people become more useful slaves.

Its a novel approach to history but I suspect that the usual suspects will sieze on this and interpret it as Gov DeSantis being some sort of fascist.

People can be unkind in that regard.

How long will liberals repeat this lie.

 

[John Edgar Slow Horses]

The lie is that it is not a step backwards. It certainly is.

 

[protectionist]

Ummm, my avatar would demur on the above.
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Rather, the more accurate and current thought is:

"Americans persist in tearing down statues......that were wrongly erected to honor traitors to America and signal to black citizens that the white men who fought to keep them enslaved were still heroes to some other white men who still controlled their neighborhoods. So they need watch their step."

Most of the civil war had nothing to do with slavery, especially from the southern viewpoint.

 

[Chillicothe]

"Most of the civil war had nothing to do with slavery, especially from the southern viewpoint."

Despite making that very claim in their State's 'independence' charters.
They put it in 'em, because they meant it.
They wanted slavery to continue.
And were willing to kill to keep it.
And did kill.
They killed free American citizens...thousands of 'em, to continue enslaving.

 

[Markle]

Let's be honest.

American Negro chattel slavery is an enduring, forever stain on American history and culture.

For how many more years?

The Vikings plundered, raped, and took slaves all the way into the Mediterranean. Are they still responsible? For how many more years?

 

[John Edgar Slow Horses]

Markle, your comparison is a nothing.

We are talking about America, our culture, our now and future as well as the past.

There was nothing good about it.

 

[Markle]

Still doesn’t make it right.

Nope, but it doesn't make it an excuse for generations either.

 

[MinTrut]

So you disagree with my statement?

My take on your comments is as follows:

You are spectacularly in the weeds.

You are so lost it's scary.

Didn't you used to moderate here?

That's even scarier.

Anyhoo, yeah - the curriculum isn't saying Blacks benefitted from slavery.

That's just the voices in your head.

 

[MinTrut]

Liberals are left leaning. That makes them leftists

Some may lean left on some issues, as may some conservatives.

But liberals are not the left anymore than this curriculum claims that Blacks benefitted from slavery.

 

[MinTrut]

Where in that study matter was there an apology for slavery? It simply points out how resourceful blacks were under that dehumanizing system. That's the polar OPPOSITE of what you on the left are trying to portray it as and what the two black PHD's who designed the study meant it to be. Shame on you and on Kamala Harris!

Yes, but that poster isn't on the left.

He's a liberal.

 

[MinTrut]

How long will liberals repeat this lie.

Forever.

Truth doesn't matter to cultists; they cannot think for themselves.

It would be sad, but their destructive drag on society is so great that it's really more like a public health risk.

Could Pfizer develop a vaccine maybe...?

 

[MinTrut]

I'm now upping my offer, and anyone - not just the delusional OP who refused to do so - can take me up on it.

For each and every poster who can show that this curriculum states that enslaved Blacks benefitted from slavery, I will donate $1,000 to the forum.

If not, the poster/s making this false claim must donate $1,000.

I'll now sit back and wait for the liberal silence.