Florida's new Black history curriculum says "slaves developed skills" that could be used for "personal benefit"
Florida's new Black history curriculum says "slaves developed skills" that could be used for "personal benefit"
The lessons will be taught to sixth through eighth grade students this year.
Welcome to black history in America. Written for you by white republicans.
I'm not sure if this says more about the minimisation of the immorality of slavery or more about how standard modern employment practices are degrading to the point they fit the definition of slavery.
Either way, it's not saying good things. Florida needs help badly.
While the isolated statement itself is technically not incorrect - think of freed slaves who survive by growing cotton on their own after the end of slavery for example - it is obviously used with the evil intention of implying that slavery was in a way beneficial to the slaves, which is a particularly sickening form of historical revisionism, especially when considering that the people who made the statement are probably descendants of slave owners who still financially benefit from slavery because of their family assets.
"Slavery was just an old term for on-call internships." ~ Florida
Conservatives dehumanize life every time they share their philosophy. Boiling people and those situations down to this is sick.
now that they're trying to cast slavery as on-the-job training keep that in mind when considering the rest of capitalism
Next they'll be saying that slavery was "good exposure".
That argument is as old as the transatlantic slave trade, possibly older. Slaves were forced into Christianity, supposedly saving them from Hell. In return, they were forced to work as slaves for their mortal lives. What skill could be more valuable than loving Jesus? The slave owners got to feel good about themselves, the slaves got Jesus and beatings and forced labor and worse, and the same twisted reasoning continues in slightly altered form here.
No slave ever learned anything beneficial by being a slave. Those skills became non beneficial simply by virtue of how they were forced on them. Even shit like farming cotton now leaves a bad taste in people's mouths because it is tainted by that trauma. And the machinery required to render hand labor for it redundant was invented around the Civil War anyway, rendering any such skills anachronistic and obsolete.
Gained insight into modern management practices
It's not like anybody was learning anything in Florida schools anyway. Too busy snorting bath salts off of alligator strippers.
It's laughable that Ron DeSaster said "woke means war on truth" when him and his band of dumbass lunatics are pushing this garbage drivel.
Scroll down to see Florida's curriculum.
Depending on the wording, maybe teachers can just add some things like sleeves develop skills that can be used for the personal benefit of their owners.
it’s certainly true that the slave trade existed in Africa for thousands of years, but it existed everywhere else for just as long - probably since inter-tribal warfare tens of thousands of years ago.
not too sure about the skill development bit unless you squint at it and are maybe a bit loose in your definition