pass on the message that “slavery was so beneficial that this time white people should be enslaved” and watch the whole thing die out.
They’re already on the way to doing that. The slow striping of worker’s rights won’t have a natural end until everyone but the elites are serfs.
I can’t stop working. Even if my retirement accounts continue to exist for the three more decades it will take me to begin drawing from them, I have no way to know and absolutely no trust that they quantity of money will be sufficient to support me.
The bank can take pretty much anything I own if I lose my job and fall behind, which severely curtails my ability to do anything except exactly what I’m told at work.
What’s the major difference between this and serfdom, except that my current lords don’t even have to supply me with food and shelter directly?
It was beneficial.
To white property owners. Much to the detriment of enslaved Africans and their descendants.
What a sick thing to say…
When you care more about profits than people, that’s the kind of slavery apologist shit that you say… just disgusting…
“Students at Florida public schools will now learn that Black people benefitted from slavery because it taught them skills.”
Are these people fucking insane?
Conservatives are pure evil incarnate.
What!? There is something seriously wrong with this! Just don’t do business with Florida at all.
You seriously believe this story?
I checked the source document and it looks like an extremely comprehensive and fair overview of slavery.
Check it out for yourselves, the African American part is right at the beginning: https://www.fldoe.org/core/fileparse.php/20653/urlt/6-4.pdf
The offending part is on page 6Examine the various duties and trades performed by slaves (e.g., agricultural
work, painting, carpentry, tailoring, domestic service, blacksmithing,
transportation).
Clarification 1: Instruction includes how slaves developed skills which, in some instances, could be
applied for their personal benefit.Maybe looks bad on its own but looking at the whole document you can see how the framing in OP is ridiculous.
So I read the document, and I think it’s actually worse than what OP wrote. Looking through the curriculum, there’s a steady emphasis on African Americans as “patriots”
Identify African Americans who demonstrated heroism and patriotism (e.g.,Booker T. Washington, Jesse Owens, Tuskegee Airmen, Martin Luther King Jr., Rosa Parks, President…
And conveniently there’s no mention of how systemic racism and white supremacy still exist and oppress African Americans today. Garvey, etc. Are mentioned but conveniently in the past.
Which is what they want. Emphasize the model people and show that they can be patriots. Downplay what you don’t like. Maybe your definition of education is different but I don’t think it should be about saying we should all be good little flag salutors.
I agree that it’s rage bait, but you can’t trust Florida on this.
Btw the fact that America makes kids pledge an oath to a flag every morning is fucked up, just saying.
“And conveniently there’s no mention of how systemic racism and white supremacy still exist and oppress African Americans today.”
Because they shouldn’t teach fantasy in schools.
Yeah, from this excerpt, in no way is it saying that slavery was good because they learned skills that later beneficial to them.
the linked article is quite poorly written, but I also had to look at 4 different stories to find some details
When high school students learn about events such as the 1920 Ocoee massacre, the new rules require that instruction include “acts of violence perpetrated against and by African Americans.” The massacre is considered the deadliest Election Day violence in US history and, according to several histories of the incident, it started when Moses Norman, a prominent Black landowner in the Ocoee, Florida, community, attempted to cast his ballot and was turned away by White poll workers.
