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Via Judd Legum:

BREAKING: #Florida just approved new Black history standards that includes noting enslaved people developed skills that “could be applied for their personal benefit”

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Rory
Rory
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The only thing we can do is NOT LISTEN TO IDIOTS!!

Imagine that though: Human beings were forced into slavery, and extremist, red idiots, consider it a time to learn development skills… These red, infidels are really struck on stupid…

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Rory
Rory
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Yes indeed…Those fools are really stuck on racism
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Rory
Rory
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I don’t know what’s worse: An idiot talking, or a good, intelligent person, listening…
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Lyle Solla-Yates
Lyle Solla-Yates
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speaking as someone who studied Black history in Florida schools in the 90s, the idea that they want to do an even worse job is a pretty remarkable notion
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Erin Conroy
Erin Conroy
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This is an argument that slaveholders (& other virulent racists) explicitly made *during slavery* in the US South.

Actually, Christian slavers banned teaching Af-Ams, so Northern Af-Ams had much higher literacy & trade skills.

Christian slavers & propagandists basically invented modern racism, arguing that Black people were inferior humans & wouldn't learn the most basic skills on their own initiative as human beings, & needed white slavers to "teach" them.
https://time.com/5171819/christianity-slavery-book-excerpt/

How Christian Slaveholders Used the Bible to Justify Slavery

American history's Christian slaveholders—and, if asked, most would have defined themselves as Christian—had two favorites texts.
Noel Rae (Time)
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M.S. Bellows, Jr.
M.S. Bellows, Jr.
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I wonder whether Florida public schools will teach that Sally Hemings, the enslaved teenager Thomas Jefferson forced to be his "mistress," was his dead wife's half-sister, because Jefferson's father-in-law had done the same thing to Hemings' mother.

I mean, it's actually true, so... Nah. I don't think DeSantis would admit to considering those "valuable skills."

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