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  • Middle school students in Florida will soon be taught

    From JAB@21:1/5 to All on Thu Jul 20 12:41:32 2023
    Middle school students in Florida will soon be taught that slavery
    gave Black people a "personal benefit" because they "developed
    skills."

    https://twitter.com/thedailybeast/status/1682007539628625920

    Like how was this established? Where's the factual information to
    support this bullshit?

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  • From JAB@21:1/5 to All on Sat Jul 22 06:31:48 2023
    DeSantis Faces Swell of Criticism Over Florida's New Standards for
    Black History


    MSNBC
    Harris rips Florida going soft on slavery; DeSantis seeks GOP favor,
    attacks black history


    FOX 26 Houston
    Slavery to be taught as 'benefit' to Black people in Florida schools

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  • From JAB@21:1/5 to All on Sat Jul 22 07:00:12 2023
    Florida history lesson: Slavery as an unpaid internship? | Editorial

    Here is why Florida's new guidelines for teaching African American
    history need some work.

    https://www.tampabay.com/opinion/2023/07/21/florida-history-lesson-slavery-an-unpaid-internship-editorial/

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  • From JAB@21:1/5 to All on Sat Jul 22 11:52:12 2023
    Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis fires back at Kamala Harris over Black
    history standards
    ===============

    I suspect DeSantis/GOP are doing political theater on this topic to
    appease their sucker/losers.

    ========
    DeSantis studied history at Yale University.
    After Yale, he taught history and coached for a year at Darlington
    School in Georgia.
    Wiki
    =======================

    He knows what happened historically....so he lies, lies, and lies.

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  • From JAB@21:1/5 to All on Sun Jul 23 13:59:21 2023
    Christie says DeSantis has only himself to blame for Florida education controversy


    ========
    DeSantis studied history at Yale University.
    After Yale, he taught history and coached for a year at Darlington
    School in Georgia.
    Wiki
    =======================

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  • From Retrograde@21:1/5 to JAB on Thu Jul 27 20:27:50 2023
    On Thu, 20 Jul 2023 12:41:32 -0500
    JAB <here@is.invalid> wrote:

    Middle school students in Florida will soon be taught that slavery
    gave Black people a "personal benefit" because they "developed
    skills."


    I am fully in favor of Floridian elected officials demonstrating some
    of these skills personally, like getting horse whipped until their skin
    splits, having their kids taken from them, being forced to work until
    they drop, etc.

    In fact, I'd like to see Meatball Ron get horsewhipped right now. I
    should think he'd be grateful for this new skill he's being taught ... bleeding.

    Asswipe.

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  • From JAB@21:1/5 to All on Fri Jul 28 07:22:09 2023
    On Thu, 27 Jul 2023 20:27:50 -0400, Retrograde <fungus@amongus.com>
    wrote:

    Middle school students in Florida will soon be taught that slavery
    gave Black people a "personal benefit" because they "developed
    skills."


    I am fully in favor


    I suspect some conservative group came up with this twisted thought process....for suckers and losers to suck up and vote Republican.

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  • From JAB@21:1/5 to All on Sun Jul 30 12:47:07 2023
    On Thu, 27 Jul 2023 20:27:50 -0400, Retrograde <fungus@amongus.com>
    wrote:

    gave Black people a "personal benefit" because they "developed
    skills."


    I am fully in favor of Floridian elected officials demonstrating some
    of these skills personally,

    RE: "personal benefit"

    Abstract BS...well yes, them white plantation owners taught them how
    to do the work they required, and when slavery ended, most blacks had
    these "skills" and continued to be farm labors.

    What's missing here is if blacks were not imported/enslaved, what
    skills did they learn in their homeland, as compared to in US.

    Few blacks benefited in white man's capitalist society. During
    slavery era, I doubt if any slave benefited economy. After
    Emancipation Proclamation, I'm sure some (i.e., very few) could
    support themselves without being a farm labor, but were their skills
    directly related to farm labor work (white man's requirements)?

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  • From Michael Trew@21:1/5 to JAB on Tue Aug 1 00:38:46 2023
    On 7/30/2023 1:47 PM, JAB wrote:

    Abstract BS...well yes, them white plantation owners taught them how
    to do the work they required, and when slavery ended, most blacks had
    these "skills" and continued to be farm labors.

    What's missing here is if blacks were not imported/enslaved, what
    skills did they learn in their homeland, as compared to in US.

    It's a shame that no one is pointing a finger at *their own people* who
    sold them off into slavery years ago.

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  • From JAB@21:1/5 to michael.trew@att.net on Tue Aug 1 07:42:28 2023
    On Tue, 01 Aug 2023 00:38:46 -0400, Michael Trew
    <michael.trew@att.net> wrote:

    It's a shame that no one is pointing a finger at *their own people* who
    sold them off into slavery years ago.

    Slave market had been around a long time before slave trade to US


    In the early 18th century, the Crimean Khanate maintained a massive
    slave trade with the Ottoman Empire and the Middle East, exporting
    about 2 million slaves from Russia and Poland-Lithuania over the
    period 1500-1700.[2] Caffa (modern Feodosia) became one of the
    best-known and significant trading ports and slave markets.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slave_market

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