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Whipping scars of a former Mississippi slave, US Civil War, 1863 (media.kbin.social)

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[-] be_excellent_to_each_other@kbin.social 70 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

It's OK, he probably learned some quality life skills from the experience. /s

The Florida State Board of Education’s new standards includes controversial language about how “slaves developed skills which, in some instances, could be applied for their personal benefit,”

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/new-florida-standards-teach-black-people-benefited-slavery-taught-usef-rcna95418

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis is intensifying his efforts to de-emphasize racism in his state’s public school curriculum by arguing that some Black people benefited from being enslaved and defending his state’s new African American history standards that civil rights leaders and scholars say misrepresents centuries of U.S. reality.

“They’re probably going to show that some of the folks that eventually parlayed, you know, being a blacksmith into doing things later in life,” DeSantis said on Friday

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/07/22/desantis-slavery-curriculum/