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Florida public schools will now teach students that slavery was just a kind of trade school that taught important and useful jobs skills to the less fortunate.
Florida's public schools will now teach students that some Black people benefited from slavery because it taught them useful skills, part of new African American history standards approved Wednesday that were blasted by a state teachers' union as a 'step backward.'
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,' according to a 216-page document about the state's 2023 standards in social studies, posted by the Florida Department of Education.Huh.
Maybe Florida will ask descendants for financial reparations for all that thoughtful education and training that so richly benefitted their ancestors.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/new-florida-s...
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<<Florida's public schools will now teach students that some Black people benefited from slavery because it taught them useful skills>>
Simple Republicans do love their racism...
"If you can convince the lowest white man he's better than the best colored man,
he won't notice you're picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he'll empty his pockets for you." ~Lyndon Baines Johnson
And that's your Republican Party of 2023: cynical racists picking the pockets of ignorant racists.
Don't forget to donate to the Trump campaign!
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Consumer confidence? Holding steady.
Gas prices? Holding steady.
Cholesterol counts? Holding steady.
Republican bigotry? Steady as she goes.
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They should just teach them the slave codes and where they came from. If you want to create a myth, teach them it was terrible to be a slave in the Caribbean and the South treated Slaves with dignity and respect in comparison.
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Florida public schools will now teach students that slavery was just a kind of trade school that taught important and useful jobs skills to the less fortunate.Complete lie. As in 100%, USDA Grade A BS.
Huh.
https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/kamala-harri...Kamala Harris Is Brazenly Lying about Florida's Slavery Curriculumliberals. They just make it up as they go along.
This is a brazen lie. It's an astonishing lie. It's an evil lie. It is so untrue ' so deliberately and cynically misleading ' that, in a sensible political culture, Harris would be obligated to issue an apology. Instead, NBC confirms that she will repeat the lie today during a speech in Jacksonville.
I have been trying to work out how best to illustrate the sheer scale of Harris's falsehood, and I've come to the conclusion that the only way to achieve it is to list in one place all the relevant parts of the course about which she is complaining. So, below, I have copied and pasted every single reference to slavery, slaves, abolitionism, civil rights, and African Americans that is in the document. For those interested, the full curriculum (along with the curriculum for the teaching of the Holocaust) is here.When it comes to getting and/or keeping power, democrat politicians will literally do and say anything.
There's exactly 1 piece out of 190-something parts:
Instruction includes how slaves developed skills which, in some instances, could be applied for their personal benefit.
...but:
The list is extremely long. That's because, pace Harris, there's a lot in there. If you are able to read it and conclude that the single reference to slaves developing skills (which I've bolded) is indicative of the narrative direction of the course, rather than a tiny (and correct) part of it, then you are beyond saving and you deserve to live your life as an ignoramus.And there you have it, the one line that explains Kamala Harris.
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Dope1: Complete lie. As in 100%, USDA Grade A BS.
Quoting from your link, here is exactly what vice president Harris said:
HARRIS: 'Just yesterday in the state of Florida, they decided middle school students will be taught that enslaved people benefited from slavery,' she said at a convention for the traditionally Black sorority Delta Sigma Theta Inc. 'They insult us in an attempt to gaslight us, and we will not stand for it.'
Again, quoting from your link, here is exactly what the Florida middle school curriculum teaches:
Instruction includes how slaves developed skills which, in some instances, could be applied for their personal benefit.
So Harris was telling the truth and the National Review is wrong.
Harris never claimed that every line of every lesson of the new curriculum taught Floridian middle schoolers that enslaved people benefited from slavery.
In fact, Harris was 100% correct.
And why are you conflating my words with the vice president's, implying she said what I glibly wrote in a separate post days ago when I brought Florida's new curriculum to this board's attention?
I even quoted the words exactly in an excerpt from the article: "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,' according to a 216-page document about the state's 2023 standards in social studies, posted by the Florida Department of Education."
I guess they didn't teach hyperbole where you went to school.
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HARRIS: 'Just yesterday in the state of Florida, they decided middle school students will be taught that enslaved people benefited from slavery,' she said at a convention for the traditionally Black sorority Delta Sigma Theta Inc. 'They insult us in an attempt to gaslight us, and we will not stand for it.'
And I'll repeat what Charles C.W. Cooke said, because it negates any mendacious points that were being attempted:
This is a brazen lie. It's an astonishing lie. It's an evil lie. It is so untrue ' so deliberately and cynically misleading ' that, in a sensible political culture, Harris would be obligated to issue an apology. Instead, NBC confirms that she will repeat the lie today during a speech in Jacksonville.
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The list is extremely long. That's because, pace Harris, there's a lot in there. If you are able to read it and conclude that the single reference to slaves developing skills (which I've bolded) is indicative of the narrative direction of the course, rather than a tiny (and correct) part of it, then you are beyond saving and you deserve to live your life as an ignoramus.
