FL schools to teach that "Blacks benefited from slavery" and "massacres had reasons"

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Anonymous wrote:African-Americans are the most forgiving and resilient people on the planet. All they want is equality and acknowledgment of their history and the South can't even do that.

Do you expect the people of DC to apologize for DC's history of slavery?

Are the people of DC saying that there were benefits bestowed on some of the slaves by the forced acquisition of skills?

No. But neither are the people of any state but Florida. Why do people in South Carolina owe you an apology?

IF they are saying that there were benefits to slavery for the slaves, I think they need to correct that.

What I'm responding to is the tsk-tsk about why people who live in the south today haven't apologized about slavery. I'm confused about why we're giving DC and Maryland a pass. I am also confused about why if you live in the south, you're more responsible for this historic injustice than anyone else in the US. I'm not from the south, but I live in the south now. A year ago I didn't owe you an apology, but now I do. Make this make sense.

DP. As someone who has lived in the South, the West, and now the Mid-Atlantic, which is a bit Northern and a bit Southern, I think these posters are just very sheltered. And have not seen very much of this big beautiful country.

+1 and likely many of them very young and haven't studied the part about history where cotton grown in the south was sent for manufacturing purposes, which benefited greatly the manufacturers, their homes, universities, and lifestyles.

Speak for your own state. We were absolutely taught about the northern states role in perpetuating slavery. And were never thought that that depraved system was somehow beneficial to some of the slaves.

PP here. I was never taught this line of thinking either. I still say that many DCUM posters' comments reflect their ignorance on the subject of the role of the inhabitants of northern states. Southern states had to sell their cotton somewhere for the system to even exist.

I have not read a single post claiming the north was not complicit or that any students are being taught that the north was not part of this system.

They think today's southerners should bear the shame of slavery, though. That kind of implies that they either don't know or don't care about the norths role.

They want to correct the curriculum not have "today's southerners ..... bear the shame of slavery".

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Anonymous wrote:I was actually given the sort of education about slavery that the left is advocating for. And as a result, I didn't have a very rich or detailed understanding of what slavery was actually like, and why it was so difficult to reverse. I learned these things from black historians as an adult, and it sparked a lot of interest in black history that I didn't previously have.

I don't think that the term "benefit" was the best word for what they were trying to communicate, but I also think that having a kind of "bare essentials" understanding of slaves as being completely beholden to their owners, and lacking in a life or community outside of that, didn't help me understand or empathize with slaves. These were people with skills, lives, even some choices and complicated relationships. So I know there is a big push on the left to strip out all context and just let people know what was good and what was bad, but I think that will have the opposite effect.

my goodness. It sound like you are talking about African American studies or some woke nonsense like that.

Well, yes, what is being critized in this thread is an African American studies course that Florida developed. So yes, that's precisely what I'm advocating for and what the left is railing against.