Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-Fla.) defended a Florida curriculum that says slaves developed skills that could be applied to their personal benefit. Presidential candidate former Rep. Will Hurd (R-Texas) says on Meet the Press that’s part of an overall “trend.”
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Just because Black people "survived" slavery and are now flourishing (somewhat) does not mean they benefited from slavery. Jewish people own many of the charter schools, tech businesses, and theatres in the City that I live in. I've had the opportunity to work with Jewish people on school projects and they are wonderful, thoughtful, warm, kind people who make my City better. Because Jewish people know how to become wealthy, does that mean they benefited from the holocaust? Of course not. DeSantis is not well.
NO ONE says there was an upside to slavery. I don't know what your angle is, but that politically posturing pure slander, Will Turd.
Thank you, Will Hurd for speaking out against DeSantis taunting racist bigotry he's spewing.
Ron de Satan
Tim Scott is sick a lefty.
DeSantis doesn't like black people.
DeSantis does not care about the truth of America. I'm sure he was not taught American history in his home. He is Italian and his ancestors came here in the early 1900's. His family missed the majority of events that shaped America.
Because when I need new job skills? I sign up for SLAVERY!
Ron, you're a liar!
Somebody needs to look at the cover of the Mad Magazine and see who this reminds you of
And some of these slaves died with their “skills”. When we’re they free to use the benefits as a free person?!
What if we purposely mispronounced his name and called him Da Satan. This person will not ever be President. He is working with Black people every day. How must they feel?!
You better learn fast, and don't make any mistakes. Florida, where you belong to
More than a Work program. These students, better learn quickly.
To believe some people gotten fare in life to realize at some point they don't know much At all!!!
Narcissist there sooo funy YES!!!😂
blacks gotten skills through slavery OH I agree 💯 one big skill is Smelling BS more of this stuff please 🙈😎 next Blacks wr brought to earth by 👽s
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There is no upside to being someone else's property.
Blacks will be voting blue.
NBC news thinks you're Stupid. They keep trying to cover up all the Biden family corruption.
Imagine being packed like sardines with other humans for three months while you're shipped as cargo. And that was just the beginning
Tim Scott evidently thinks slavery was just about separating families. 😂
I welcome ANY person to debate this outrageous contention.
William B. Allen, a Black scholar and civil rights activist, helped write the curriculum. There are close to 200 examples in the curriculum that make reference to the horrors of slavery in great detail, and is indicative of the narrative direction of the course. If you take a tiny part of it and suggest that it represents the whole, then you are beyond saving and you deserve to live your life as an ignoramus.
There is simply no way of perusing this course and concluding that it “gaslights” people or whitewashes slavery. Among many, many other things, it includes sections on “the conditions for Africans during their passage to America”; “the living conditions of slaves in British North American colonies, the Caribbean, Central America and South America, including infant mortality rates”; “the harsh conditions and their consequences on British American plantations (e.g., undernourishment, climate conditions, infant and child mortality rates of the enslaved vs. the free)”; “the harsh conditions in the Caribbean plantations (i.e., poor nutrition, rigorous labor, disease)”; “how the South tried to prevent slaves from escaping and their efforts to end the Underground Railroad”; the “overwhelming death rates” caused by the practice; the many ways in which “Africans resisted slavery”; “the ramifications of prejudice, racism and stereotyping on individual freedoms”; and “the struggles faced by African American women in the 19th century as it relates to issues of suffrage, business and access to education.” Many of these modules apply to Florida specifically.
Who??? This guy has less than zero of a chance.. How can DeSantis be so tone deaf? Good God..
Boycott Florida.
Desantis has a mental condition to say slavery was beneficial to Black American 🇺🇸 slaves ! Desantis and his crew doesn’t know what they are talking about!, being a slave was not glorifying not one bit. Slaving another HUMAN BEING WAS WRONG ON EVERY LEVEL, and if Desantis can not understand or comes to grips with that hard cold evil fact than he is not fit to be President, because we need a President for the whole HUMAN RACE not just for one ethnic group.Please American 🇺🇸 people get out and vote to re- elect President Biden and Vice President Harris in 2024, they are trying to be President and Vice President for the HUMAN RACE. Trump and Desantis message is hatred and divide of the HUMAN RACE! ( UNITED WE STAND AND DIVIDED THIS COUNTRY WILL FALL)! I PROMISE YOU ✝️🙏💕
Tim Scott must take the lead over Donald Trump right now. And let's end Donald Trump's nonsense. Will hurd must endorse Tim Scott for president.
If they were slaves there was no benefit. Anything they learned benefited their owners. What.stupid idea. Its 2023. Come on people.
We should sell Ron DeSatan as a slave to learn some skills in being himan.
DeSantis is a waste of time. He’s not a leader.
Dasantis is a racist, the florida department of education are racist snd florida, yall need to stop coting for him!!
👂 Slavery was evil 👿 inhuman, immoral, etc DeSanti is evil 👿 and a 🤥 liar
How can DeSantis be so tone deaf? Good God.
Florida is out of control with taxes and
Insurance, ETC , Desantis is only for himself , and selling more dreams than disney world.