Florida Education Board votes unanimously for K-12 to learn new "benefits" of slavery

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The Florida Board of Education approved a new curriculum for African American history on Wednesday, but not without pushback.

 

After more than an hour of public comment, with a majority of speakers opposed, the board voted unanimously to approve the social studies standards for African American history for kindergarten through 12th grades. Opponents say the curriculum leaves out Florida’s role in slavery and the oppression of African Americans, victim blames Black communities and uses outdated language.

 

In a letter to board member Ben Gibson, a group of 11 organizations, including the NAACP and the Florida Education Association, criticized the state for omitting or rewriting “key historical facts about the Black experience.” [...] X

 

[...] More than a dozen speakers at Wednesday’s board meeting opposed the changes, including state Sen. Geraldine Thompson (D), who helped pass a law in 2020 that requires schools to teach lessons about the Ocoee Massacre. The incident in 1920 began when several Black residents attempted to vote, and ended with as many as 60 people dead, making it the deadliest instance of Election Day violence in U.S. history.

 

Thompson said the new curriculum “suggests that the massacre was sparked by violence from African Americans. That’s blaming the victims. ” State Rep. Anna Eskamani (D) said she was concerned about inaccuracies in the new standards, including instructing that enslaved people “developed skills” that could be helpful. “That is inaccurate and a scary standard for us to establish,” she said. [...] X

 

 

[SuperCiC1]

The politicization of education will backfire spectacularly for Florida and any other state that tries this. Mark my words, people are FED UP with republicans trying to rewrite history.

[réveuse]

I wish me and my family weren't going to Florida for vacation...

[réveuse]

Florida is a piece of 💩

[Rev8]

Wow wtf

 

the audacity of this..

[loveisdead9582]

Wtf is this ****?

[Taylena]

Not them acting like slavery was like an unpaid internship. 

[MingYouToo]

6 minutes ago, Taylena said:

Not them acting like slavery was like an unpaid internship. 

Unpaid internship with a fat chance of lynching

[QueenBeyoncé]

wtf

[scenekiller]

Can Florida sink into the gulf of Mexico already

[Power love]

This is embarrassing. 

[SimpleKindofLife]

I hope all of my fellow people get out of that god awful state

[dabunique]

it jus keeps gettin worse here by da minute

 

when will my people rise up and do sumthin here

 

there is a special place in hell for these republicans

[dabunique]

Just now, SimpleKindofLife said:

I hope all of my fellow people get out of that god awful state

i refuse to leave it in da hands of these disgusting people, but i jus don't kno what to do 

[Sergi91]

2 hours ago, SuperCiC1 said:

The politicization of education will backfire spectacularly for Florida and any other state that tries this. Mark my words, people are FED UP with republicans trying to rewrite history.

But are they tho? They keep voting for clowns like DeSantis 

[fememeist]

Florida and its majority people keeping voting for gutter trash

[dabunique]

7 minutes ago, Sergi91 said:

But are they tho? They keep voting for clowns like DeSantis 

there is some major phuckery happening down here because there was no way dat da republicans had dat many votes

 

also da voting intimidation down here is thick as phuck 

 

and da Democrats see da state as a lost cause which sucks 

Edited July 20, 2023 by dabunique

[Gorjesspazze9]

[zach]

WHAT

[Chemist]

The only good thing about climate change is that it's going WIPE Florida out

[John Slayne]

no words... 

[Armani?]

Disgusting

[Armani?]

 

 

[Bethenny Frankel]

I will never step foot in that state again

[Sannie]

This is genuinely insane on another level. It would almost be better to just not teach slavery at all. This is literal whitewashing in an attempt to teach kids that black people simply never experiencing hardships or racism.