As a FL resident, I love every single bit of DeSantis's fall. He's a genuinely terrible human being and has embraced being terrible so he deserves every bit of this
Fellow Floridian, I stand with you in solidarity and with a bag of popcorn 🍿. May he and his administration go down in flames ruining this once great state 🔥
I grew up in Florida, and I’m white. We learned about slavery when I was in school. Yes it was uncomfortable and heartbreaking, but the truth is uncomfortable. It is necessary to learn from the ugliness of our past. It strikes me that DeSantis is essentially trying to spin slavery as “not that bad”, or god forbid, attempting to justify it as a practice. Absolutely despicable.
Agreed. On top learning about Slavery, in my high school history class we also learned about how the Irish, Polish, and other foreign immigrants were treated in NYC back in the early 1800's (hint: they were treated and called something akin to 'trash'). So glad I had a good history teacher that was allowed to cover many different angles and include as many races of people as possible. It showed how much we are all alike, not how we're different.
As a middle class white kid, I grew up learning about MLK, the Civil Rights movement, Jim Crow laws, etc... I never felt uncomfortable or guilty. I felt only disgust and anger at the way people had been treated.
That is why they don’t want it to be taught. This generation of kids are much more diverse and would rather not repeat it. That is why they want to change the age of voting so young 18 years can’t vote because most won’t vote repub.
As a Teacher, I would not want to work in an environment where I am constantly being targeted or the scape goat for politicians and intolerant parents who are to fragile to learn anything.
He Takes No Responsibility. You know what? He majored in History at Yale! He knows better! He could in a minute make a phone call and reverse this course. Instead he washes his hands.
Honestly I don't know why we have AP African-American Studies. That entire class should just be made part of AP World History and AP US History, which should be totally inclusive to the point you'd be nuts to want to have race-specific or gender-specific studies.
As a former white kid and now white adult, knowing what slavery truly was never made me ashamed of myself being white. It drove me to watch the way I think, what I do, and how I treat people, Slavery is a dusgusting truth of this country, and to pretend it didn't happen makes them sad and pathetic. Be Better Than We Have Ever Been, Learn from the Past to keep the attrocities committed from ever happening again!
The ones that have that guilt do hold those racists beliefs and think people of color are inferior but they don't say it out loud. That's why they feel like when racists get attacked they get attacked. It's because deep down they have those beliefs no matter how much they verbalize that they don't.
Right?? What I learned from history lessons about slavery and the civil rights movement is that it's wrong to treat people as unequal based on things like the color of their skin... which is probably exactly what DeSantis is afraid of kids learning.
Being white, growing up, learning about US history in school, the horrific and unjust treatment of minorities did sicken me, angered me, and made me determined to continue to fight injustice and discrimination into my adulthood. I’m still learning.
It was rare for any teacher in any state to teach the whole ugly truth about slavery when I was growing up. You had to go to college for that, and even then only if you happened to take the right course or attend the right college. All they taught us was Columbus discovered America and the history of Europe. The history taught at my high school was trash. So lifelong learning is something that I value. Thank goodness my kids learned more than I did (and that they didn't go to school in Florida).
@@organichotdog3807 Blame the school board your parents elected. The Articles of Confederation came so close to banning slavery and it was all about state's rights. The constitutional convention made it a point to keep it out to ensure ratification. Learned that in my high school in Illinois.
I ended up in FL 8 years ago so I’m very familiar with DeSantis unfortunately. He will never admit any wrongdoing or bad decisions. It’s always someone else’s fault. He’s a cowardly little punk. I’m 54 and what I wasn’t taught in school about the atrocities of slavery - which was a lot - I read about and learned on my own & from friends. It never made me hate myself or hate the country. It made me hate what has happened and what people allowed, and still allow, in society. And it makes me want to do whatever I can to contribute to a better society. It’s sad that DeSantis, his fans & people like him have never actually thought about what it would be like to be OWNED by another person. Zero empathy. There’s something very wrong and very dangerous about not being capable of putting yourself in someone else’s shoes.
I’m just now starting to read more on our history- I never realized how lacking my Georgian education was! The sad thing is my (white) AP history teacher did try to teach us that slavery “wasn’t that bad.” I hope this legislation forces more schools to look into what the heck is being taught to kids about history
Spoken like a human being obviously you are a critical thinker truth along with facts wer in your words but most of all a god-given conscience that can discern good from evil and old preacher full of wisdom once said talk is cheap it cost money to buy land he simply met we can talk all we want but our words will expose us for who we really are it's also a proven fact people will tell you who they really are by their whether they be good or evil they always produce actions
This is what DeSantis would call “being woke”. Politicians like him, Cruz, MTG, Boebert, etc have absolutely nothing of value to say and absolutely no idea how to run a country so they’ll just keep spreading fear of “them” because that’s the only way they’ll ever get what they truly want, power. “Them” literally being “anyone even remotely different to you”.
I'm a Floridian. I NEVER voted for DeSatan. I learned about slavery in school. It was sad and horrible but I didn't feel guilty cause I was never a slave owner. If DeSatan can't deal with the issue of slavery then that's HIS problem! The rest of us want the TRUTH to be taught in schools! Never forget....NEVER relive! Vote BLUE!
i agree with you plus we can just learn alot from our neighbor or co-workers. Which is why america needs to be more diverse in every neighborhood and every work place.
I also felt sad and horrified and as a former teacher when books told of bad acts done to black and brown people I would stop…and try to explain how that happened long ago and it was wrong! Now, some still live where awful things happen but it’s now against the law! Etc
I went to a Christian conservative high school in the early 90s and even then, we learned that slavery was an atrocity perpetuated by evil on a people stolen from their homeland or forced birth by their "masters." I am a descendant of a Native slave who was sold to someone in Alabama and I can tell you slavery was not a job opportunity. We live in a country built on genocide and enslavement and we need to teach our children the truth.
For sure. Those who talk about the "skills" that enslaved people picked up neglect to acknowledge the skills that they would've been able to learn had they not been trapped in such a violent, dehumanizing system.
not just stolen from their homeland but enslaved first by africans and imprisoned before being sold. this went on even after the british outlawed slavery. the kidnapping of black men or prisoners of war in african conflicts by fellow african men allowed for the african slave trade to continue in other parts of the world (ie - south america). it's terrible what black kings, warlords and others did to other black men.
The GOP party, should not be represented by an elephant. This is far to misleading. The animal being far more indicative as suitably representing their cowardly exhibitions, would be the Noble Osterich ! As when confronted with facts & truth, efficaciously buries its head in the sand, for hours, days, even months on end ! As Pretending & Deluding itself such informations simply don't exist. And when such informations become overwhelmingly irrefutable, can speed off at incredible breakneck speeds of up to 60 mph. thus fleeing & avoiding any oppositional facts & truths. And as a last resort when corralled, can viciously peck, voraciously kick & savagely claw its opponent's ! What a truly Noble Bird !
His vendetta against African Americans has been laid bare for the entire country to see, and he has no defense, this isn’t Florida, it’s the national stage, and this essentially makes him unelectable. He can’t run from this, it’s a law he rubber stamped, and gloated about, he owns it.
Well, there might be "SOME" who profited from it, but that's like saying that the jews which survived the Holocaust, profited from getting stronger through the experience. There is no real both-siding on some issues. Holocaust, slavery, killing of u.s. natives... on stuff like that just accept the L and shut up.
@@chonqmonk Why do you chime in? You are saying the store was robbed but it wasn't me. Nobody said it was you. But if you commented like that you must be guilty. Therefore, you must have had the same mentality and now you are regretful. Your "guilt reared it's ugly head"
Learning about slavery isn't just uncomfortable for White students to hear, Black students are uncomfortable and hurt. Everyone should feel awful about slavery because it was wrong and unjust but it happened. We must learn from our mistakes and own it.
I learned about slavery in public schools. It did not give me PTSD or a feeling of guilt. If you eliminate all history that is uncomfortable then history is history. WW2?. Colonization of America and its impact on native Americans?
@@soulanstreets I will not quibble over how many verses referred to slavery, but I will say that the old testament did warn against abuse of slaves, which there, were spoils of war, but the Jewish law had the Jubilee rule: after seven years, all debts cancelled. All slaves got freed. That is where the 7-year indenture rule of England and the American colonies originated. And of course, while Paul at one point spoke of slaves being obedient, he later said, there is neither slave nor free, all being equal in Christ. Desantis is a coward demanding something and then not saying he commanded it. Desantis is also the worst kind of liar. First, he says wokeness is wrong, critical race theory is wrong, the insistence that Black people were denied rights, denied recognition for achievements, denied opportunities. He wanted no instruction about great things that had been suppressed. Then, he turned right around, to have Black achievements recognized, only as a pathway to saying whites made it possible. That is classic plantation mentality. Tell a truth just to tell a big lie. That is just like the denial of CRT. These same bigots will say Black people are racist, "trying to replace whites _in spots whites always held."_ Notice how, in their complaint, they actually _admit_ CRT. A bigot is a bigot because he is selfish, ignorant, and dishonest. What is worse, Desantis is of Italian descent, and apparently ignored the history where Italians were not regarded as real whites or real Americans. They got hurt by the D word, as Black people got hurt by the N word. Desantis has a name meaning "from the blessed" but he apparently has rejected that, just like the one whose name meant "bearer of light" chose the opposite.
@@soulanstreets please don't lie and act like people don't use the Bible to justify just about anything and they find in makeup things in there that's what happens and you know that
All Black people thought we were finally going to be acknowledged as human beings, we were all wrong. It only get worse as we made stripes in education, became of the political arena, and then had a black president. these white people were saying behind the scenes, We can’t have these Black people in charge of anything, so now here we are. Racism is boiling over.
Same here! What happened to the "Great Melting Pot" I was taught about in grammar school? Apparently that's dead and gone, at least according to republicans!
Let’s Not Get It Twisted Out Here...They didn't steal slaves. They stole scientists, doctors, architects, teachers, entrepreneurs, astronomers, fathers, mothers, sons, daughters, etc. and made them slaves. Sincerely, Your Ancestors."-Javan Dradshaw
The thing is a lot of slaves already had the skills when they got here and the ones who were born here acquired the skills from other slaves. They were inventing new ways to do the work too. The things they invented weren’t even credited to them.
As a parent, if the thought of enslaving another human being DIDN'T make my children feel not only uncomfortable but horrified, I'd know I had way bigger problems than what was being taught in school.
Conservatives have it down, you just have to start by teaching your kids how to dehumanize everyone who doesn't look or act like them. The rest is just practice.
That's so true. The whole point of school should be to give the kids information that makes them THINK. They should be uncomfortable sometimes. They should be questioning what we've done that was right or wrong. They should be learning to recognize unintended consequences of well meaning decisions. Isn't it funny how people (mostly Republicans) like to call kids these days "snowflakes" and claim that all they want is "safe spaces", but also don't want to teach them things that may hurt their feelings?
@@pirtatejoe Because it’s really not about the kids. It’s about themselves. If their kids learn too much, they may actually see the racism in their own parents and be ashamed of them. For republicans, it’s ALWAYS about themselves.
Lol cool, as a former Republican I love all these businesses tycoons running for office! 2016 showed how much republicans and democrats in office actually are friends and work together to stay in power. That’s why republicans and democrats tried to team up against Trump lol so yah now I hate republicans and democrats and I don’t trust either of you😂
This actually brings tears to my eyes. My grandmother was the first black women at her university in Kentucky. She had to pick up food from the back of restaurants while her friends could go inside. She experienced Jim Crow. Slavery, Jim Crow, Red Lining still impacts black communities. After emancipation a bunch of laws were put in to effect such as loitering because of the clause that prisoners can be used for slave labor. That clause still exists. I love my country. I have faith in the people white, brown, black, blue but, my heart is heavy today knowing that young people are being learning this. It’s like spitting in the face of the black community. It’s a new low. Not to mention slavery was already being taught in a way that didn’t allow for nuance, healing and deep conversation
Red lining has had a MASSIVE impact on black Americans! The average white families median wealth is $140,000. For blacks it’s $3,600! This is in large part due to red lining!
I can only imagine how upsetting and infuriating this is for the Black community. My father was in Japanese-occupied Philippines and my in-law grandparents experienced all the troubles with reservations and Indian schools. In the 80s, I was taught Japanese internment camps were good, but I knew they were not, and educated myself. So between me and our family, my children learned about these types of things before kindergarten, and they have much more empathy and a better moral compass than their peers. It's truly upsetting the truth and the victims of these atrocities are being spun into a "good thing." The truth is the good thing!
As a white female I can’t imagine how you must feel. I’m ashamed that this is happening. I have a coworker who shared her experiences being a black female growing up in my town. It was shocking and I’m glad she told me. How else are we to understand someone as a person and live together in society without having some understanding of their life experiences and how they aren’t the same as mine? I never had a woman hide her purse if I’m standing in the same line. I never had security follow me in a high end store. These experiences need to be shared. Black people have a right to be heard, and the descendants of those who were enslaved deserve to have Justice. (((Hugs)))
You are playing right into it. You say you're ashamed because of your race. Either you think that race has nothing to do with a person's character or you don't.
Fired by the voters? DeSantis is a white supr*macist who was voted into office by other white s*premacist.. The racists and bigots have the greater numbers in that [red] state and most other highly populated red states like Texas. Word.
He can't. This is in response to the bill he signed last year about not teaching subjects that make students uncomfortable because of their race. He'd have to repeal that decision and his whole brand is "never back down". He's afraid his supporters will see him as weak if he reverses that decision, so instead Florida's children will suffer.
@@elliotgillum If you're talking about the pandemic, the point isn't where it came from. The whole world knew where it started. The point is that his attitude was, I didn't do it, why should I be stuck with the job to fix it? And when he found out it hurt NY and California first, he actually went another step to hinder the distribution of PPEs. Any other president would've taken the opportunity to unite the people and do something constructive to save lives. For him, the bar was so low. If he'd have stopped talking and let other people do the work, he'd have been re-elected easily. But he couldn't even do that.
@@elliotgillum it doesn't matter where it came from, the important part was to address it properly and try to protect the population. He instead lied and actively worked against everyone's safety. He is quite seriously responsible for hundreds of thousands of deaths. Ironically, the likely majority of those deaths were from his own rabid fanbase.
So he as the governor of FL can take action against mask mandates in FL schools by threatening to sue any FL counties who mandated masks during the pandemic, but a new curriculum giving credit to slavery for teaching skills 🤔 His hands are tied??
The list of 16 examples they gave of slaves benefiting from slavery, more than half had been born free after the civil war, one name listed was George Washington’s white sister! Another name was someone who had written a book about being a slave. Since it was illegal for slaves to learn to read and write, that skill was definitely not a skill learned from slavery. The “scholars” claims are ludicrous. And let’s not forget all the millions of people who were enslaved.
Using the hillsdale college curriculum is not scholarship. It is an agenda with the ultimate goal of getting all the taxpayer education money into churches or into the hands of "for-profit" grifters. Betsy DeVos, the WORST education secretary of all time, had this as her agenda (along with making college campuses safe for rapists) but was far too inept to get anything done.
The Republican party is a religious cult. All he has to do is parrot the typical Biden is terrible talking points, and he won't lose much Republican support.
I’m a 67 year old white guy and this is one of the reasons I moved out of Florida these people are absolutely out-of-control. They want to move the country back 50 years tell women what to do vote Democratic especially young people if you don’t vote this is what you’re gonna get.
Well said Richard. Actually some in the far right whether it's Desantis, Reeves in Mississippi, Sanders, Jr. in AK(sorry she is only Governor because of her Dad's name) and Loudmouth MTG are part of that Gen X/Millennial era born MAGA leaders trying to play a dangerous game of chicken. These MAGA's actually are trying to bring America back beyond even before the 1960's to appeal to at most currently 10-20 Million Voters in the country who are against being in the 21st century. With trying to either downplay or even not mention, the real story of slavery in the first 90 years of US history being a big part of it. Meaning they don't like Black and Other Peoples of Color, the Disabled, anyone not born in America especially those from Latin America and Africa, the LGBQT community, and those with college degrees. In other words, anyone that is NOT A White man. Yet these so called political leaders on the MAGA side such as Ron and Donald only want to be with the top 000.1% of Billionaires in their gated communities.
Alot of snow birds ( canadains ) are thinking of moving out of Florida to West Arizona next winter. This man isn't president material , he's a joke. Is he going to say that if he becomes president. Doesn't the buck stops with him.
I am 75 and a black person. I remember what my mom and others went through just to get the benefits. The recognition that we have yes and I agree vote blue💙the save your freedom and your rights that have been gained and hope to gain more..
When I was learning about slavery as a white kid I never felt uncomfortable, just sad. Thankfully I had a teacher who also taught compassion. She said “ These things did happen, but we can keep it from happening again” if she was still a teacher now she probably would have gotten fired in Florida.
Unfortunately sadly, nonetheless you had a good teacher 💯. I’m a Floridian college history student rn & I wonder if I’ll have to move to another state to teach the truth despite being born & raised here
@saramill2097 When was it, it suppose to teach the history of slavery in the US in the 17th century up to where it is oppressed do not compare it with the crimes of the Black American in the 21st Century, where slavery has changed, it supposed to teach the real cause of slavery, not teach about how slavery helped the oppressed, it's just ridiculous, if you're a Conservative, I understand your illogical mind...
@saramill2097 Did Asians even exist in the slavery of the African American in the 17th Century, use your common sense, did they join the Civil War, fighting for the 14th Amendment, the answer is "No", study the reality of slavery in the US
By now everything about this subject is supposed to be clear. Why do they keep denying what happened to the people of African descent???? They suffered a lot of terrible things.
Desantis is just now learning that Florida is an outlier, that his brand of racism doesn't fly in the rest of this country. An about face now isn't going to do him any good, we've all seen who he really is. My vote will go to a sane person, President Biden.
I didn't do it but highly educated people I put on that board did it based on factual material. I didn't light the match, but just threw the gas on the material. As an older white guy I can see with his anti woke mentality that he is a racist. The fight he took on Disney was flat out wrong. If people didn't like what Disney did they could vote with their pocketbooks but getting the government involved was wrong. Using our tax dollars to pick up migrants from Tx on a chartered flights to send them to NYC was a publicity stunt using our tax dollars. The bill that was bipartisan to fix the border Ron and republicans vetoed as it wasn't going to make Republicans look good to pass by Democrats. Immigration is the big platform of this party. No way they would let that pass and hurt their MAGA dictator.
@@dave655467Obama is a black man. Trump isn't supposed to be orange. The right is so stupid. Now I see why they elect stupid politicians. Your a right wing scholar aren't you. 😂😂
I feel for you. You’re surrounded by some angry white people. I don’t think he’s going to last much longer, a lot of people in Florida feel just like you.
I 'am 56 years old and didn't learn of the Tulsa race riot, until I seen it on HBO's the Watchmen. That's a disgrace to this country not to teach that because of the saying. ‘Those who do not learn history are doomed to repeat it.’
It’s still happening as we speak sadly. There’s still Americans who will vote for Trump regardless what facts you throw at them. Get the rest of sane Americans to vote at every turn for BLUE for the next decade.
There are so many more that blacks built that were likewise destroyed by white racist. Being a black person myself, I never knew of the horrible atrocities that happened to my people. They did this to my people and wonder why we are the way that we are. They’ve done it.
yup Since I learned about it, I've bought two books. One had to do exclusively about Tulsa, the other about the sheer volume of attacks on the black populace all throughout the year of 1919.
So you're old enough to remember that time republicans had a kk klan leader run in their primary 🤔 Remember how republicans didn't care or reexamine why they attract klansman? That same klansman endorsed tump.
It is really shameful and ridiculous to see just how ignorant people like you can be to where the media and HBO are where you can learn about the history of your own country!! Wow...I am amazed that HBO is your source.....what kind of secluded cave do you live in!!
EVERY reporter should FORCE him to name the TOP THREE benefits of being a slave - until he has to admit there are NONE. It's HIS policy. HE should be made to defend it.
1- You are fed. 2- You sleep with a roof over your head. 3- You feel some satisfaction for completing tasks. Its not much, and the cons certainly don't outweigh the benefits, but a case could be made that some slaves were better off than a person living in a tent on the streets of Los Angeles is today.
@@Sndyj457 it's not really. it is something that manifested out of it. genetic drift certainly did occur. I would suspect that isolated estates would have select men breeding with women. there was selective breeding back then. it's not a quantum leap to imagine it as a precipitating event (from people who largely were farmers in many circumstances). of course, you'll likely turn it into something out of a righteous and indignant angle. you clearly are morally superior to everyone.
@@FlyingKoreanMinja They don’t consider her a republican anymore after going against Trump. Even though she’s about right wing conservative as it gets.
Absolutely not, I also didn't expect my party, which includes the large hispanic community of South Florida, to vote for a guy just because of his last name, but they did. Now, what's your point, dear? P.S. unfortunately, I'm from planet Earth and yourself?
When I was a Freshman I. High school, there was a class called Minorities in America. It how sky opened my eyes, to how so many before us were mistreated. Being a granddaughter of a full blooded Cherokee, the lessons I learned were heartbreaking . It was hard to hear all about slavery, but I’m glad I took the class because it opened my eyes to know life was not perfect. I think we need to continue to teach all history, we have come a long ways but still have so much more to do. It is heartbreaking and now our world is in such a disarray, no ethics or morals . 😢😢😢💔💔💔🙏🙏🙏🙏
I am Caucasian, and grew up learning all about history of the USA.. and heard and watched some of the heinous things to those who were coloured , that include murder hangings, in full view of all to see on the news. NOT ONCE OVER MY 7O ++ yrs did I ever feel uncomfortable about learning truth, rather, what I felt was it was time to make changes in how the world treated people.... I was brought up to see people has humans, not as colours or them. I was glad when they took religion out of the schools (most religions profess to teach love and respect, yet propagate hate against "others" who are not of their faith, ..... When the schools removed religion, they continued to teach humanity,decency and equality,for all Which I do believe is a much better way. 🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦 I'm amazed that America still hasn't learned this.
Religion the so-called Christian religion is at the root of racism, fascism, authoritarianism, and any other ism. The Christian religion has a horrible background. It does not embrace the teachings of Christ, which is “God is LOVE” and loving your neighbor as yourself and love works no ill to his fellow man.
Caucassian? So, you're an asian?. Because you might want to check where mount caucassus located. Dont want to use that snake-oil salesman loon from 18th century, no?
Well 🇨🇦 Helped 🇬🇧 The whole reason the USA had slavery in the first place was because the British brought them here before we were a free country the only difference is Americans aren’t into the king and queen. The problem of slavery in the United States is 100% Englands fault. As soon as we became independent from England we fought a few more wars to end the Atlantic slave trade and finally end slavery in the south. When we sent our sailors to the Barbary coast to force the slave catchers into closing up shop in 1801 the English decided to supply the barbary pirates with weapons to fight against the abolition of the Atlantic slave trade. The coalition of USA Sweden and Sicily ended up bringing down the Atlantic slave trade with the help of greek mercenaries that were former barbary slaves themselves. The moral of the story is slavery in the United States is 100% 🇬🇧 fault historically speaking had we not gained our independence there would probably still be slavery here.
I think it might be more true that teaching accurately about slavery makes southern racists feel uncomfortable. And yes I realize that not all Southerners are racist.
Most of the Repug base is all in on fascism....seeing democracy as an inconvenience in the rear view mirror. Expect many Repug candidates in 24 to openly seek help from the Kremlin.
That's why I no longer tolerate Republicans in my life. I don't. At work I fire them. At home, they're not welcome (including family). To me - in 2023 - politics is about morals and ethics. Republicans have none of these things. After January 6th..... they're done in my world.
Desantis should not be in ANY leadership role. Vote him out. Florida is in terrible shape. Investigate prosecute convict and jail Desantis for human trafficking and miappropriantion of funds for the people of Florida
We were skilled human beings before slavery. If anything, America strove to diminish any and all skills that didn't directly support slave owners' agendas.
The Black slaves built and operated the Kentucky and Tennessee whiskeys! Heck, they built and operated most everything! The White immigrants were not the skilled labor in America, in those days! Did you know they even built the White House? When bigots try to change the narrative of History, we research and find out even more Contributions from Black people!
The skills at farming crops with which Americans and Europeans were unfamiliar (rice, cotton, varieties of peas that grow in the heat, etc.) were a major reason why people from West Africa in particular were brought to the US. People in places like Senegal had been working with these crops already and knew how to take care of them. The slaves who were originally stolen already had skills; and you're exactly right that the ones that weren't beneficial were snuffed out generationally.
That'll be the truth. Same thing exactly happened up here (Canada) with the First Nations. Terrible pity, as their knowledge would have been enormously useful against the effects of climate change...
You have to throw some shame on the dummies in his department of education as well for spewing that racist propaganda as well. It's not "sanitized history", it's not what happened at all.
I'm a white millennial guy. It's so sad to hear white people upset about facing history. I didn't contribute past racism, but i sure feel ashamed of other white people's behavior toward people of different color.
I’m a 53 yo white female and what makes me MOST ashamed is even knowing the awful history of slavery in Americas past -we still have people in the world that think this way.
And here's the irony of it all, as a 60s black American man, I can safely say that most of black America isn't walking around looking to hold the past over white America's head but my God, that was my ancestors and our history's holocaust. To downplay in anyway is highly offensive. Wisdom is the children's bread.
"You should talk to them about it. I wasn't a part of it". Wow! It was the department of education for his own administration which he is the leader. Even if he didn't sign off, he should take some leadership to try to do something instead of just saying "you should talk them about it". Imagine if anyone else who had responsibility over a team said that. And he wants to be President? I want a leader where the buck stops with that person. Not a person who pushes off responsibility if something if something bad happens.
Yes it is uncomfortable to hear about, but imagine those who had to live it! It is extremely unfortunate that it ever had to happen, but it is truth and needs to be truthfully taught so it NEVER happens again! Desantis is a horrible human being!
You are absolutely right Satan is a horrible individual just like the ancestors who did those horrible in human things to Black people. He is just as responsible today as they were then.
As a African American and a decedent of slavery meaning both of my parents grandparents parents was slaves, and thats not really a long time ago, this move is one of the most idiotic and disrespectful things in this era I've ever heard. And will not be allowed.
Fair enough. Do you acknowledge any wrongdoing by blacks who sold slaves to the world? what about the blacks who continued to sell slaves out of Africa to South America AFTER slavery was banned by White men in the early 19th century? Tell me how many black slaves were owned by blacks in America? I'm fine with you arguing your point and can meet you on common ground. However, if you refuse to acknowledge history, the real history that hurts, then there's not much room to move any further.
Imagine how FL teachers feel! After covering 4 years of bloody battles in the Civil War & the 13th amendment, they have to say slavery was actually good.
I'm a 62 year old white guy who learned about slavery decades ago in a school system that had no problem telling students --- black, white, whatever --- the truth about slavery, the Klan, etc. It didn't cause me to feel inferior and I got along fine with my black classmates. Nobody blamed us for what slavers did in past centuries.
@@shermanfarves You're welcome. Skin color always seemed to me to be the stupidest reason to hate your neighbor. Come to think, are there any good ones?
Being a white lady, born & raised in CA I was taught that inappropriate choices were made, and thankfully amended & we can learn from those inappropriate choices and make better decisions going forward on how we treat people. PEOPLE. I'm w/o words when I think about how we treat or don't our fellow HUMAN BEINGS! I have a family of squirrels in back yard that treat THEIR SAME SPECIES with RESPECT!!! PLEASE REMEMBER & RESPECT! Thank you for listening... 🥑
Honestly, I don't think it's the kids that are uncomfortable with the facts if slavery, it's their parents. The same way some of the same parents are whining about books that aren't white straight and totally male centered.
@susanpallister8037 I don't think it's the kids that are uncomfortable with the facts of slavery, it's their parents. BINGO! Thank you. I hadn't understood that.
In Canada we had a senator who insisted on maintaining that the (Indian) Residential Schools did some good things for the Indigenous People of Canada. These are “third rail” issues. How stupid is DeSantis? 🙄
Didn't the con's back in 2007 say that indigenous people got enough money, when paul Martin was going to give indigenous people 8 billion dollars in budget and when Martin lost the election Steve harper gives it to his rich conservative buddies, by lowering the gst from 7 to 5 .
I went to the Heard Museum in Phoenix Arizona which is a Native American museum and they have an exhibit on the residential schools. It was an eye opener and sad to see how the indigenous children went through.
The Holocaust didn't happen in America but they received reparations if they gave descendants of slaves in America reparations we would bankrupt corporations cuz they owe a lot more
@@turretplug6858yes, with gold in their teeth, luckily jews love giving away their gold when you douse them in acid, why do you think coca cola is so successful
It doesn't make me uncomfortable learning true history, what makes me uncomfortable is finding out as an adult that I was never taught what really happened when I was in school!
As another person in the comments said-peoples of ALL races and both sexes have been enslaved--it's horrible and still happening today. All the people shopping on the new foreign site buying $50 shoes for $4.99-they are enabling child labor, endentured servants= slave laborers. Shame on everyone for not using critical thinking skills. We HAVE to get the MAGA's out of our politics, out of any kind of leadership position!
May be more aptly put as being a shortage of sanities, ignorance of truths & disregard of humanities. I recall a billboard sign placed on the outbound road, between what was designated as Black Town headed toward White Town. Which read: don't let your Black a*s be in White Town after sunset ! This was in the early 80s. I was a teenager then, but it was forever burned into my syche.
I think the *ADULTS* don't want to feel uncomfortable. They also want their kids to believe that the CONTINUED oppression and maltreatment of black people in this country is the fault of black people themselves. . As a black teacher in a predominantly white elementary school for 35 years WE discussed the good and bad in American history. No parent EVER complained and the kids NEVER felt that they were responsible for the INHUMANE treatment of slaves. They were, however, shocked at the reality of Americans being so unbelievably cruel and depraved toward ANY HUMAN BEINGS. AND THAT INCLUDED THE TREATMENT OF NATIVE AMERICANS AS WELL.
When I arrived in this country I learned that US had one of the worst civil wars for the time period, the longest race-based oppression systems in recent history (both slavery and Jim Crow Era), that it is one of the few countries that managed to almost completely ethnically cleanse the area they occupied. Not only that, but they maintain the 20 dollar bill with Andrew Jackson on it, still racially segregate but use financial strata of society to do it (they keep all the programs and means that amplify family financial differences to keep groups segregated), keep trying to add the whitewashing into school books -- and all of this well into the 21st century.
History cannot be erased at all. Politicians know that any country in the world came to existence through things that happened in the past whether it was good or bad. Things, bad and/or good happened in the past and we as human beings have to accept it. All of it made the history of any country
I’ll never forget sitting in class as a young black girl and learning about slavery. I remember having an out body experience as I was one of two black students. We moved on quickly and it was traumatizing. I can’t imagine what it would feel like to learn this from that lens and not feel completely outraged, insulted, embarrassed and overwhelmed.
Wouldn't it be much worse for young Jewish people sitting in class first learning about the Holocaust? I'm "white" but I don't see this through the black blame white lens. My family immigrated to the U.S. from Italy half a century after the Civil War... and no family member of mine or myself has ever even once lived in any Southern "Confederate" state. Though Italians were definitely enslaved in Roman history. We have no ties to slaveowners. Not even remotely, genetically, spiritually, etc. You can direct your rage and insult elsewhere!
@@c.rutherfordHuh? Why would it be worse when our grandparents were experiencing the massacres of Reconstruction in America around the same time that the Holocaust happened? And, if you've actually studied American history, you would know that American slavery wasn't comparable with the other forms of servitude that were common in that generation. It was utterly abominable because of how horribly they treated our ancestors...the forced SAs of both men and women to ruin theur ties to a specific country in Africa, the selling and exploitation of children, the overworking of female slaves to the point where their muscles separated from their bones, using children as foot warmers, performing surgeries on women without anesthesia. American slavery was not..just slavery.
I was actually thinking about what that must feel like because I remember sitting next to my best friend who was the only black kid in the class and I remember the entire class looking back at him when we were being taught about slavery. I didn’t realize it at the time but that had to be incredibly tough on him. I’m sorry you had to experience that.
@c.rutherford ... u r deflecting, any human with natural human emotions should be disgusted at the history of the US, and participating nations that took part in the slave trade and reconstruction, the rise of the klan and the continual evil perpetrated by those who lack respect for all lives, just as we r disgusted with the history of the holocaust. Neither was better or worse, both were traumatizing for those victims & their descendants.
This reminds me of a short period of time -- in the early 80s/Reagan years - when young people were being taught that the Civil War wasn't about slavery but was about states' rights. It wasn't until I got to college that I first heard my professors in the history classes pronounce the b.s. of that theory. I remember one professor saying if it heard that nonsense out of anyone in the class, it was an automatic "F" for the student for the semester. I was absolutely delighted. Yet, here we are again - back to the Republicans trying to rewrite history. I'm so disgusted and so sick of it.
Yeah I remember hearing that too in high school lol. It's so wild. When I went to college is when I learned differently. Which truly makes me really consider the fact that the feds have steadily reduced education funding, thereby creating a growing financial barrier to attending to college. I know it's entering "tin foil hat" territory but I can't help but notice that just as we collectively became more educated, they started gutting education spending. Then starting in the bush administration, suddenly the way we are taught in schools started changing. This is just a continuation of a 15+ year movement to alter class content.
@@Hawk7886 the foundation of the states' rights argument was based on slavery though. Slave states knew that if it was banned, their primary source of income would be drastically reduced, thereby giving the federal gov't a stronger foothold. Today, former slave states rely heavily on funding given by the federal government, which comes with strings attached. It should come as no surprise that former slave states consistently have some of the highest rates of poverty in the US by pop size. Then of course, you have to add in the fact that they were in absolute fear of the reality that former slaves would be able to participate in the democratic process, thereby upsetting the balance of political power. Wouldn't you be quaking in your boots if the very people you oppressed suddenly can kick you out of power? Today, the US farming industry relies heaaavvvviillly on labor from undocumented immigrants, which is the equivalent to slavery because of how low the wages are and the lack of benefits. If they paid real wages, strawberries would be $10+ rather than $4 (Ga prices). Funny enough southern GOP states were very strong advocates against DACA and other methods of legitimizing undocumented immigrants. Why? Because of the very same reasons they fought against banning slavery. The more you know.
I would correct Eugene by saying kid's PARENTS are the ones who feel uncomfortable. Why don't they do a poll of kids and ask them what they think, instead of just assuming we know? Kids are not nearly as stupid as parents seem to think they are.
As a child (I’m very white a blonde blue eyed German from WI) learning about slavery and we even watched Roots …I’m 51…..it NEVER made me feel uncomfortable whatsoever….it made me feel….SHOCKED…..DISGUSTED…..and showed me how rotten and disgusting humans can be. It NEVER made me feel like somehow “I” or even “my people” did this,….for one my German family came over in 1880 & came directly to WI…poor farmers…..so anyhow……sorry I’ve never met any white person against slavery who it made uncomfortable……I think the right makes that t makes us all feel all kinds of horrifying emotions…..
But republicans can’t shout “ what about the children?!” If the kids are wanting to learn real history. That those parents are says really is “ the truth makes me uncomfortable so I’m going to foist that upon my children and ruin any chance they have at normal school education that work for YEARS”
If I sit on a tack, I am uncomfortable. Removing myself from sitting on the tack and watching that I don't do it next time is positive learning. Republicans pretending discomfort is bad is pure idiocy.
Exactly! In growing up I heard stories of wealthy ancestors who owned plantations. An aunt followed it back and there are records of them owning slaves. It doesn't make me uncomfortable. I find it deplorable, but I don't want the truth of their lives erased.
Wasn't there a Simpson's episode where Bart kept saying, "I didn't do it?" Does DeSantis think he's as revered as Bart Simpson? DeSantis is a joke. A dangerous joke.
And you had all sorts of slave masters throughout history, black masters, white masters, asian masters, anglo-saxon masters. It just depends in the geographical time that you want to focus
@@hegeliankid1226 Are people wanting AMERICAN history taught, arguing those points? What relevance does that have to the attempt to portray America's history of slavery as something positive?
@@Marvellous132 I’m not arguing against any of the extremist/reductionists sides; the right thinks slavery is simply gone and thing of the past while the left in a condescending way wants to focus on a victimization of blacks against the evil of whites. Both too simple, responding to the dual political environment that serves capital and its new forms of slavery. In my opinion, if you really want to teach about slavery in the Americas, you should teach cultural anthropology(lighter than evolutive anthropology) and within-this broad study of humans you can focus on the different power shifts on the exchange of humans as a living commodity and understand better where did all come from and how and why blacks became the focus of this market at the moment westerners started their expansionist global campaign.
That's not really true. Slavery enriched the entire country. Because of the South's agrarian culture, the southern states didn't have the population of white laborers needed to support major industry. So unable to refine their own agricultural products, they sold them to refineries in the North. . Hundreds of thousands of white men worked in them and provided for their wives and children by processing agricultural products planted, maintained, and harvested by black slaves. Thus, millions of whites in the North were supported by the cotton industries in the northern states. And the taxes produced by overseas sales, enriched the nation. In the 1800s, the cotton industry became to the US as the oil industry is to Saudi Arabia. It was that mass influx of cash that fueled industrialization and built the US navy with which he US established global power.
Technically not true slavery. hilt America Any corporation based in the US can attribute it’s success to slavery The conquest of the land from its native inhabitants can be credited to the Gatling gun Nothing to be proud of in either case😢 AND some of us are still 😡 angry and justifiably so😺
@@heirofthenazareen3812……are you serious? Just cause hitler did “wonders” for the German economy doesn’t mean he was good! We are STILL SEEING THE ADVERSE EFFECTS OF SLAVERY TO THIS DAY IT WAS NOT A NET GOOD!!!!!
So true. Several of their examples of someone who "benefited" from slavery were never slaves - they were born as freemen. These are racist, partisan hacks, not scholars.
So, we’re supposed to think of slavery not as a soul-crushing evil, so wasteful of human potential, but as a sort of Antebellum community college? One wonders why Blacks today so resent the fact that their ancestors were granted this unique opportunity!
Doesn't anyone understand, if a person keeps picking at the scab, covering a deep cut, not only will it take longer to heal, they will have a bigger and uglier scar for them to look at and relive an experience that was either caused by someone else or their own recklessness?
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As a FL resident, I love every single bit of DeSantis's fall. He's a genuinely terrible human being and has embraced being terrible so he deserves every bit of this
Fellow Floridian, I stand with you in solidarity and with a bag of popcorn 🍿. May he and his administration go down in flames ruining this once great state 🔥
The sad thing is that the Fascist Loser is going to crawl back to Florida and torment us for a couple of more years.
Same here
Floridian waiting for this disgusting human fall & fall hard. 🍿
The only followers he has left are homophobic, transphobic, fascists, and racists.
I grew up in Florida, and I’m white. We learned about slavery when I was in school. Yes it was uncomfortable and heartbreaking, but the truth is uncomfortable. It is necessary to learn from the ugliness of our past. It strikes me that DeSantis is essentially trying to spin slavery as “not that bad”, or god forbid, attempting to justify it as a practice. Absolutely despicable.
You get it!!! 👏🏽🙏🏼
I'm in Arkansas and if I still had my 5th grade Arkansas history book. We were definitely taught about slavery in the early 80s
Agreed. On top learning about Slavery, in my high school history class we also learned about how the Irish, Polish, and other foreign immigrants were treated in NYC back in the early 1800's (hint: they were treated and called something akin to 'trash'). So glad I had a good history teacher that was allowed to cover many different angles and include as many races of people as possible. It showed how much we are all alike, not how we're different.
Thank you. Well said.
Desatan should distant himself from government offices
As a middle class white kid, I grew up learning about MLK, the Civil Rights movement, Jim Crow laws, etc...
I never felt uncomfortable or guilty. I felt only disgust and anger at the way people had been treated.
That is why they don’t want it to be taught. This generation of kids are much more diverse and would rather not repeat it. That is why they want to change the age of voting so young 18 years can’t vote because most won’t vote repub.
Bravo!
And there’s no reason for you to feel uncomfortable or guilty.
Thank you. That's exactly how I, a Black woman, felt...disgusted. That's a "human" response.
That is the way anyone should feel. It's information that everyone ought to know. Perhaps all can learn the lesson of humanity
As a Teacher, I would not want to work in an environment where I am constantly being targeted or the scape goat for politicians and intolerant parents who are to fragile to learn anything.
Welcome to the World of Magats.
So slavery was totally useful for the slaves but wearing a little mask in public during a deadly pandemic is an unbearable torment. 🙄😡
😂😂😂😂😂. Sad & funny all at once 🤣🤣🤣
Don’t forget banning books and boycotting beer😂 such heroes
Pe-S, excellent point, I hadn't thought of it that way
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basically. smh.
Denying responsibility for the actions of a department he is responsible for?
Yeah, that sounds like a Republican.
republiCONS = All LIES All the Time along with constant Fear & Loathing of "other" people.
Just sad😮
He Takes No Responsibility. You know what? He majored in History at Yale! He knows better! He could in a minute make a phone call and reverse this course. Instead he washes his hands.
@@ponygroom, writes _"Well, he's got to get all that snot off them somehow...
trump did it.
Desantis absolutely did this! Does nobody remember AP African-American Studies?
Yep. He will try to distance himself from the backlash but behind closed doors he's high fiving his racist school board buddies.
Desantis crafted the bill with FL GOP & signed the bill into law. He was definitely a part of it!
@@brentwalker8596, but publicly threw them under the bus. Just like his former mentor.
That's sooo last week
Honestly I don't know why we have AP African-American Studies. That entire class should just be made part of AP World History and AP US History, which should be totally inclusive to the point you'd be nuts to want to have race-specific or gender-specific studies.
I hope Black Americans are paying attention to all these distractions
How about Americans should pay attention? Blacks are only 13% of the population, like it or not just 13%.
If DeSantis didn't do it, won't reverse it, then he's responsible for it. It's repulsive.
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What’s repulsive? Give me clear evidence of what specifically is repulsive.
It's not slavery it's mandatory work skills training that your family is perpetually obligated to repay. That's fair! - Ron DeSantis
@@Eldot5 that you can’t see why saying slavery is “beneficial” is awful says it all.
@@Eldot5you serious? Oooh I think you’re just mad because you can’t define woke
We knew DeSantis was a despicable politician. Now he reveals himself being a coward, unable to take responsibility for what he's done.
Racist!!! Who needs
medical intervention.
DeSatan is dumb, ignorant to the bone, a dictator and a coward. Well said.
Deaantasis 2024 🇺🇲🇺🇲
@@happyjohn1656You lie fascist fools,eh?!
Lol get ready for the gop to win and wreck your world
As a former white kid and now white adult, knowing what slavery truly was never made me ashamed of myself being white. It drove me to watch the way I think, what I do, and how I treat people, Slavery is a dusgusting truth of this country, and to pretend it didn't happen makes them sad and pathetic. Be Better Than We Have Ever Been, Learn from the Past to keep the attrocities committed from ever happening again!
The ones that have that guilt do hold those racists beliefs and think people of color are inferior but they don't say it out loud. That's why they feel like when racists get attacked they get attacked. It's because deep down they have those beliefs no matter how much they verbalize that they don't.
IF they didn't have that guilt then they would be like you. Not racist.
Right?? What I learned from history lessons about slavery and the civil rights movement is that it's wrong to treat people as unequal based on things like the color of their skin... which is probably exactly what DeSantis is afraid of kids learning.
We should study history not to bring shame from it, but to bring pride of where we've come from.
You get it!
Being white, growing up, learning about US history in school, the horrific and unjust treatment of minorities did sicken me, angered me, and made me determined to continue to fight injustice and discrimination into my adulthood. I’m still learning.
It was rare for any teacher in any state to teach the whole ugly truth about slavery when I was growing up. You had to go to college for that, and even then only if you happened to take the right course or attend the right college. All they taught us was Columbus discovered America and the history of Europe. The history taught at my high school was trash. So lifelong learning is something that I value. Thank goodness my kids learned more than I did (and that they didn't go to school in Florida).
@@organichotdog3807 Blame the school board your parents elected. The Articles of Confederation came so close to banning slavery and it was all about state's rights. The constitutional convention made it a point to keep it out to ensure ratification. Learned that in my high school in Illinois.
I ended up in FL 8 years ago so I’m very familiar with DeSantis unfortunately. He will never admit any wrongdoing or bad decisions. It’s always someone else’s fault. He’s a cowardly little punk. I’m 54 and what I wasn’t taught in school about the atrocities of slavery - which was a lot - I read about and learned on my own & from friends. It never made me hate myself or hate the country. It made me hate what has happened and what people allowed, and still allow, in society. And it makes me want to do whatever I can to contribute to a better society. It’s sad that DeSantis, his fans & people like him have never actually thought about what it would be like to be OWNED by another person. Zero empathy. There’s something very wrong and very dangerous about not being capable of putting yourself in someone else’s shoes.
I’m just now starting to read more on our history- I never realized how lacking my Georgian education was! The sad thing is my (white) AP history teacher did try to teach us that slavery “wasn’t that bad.” I hope this legislation forces more schools to look into what the heck is being taught to kids about history
And Ron was their great non-trump hope.
Spoken like a human being obviously you are a critical thinker truth along with facts wer in your words but most of all a god-given conscience that can discern good from evil and old preacher full of wisdom once said talk is cheap it cost money to buy land he simply met we can talk all we want but our words will expose us for who we really are it's also a proven fact people will tell you who they really are by their whether they be good or evil they always produce actions
This is what DeSantis would call “being woke”. Politicians like him, Cruz, MTG, Boebert, etc have absolutely nothing of value to say and absolutely no idea how to run a country so they’ll just keep spreading fear of “them” because that’s the only way they’ll ever get what they truly want, power.
“Them” literally being “anyone even remotely different to you”.
That’s every Republican politician
I'm a Floridian. I NEVER voted for DeSatan. I learned about slavery in school. It was sad and horrible but I didn't feel guilty cause I was never a slave owner. If DeSatan can't deal with the issue of slavery then that's HIS problem! The rest of us want the TRUTH to be taught in schools! Never forget....NEVER relive! Vote BLUE!
i agree with you plus we can just learn alot from our neighbor or co-workers. Which is why america needs to be more diverse in every neighborhood and every work place.
I also felt sad and horrified and as a former teacher when books told of bad acts done to black and brown people I would stop…and try to explain how that happened long ago and it was wrong! Now, some still live where awful things happen but it’s now against the law! Etc
You must be the 1% in florida . I feel bad you have to live in that hellhole
Well said and honest.
haha I call him DeSatan too. I hope it catches on.
I went to a Christian conservative high school in the early 90s and even then, we learned that slavery was an atrocity perpetuated by evil on a people stolen from their homeland or forced birth by their "masters." I am a descendant of a Native slave who was sold to someone in Alabama and I can tell you slavery was not a job opportunity. We live in a country built on genocide and enslavement and we need to teach our children the truth.
For sure. Those who talk about the "skills" that enslaved people picked up neglect to acknowledge the skills that they would've been able to learn had they not been trapped in such a violent, dehumanizing system.
not just stolen from their homeland but enslaved first by africans and imprisoned before being sold. this went on even after the british outlawed slavery. the kidnapping of black men or prisoners of war in african conflicts by fellow african men allowed for the african slave trade to continue in other parts of the world (ie - south america).
it's terrible what black kings, warlords and others did to other black men.
The GOP party, should not be represented by an elephant. This is far to misleading. The animal being far more indicative as suitably representing their cowardly exhibitions, would be the Noble Osterich ! As when confronted with facts & truth, efficaciously buries its head in the sand, for hours, days, even months on end ! As Pretending & Deluding itself such informations simply don't exist. And when such informations become overwhelmingly irrefutable, can speed off at incredible breakneck speeds of up to 60 mph. thus fleeing & avoiding any oppositional facts & truths. And as a last resort when corralled, can viciously peck, voraciously kick & savagely claw its opponent's ! What a truly Noble Bird !
Well said friend ! ❤
Exactly
His vendetta against African Americans has been laid bare for the entire country to see, and he has no defense, this isn’t Florida, it’s the national stage, and this essentially makes him unelectable. He can’t run from this, it’s a law he rubber stamped, and gloated about, he owns it.
Exactly. He forgot he was running for Federal position. 😅
That part!🎉
Replacing history with lies is what the GQP is all about.
@brothertaro2008 Replacing history with lies is what White people are all about.
Also, it's them not me...
I don't like that they lie, but I really hate that they lie about lying.
Well, there might be "SOME" who profited from it, but that's like saying that the jews which survived the Holocaust, profited from getting stronger through the experience. There is no real both-siding on some issues. Holocaust, slavery, killing of u.s. natives... on stuff like that just accept the L and shut up.
@@chonqmonk Why do you chime in? You are saying the store was robbed but it wasn't me. Nobody said it was you. But if you commented like that you must be guilty.
Therefore, you must have had the same mentality and now you are regretful. Your "guilt reared it's ugly head"
Learning about slavery isn't just uncomfortable for White students to hear, Black students are uncomfortable and hurt. Everyone should feel awful about slavery because it was wrong and unjust but it happened. We must learn from our mistakes and own it.
I learned about slavery in public schools. It did not give me PTSD or a feeling of guilt. If you eliminate all history that is uncomfortable then history is history. WW2?. Colonization of America and its impact on native Americans?
But the Bible says Slavery is OK.. So it must be good! being a good book!
Why bother when you can just rewrite history?
@@soulanstreets I will not quibble over how many verses referred to slavery, but I will say that the old testament did warn against abuse of slaves, which there, were spoils of war, but the Jewish law had the Jubilee rule: after seven years, all debts cancelled. All slaves got freed. That is where the 7-year indenture rule of England and the American colonies originated. And of course, while Paul at one point spoke of slaves being obedient, he later said, there is neither slave nor free, all being equal in Christ.
Desantis is a coward demanding something and then not saying he commanded it. Desantis is also the worst kind of liar. First, he says wokeness is wrong, critical race theory is wrong, the insistence that Black people were denied rights, denied recognition for achievements, denied opportunities. He wanted no instruction about great things that had been suppressed.
Then, he turned right around, to have Black achievements recognized, only as a pathway to saying whites made it possible. That is classic plantation mentality. Tell a truth just to tell a big lie.
That is just like the denial of CRT. These same bigots will say Black people are racist, "trying to replace whites _in spots whites always held."_ Notice how, in their complaint, they actually _admit_ CRT.
A bigot is a bigot because he is selfish, ignorant, and dishonest.
What is worse, Desantis is of Italian descent, and apparently ignored the history where Italians were not regarded as real whites or real Americans. They got hurt by the D word, as Black people got hurt by the N word.
Desantis has a name meaning "from the blessed" but he apparently has rejected that, just like the one whose name meant "bearer of light" chose the opposite.
@@soulanstreets please don't lie and act like people don't use the Bible to justify just about anything and they find in makeup things in there that's what happens and you know that
“I’ve done nothing wrong” has been the statement of many guilty people lately once they’re caught. THIS DUDE is the worst!!!🤨
Soon he will be adding "witch hunt" and what a beautiful law it was.
Leadership means *owning* stuff, *accountability*… and DeSantis is clearly walking away from it.
The more they claim they are innocent, the guiltier that are. Innocent people don't fight investigations as they know nothing will be found.
Its an old one. Sometimes they blame god. Sometimes they blame the devil. But its never them doing the evil.
Well you know, that saying has become the standard Republican response instilled into the party by no other than the Orange Jesus.
I almost choked when Chris Christie said "I didn't do it and I am not involved in it are not the words of leadership". 🤣
Yes! The bridge closed itself!🤣🤣🤣
I grew up in the fifties and sixties, and was convinced that we as Americans were (slowly) growing beyond racism and exploitation. I was wrong.
I have to agree. We had our problems, but as an 80s kid, I really don't remember it being this bad.
All Black people thought we were finally going to be acknowledged as human beings, we were all wrong. It only get worse as we made stripes in education, became of the political arena, and then had a black president. these white people were saying behind the scenes, We can’t have these Black people in charge of anything, so now here we are. Racism is boiling over.
Republicans policies have shifted to only one goal - helping racists feel good about their racism. F*** their feelings.
Same here! What happened to the "Great Melting Pot" I was taught about in grammar school? Apparently that's dead and gone, at least according to republicans!
You weren't wrong. This is the death rattle of the confederacy.
Soon Florida will replace the word "slavery" with "unpaid internship".
And the holocaust was a cross country by train sight seeing tour, is probably up next.
They replaced the term slavery "involuntary servitude"
I am waiting for these IDIOTS to claim that the SLAVES needed the SLAVE OWNERS to survive and SLAVES were free to leave the plantation at any time.
Textbooks also say that it was involuntary migration.
Texas tried to say slaves were migrates.
Black history IS American History!
And m s n b c IS fake propaganda for simpletons
Right on.
But he wants to white wash the dirty little secret. He is unreal Prue evil.
That point! Or that part! Everyone is part of the human race!
It’s a huge part of history !!!!!
I'm a Floridian and this is unreal in 2023 we have to vote this "boy" out!!!
Claiming that slaves benefited from being enslaved is absolutely insane. Ronda is running Florida into the ground.
Your comment caused aJan and Dean song to get stuck in my head
not sure. maybe the ones sold to america instead of death by enemy african tribes?
it's a terrible argument isnt' it?
It's not only insane, it's evil.
@@skippyhandleman1625
You sound as ignorant of actual history as Ron does.
@skippyhandleman1625 death is better than what happened here.
Wow! He really IS trying to be a Trump clone. Even lying about not doing things that EVERYONE saw him do!!!
I don't think Trump would've sunk this low publicly.
@@sparklesp9304trump has set a bar so low not even the world’s best limbo dancer could get under it. DeathSantis is Trump light.
Omicron version of cult 45 😂
yep.
@@glennthompson1971 Thats a good one!😅👍
Let’s Not Get It Twisted Out Here...They didn't steal slaves. They stole scientists, doctors, architects, teachers, entrepreneurs, astronomers, fathers, mothers, sons, daughters, etc. and made them slaves. Sincerely, Your Ancestors."-Javan Dradshaw
they where sold lets not forget
blacks sold blacks now go to the mother land and ask why
@@Jude-hq4okand Caucasians killed each other and had a Hundred years war Russia had surfs until the 1910s
@@Jude-hq4okLOL
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The thing is a lot of slaves already had the skills when they got here and the ones who were born here acquired the skills from other slaves.
They were inventing new ways to do the work too. The things they invented weren’t even credited to them.
As a parent, if the thought of enslaving another human being DIDN'T make my children feel not only uncomfortable but horrified, I'd know I had way bigger problems than what was being taught in school.
Well said!
Conservatives have it down, you just have to start by teaching your kids how to dehumanize everyone who doesn't look or act like them. The rest is just practice.
That's so true. The whole point of school should be to give the kids information that makes them THINK. They should be uncomfortable sometimes. They should be questioning what we've done that was right or wrong. They should be learning to recognize unintended consequences of well meaning decisions.
Isn't it funny how people (mostly Republicans) like to call kids these days "snowflakes" and claim that all they want is "safe spaces", but also don't want to teach them things that may hurt their feelings?
Agree...learning about history should not necessarily be "comfortable"....
@@pirtatejoe Because it’s really not about the kids. It’s about themselves. If their kids learn too much, they may actually see the racism in their own parents and be ashamed of them. For republicans, it’s ALWAYS about themselves.
As a former republican myself these clowns running for office sicken me
As a Democrat I'm glad to hear it maybe we can move forward from this and get something done.
Make sure you get all your friends to not vote Republican until the MAGAs are purged
Lol cool, as a former Republican I love all these businesses tycoons running for office! 2016 showed how much republicans and democrats in office actually are friends and work together to stay in power. That’s why republicans and democrats tried to team up against Trump lol so yah now I hate republicans and democrats and I don’t trust either of you😂
@@c.michellesparks2925Ya trump!
Are you ok with the Bidens? or do you just look the other way?
This actually brings tears to my eyes. My grandmother was the first black women at her university in Kentucky. She had to pick up food from the back of restaurants while her friends could go inside. She experienced Jim Crow. Slavery, Jim Crow, Red Lining still impacts black communities. After emancipation a bunch of laws were put in to effect such as loitering because of the clause that prisoners can be used for slave labor. That clause still exists. I love my country. I have faith in the people white, brown, black, blue but, my heart is heavy today knowing that young people are being learning this. It’s like spitting in the face of the black community. It’s a new low. Not to mention slavery was already being taught in a way that didn’t allow for nuance, healing and deep conversation
Red lining has had a MASSIVE impact on black Americans! The average white families median wealth is $140,000. For blacks it’s $3,600! This is in large part due to red lining!
I can only imagine how upsetting and infuriating this is for the Black community. My father was in Japanese-occupied Philippines and my in-law grandparents experienced all the troubles with reservations and Indian schools. In the 80s, I was taught Japanese internment camps were good, but I knew they were not, and educated myself. So between me and our family, my children learned about these types of things before kindergarten, and they have much more empathy and a better moral compass than their peers. It's truly upsetting the truth and the victims of these atrocities are being spun into a "good thing." The truth is the good thing!
As a white female I can’t imagine how you must feel. I’m ashamed that this is happening. I have a coworker who shared her experiences being a black female growing up in my town. It was shocking and I’m glad she told me. How else are we to understand someone as a person and live together in society without having some understanding of their life experiences and how they aren’t the same as mine? I never had a woman hide her purse if I’m standing in the same line. I never had security follow me in a high end store. These experiences need to be shared. Black people have a right to be heard, and the descendants of those who were enslaved deserve to have Justice. (((Hugs)))
You are playing right into it. You say you're ashamed because of your race. Either you think that race has nothing to do with a person's character or you don't.
Victimhood begets validation with this crowd. So does validation of victimhood. That's why they're here
"All cruelty springs from weakness” - Seneca
He doesn’t “distance himself.” He attempts to distance himself from his ridiculous and extremely racist beliefs. He needs to be fired by the voters.
He was re-elected once. He will most likely be re-elected again. Critical thinking is not taught in public schools on purpose.
Fired by the voters? DeSantis is a white supr*macist who was voted into office by other white s*premacist.. The racists and bigots have the greater numbers in that [red] state and most other highly populated red states like Texas.
Word.
He learn how to be a man by reading Josh Hawley 's smashing best seller, Manhood, (how to be a long "distance"runner)🏃
Having fairly recently been hired with the largest mandate in state history. Not sure how you'd achieve such a reverse...
He needs to be held accountable by the NAACP!
He appointed the people on that board. He denies and takes no responsibility but he is responsible. Then he should veto it.
Exactly
We where have we heard that rhetoric before? The orange dumpster hisself
Yep, but he “didn’t” do it.. smh
He can't. This is in response to the bill he signed last year about not teaching subjects that make students uncomfortable because of their race. He'd have to repeal that decision and his whole brand is "never back down". He's afraid his supporters will see him as weak if he reverses that decision, so instead Florida's children will suffer.
TRUE- Inspired by him
"I didn't do it." That sounds painfully familiar having survived 2017 to 2020. "I'm not responsible." "They did it." "China did it."
yup
Trump clone
I thought it turned out it did come from China though....
@@elliotgillum If you're talking about the pandemic, the point isn't where it came from. The whole world knew where it started. The point is that his attitude was, I didn't do it, why should I be stuck with the job to fix it? And when he found out it hurt NY and California first, he actually went another step to hinder the distribution of PPEs.
Any other president would've taken the opportunity to unite the people and do something constructive to save lives. For him, the bar was so low. If he'd have stopped talking and let other people do the work, he'd have been re-elected easily. But he couldn't even do that.
@@elliotgillum it doesn't matter where it came from, the important part was to address it properly and try to protect the population. He instead lied and actively worked against everyone's safety. He is quite seriously responsible for hundreds of thousands of deaths. Ironically, the likely majority of those deaths were from his own rabid fanbase.
So he as the governor of FL can take action against mask mandates in FL schools by threatening to sue any FL counties who mandated masks during the pandemic, but a new curriculum giving credit to slavery for teaching skills 🤔 His hands are tied??
Florida schools had mask mandates for most of the pandemic
"These were scholars that put this together"
For the millionth time, David Barton is not a scholar.
The list of 16 examples they gave of slaves benefiting from slavery, more than half had been born free after the civil war, one name listed was George Washington’s white sister! Another name was someone who had written a book about being a slave. Since it was illegal for slaves to learn to read and write, that skill was definitely not a skill learned from slavery. The “scholars” claims are ludicrous. And let’s not forget all the millions of people who were enslaved.
@@chloekey8043exactly. And the enslaved didn't get to retire in order to parlay their skills into personal benefit later in life.
@@chloekey8043 And let's not forget about the Jim Crow laws and the lynchings and what side Florida was on at the time.
There are NO SCHOLARS in the Florida State Department of Education! It is a totally politicized bunch of Desantis bobbleheads.
Using the hillsdale college curriculum is not scholarship. It is an agenda with the ultimate goal of getting all the taxpayer education money into churches or into the hands of "for-profit" grifters. Betsy DeVos, the WORST education secretary of all time, had this as her agenda (along with making college campuses safe for rapists) but was far too inept to get anything done.
"Who knew that cheerleading slavery would be the end of my political career?"
(everyone in the room raises their hands)
The Republican party is a religious cult. All he has to do is parrot the typical Biden is terrible talking points, and he won't lose much Republican support.
Desantis: surprised Pikachu
😂 🎯
Taking a page out of good 'ol George Wallace's disgraceful run for president.
People being against slavery! Wow! How unexpected.
I’m a 67 year old white guy and this is one of the reasons I moved out of Florida these people are absolutely out-of-control. They want to move the country back 50 years tell women what to do vote Democratic especially young people if you don’t vote this is what you’re gonna get.
50 years? More like 175 years I'm thinkin.'
Well said Richard. Actually some in the far right whether it's Desantis, Reeves in Mississippi, Sanders, Jr. in AK(sorry she is only Governor because of her Dad's name) and Loudmouth MTG are part of that Gen X/Millennial era born MAGA leaders trying to play a dangerous game of chicken. These MAGA's actually are trying to bring America back beyond even before the 1960's to appeal to at most currently 10-20 Million Voters in the country who are against being in the 21st century. With trying to either downplay or even not mention, the real story of slavery in the first 90 years of US history being a big part of it.
Meaning they don't like Black and Other Peoples of Color, the Disabled, anyone not born in America especially those from Latin America and Africa, the LGBQT community, and those with college degrees. In other words, anyone that is NOT A White man. Yet these so called political leaders on the MAGA side such as Ron and Donald only want to be with the top 000.1% of Billionaires in their gated communities.
Alot of snow birds ( canadains ) are thinking of moving out of Florida to West Arizona next winter. This man isn't president material , he's a joke. Is he going to say that if he becomes president. Doesn't the buck stops with him.
I am 75 and a black person. I remember what my mom and others went through just to get the benefits. The recognition that we have yes and I agree vote blue💙the save your freedom and your rights that have been gained and hope to gain more..
you should have stayed here to help turn our state blue lol
This is the equivalent to someone saying “the civil war wasn’t about slavery, it was about states rights”
“I only poured the gasoline and struck the match.” Sounds like cowardice more than leadership.
Sounds like spoiled Frat boy to me.
When I was learning about slavery as a white kid I never felt uncomfortable, just sad. Thankfully I had a teacher who also taught compassion. She said “ These things did happen, but we can keep it from happening again” if she was still a teacher now she probably would have gotten fired in Florida.
Unfortunately sadly, nonetheless you had a good teacher 💯. I’m a Floridian college history student rn & I wonder if I’ll have to move to another state to teach the truth despite being born & raised here
@@Rosemary46840👀TRUTH IS TRUTH SO TEACH THE TRUTH
She understood the assignment.
@@Rosemary46840 Florida voters need to make some dramatic changes before they chase away all their teachers.
DeSantis is pushing old KKK ideology.
De Santis elected the education board, he know that he bares the responsibility along with it
@saramill2097 When was it, it suppose to teach the history of slavery in the US in the 17th century up to where it is oppressed do not compare it with the crimes of the Black American in the 21st Century, where slavery has changed, it supposed to teach the real cause of slavery, not teach about how slavery helped the oppressed, it's just ridiculous, if you're a Conservative, I understand your illogical mind...
@saramill2097 Did Asians even exist in the slavery of the African American in the 17th Century, use your common sense, did they join the Civil War, fighting for the 14th Amendment, the answer is "No", study the reality of slavery in the US
@saramill2097FO
@saramill2097the topic is slave. Nothing about current crime.
@saramill2097Which is irrelevant to what DeathSantis is doing to Florida. 🙄
By now everything about this subject is supposed to be clear. Why do they keep denying what happened to the people of African descent???? They suffered a lot of terrible things.
Desantis is just now learning that Florida is an outlier, that his brand of racism doesn't fly in the rest of this country. An about face now isn't going to do him any good, we've all seen who he really is. My vote will go to a sane person, President Biden.
Joe Biden’s “handlers” thank you for their vote
@@thedearleader7054u mad bro?
Jajajajahahahaha
@@thedearleader7054 and your party is shrinking, Google it
@@mariyamwaniki my party can’t get any smaller. I’m a libertarian. I do not believe in a two party system
@@thedearleader7054 What is a libertarian?
So…. The guy who bullies the legislature to do exactly,what he wants, no matter how insane is now not in charge or unable to set these standards.
BS
This is what so-called Christianity has all ; do your research, it’s horrible.
"I didn't do it, and I wasn't involved in it." The perfect embodiment of GOP's "Personal Responsibility" slogan.
"I didn't do it." (I collected all of the parts, assembled the gun and loaded it, but someone that I gave it to pulled the trigger.)
@@blondhairblackstrat And given all the flack he gave to the Dept of Ed prior to this, one could say he ordered them to pull that trigger.
@@blondhairblackstrat Ha! Just one of those law-abiding "stand your ground" someones, no doubt!
Black ppl been loving and praise God through all this hate for over 400 years. TRULY THEY ARE GOD'S CHOSEN PPL
I didn't do it but highly educated people I put on that board did it based on factual material. I didn't light the match, but just threw the gas on the material. As an older white guy I can see with his anti woke mentality that he is a racist. The fight he took on Disney was flat out wrong. If people didn't like what Disney did they could vote with their pocketbooks but getting the government involved was wrong. Using our tax dollars to pick up migrants from Tx on a chartered flights to send them to NYC was a publicity stunt using our tax dollars. The bill that was bipartisan to fix the border Ron and republicans vetoed as it wasn't going to make Republicans look good to pass by Democrats. Immigration is the big platform of this party. No way they would let that pass and hurt their MAGA dictator.
"I didn't have any personal responsibility but let me tell you exactly what their plan is...."
Florida man hasn't quite reached the lie level of Trump, but he's closing in fast.
@@dave655467Obama is a black man. Trump isn't supposed to be orange. The right is so stupid. Now I see why they elect stupid politicians. Your a right wing scholar aren't you. 😂😂
@@dave655467 He is a black man. I lack what you're getting at here.
@@moha-tk5gz
He's a degenerate magat, nothing to see here
Ooohh lol
I live in Florida. Believe me, this fascist is much worse then the orange man.
Ron DeSantis sense of reality is so messed up…..FLORIDA is tired of his attacks on the citizens of this state. Stupid is as stupid does!!!! 🇺🇸💙⚖️🦉
+normahernandez5100, writes _"FLORIDA is tired of his attacks on the citizens of this state."_
I wish that was true.
They ain't that tried, they just reelected him.
Yeah....the dude won by double digits, soooo....
I feel for you. You’re surrounded by some angry white people. I don’t think he’s going to last much longer, a lot of people in Florida feel just like you.
I 'am 56 years old and didn't learn of the Tulsa race riot, until I seen it on HBO's the Watchmen. That's a disgrace to this country not to teach that because of the saying. ‘Those who do not learn history are doomed to repeat it.’
It’s still happening as we speak sadly. There’s still Americans who will vote for Trump regardless what facts you throw at them. Get the rest of sane Americans to vote at every turn for BLUE for the next decade.
There are so many more that blacks built that were likewise destroyed by white racist. Being a black person myself, I never knew of the horrible atrocities that happened to my people. They did this to my people and wonder why we are the way that we are. They’ve done it.
yup
Since I learned about it, I've bought two books. One had to do exclusively about Tulsa, the other about the sheer volume of attacks on the black populace all throughout the year of 1919.
So you're old enough to remember that time republicans had a kk klan leader run in their primary 🤔
Remember how republicans didn't care or reexamine why they attract klansman? That same klansman endorsed tump.
It is really shameful and ridiculous to see just how ignorant people like you can be to where the media and HBO are where you can learn about the history of your own country!!
Wow...I am amazed that HBO is your source.....what kind of secluded cave do you live in!!
“He didn’t do it and he wasn’t involved” just like he was at Guantanamo Bay.
EVERY reporter should FORCE him to name the TOP THREE benefits of being a slave - until he has to admit there are NONE.
It's HIS policy. HE should be made to defend it.
Fact
genetic drift and amazing athleticism? i know that's harsh and slavery was evil.
@@skippyhandleman1625casual racism
1- You are fed.
2- You sleep with a roof over your head.
3- You feel some satisfaction for completing tasks.
Its not much, and the cons certainly don't outweigh the benefits, but a case could be made that some slaves were better off than a person living in a tent on the streets of Los Angeles is today.
@@Sndyj457 it's not really. it is something that manifested out of it. genetic drift certainly did occur. I would suspect that isolated estates would have select men breeding with women. there was selective breeding back then. it's not a quantum leap to imagine it as a precipitating event (from people who largely were farmers in many circumstances). of course, you'll likely turn it into something out of a righteous and indignant angle. you clearly are morally superior to everyone.
When Chris Christie makes the most sense out of all the candidates, there is huge problem.
Lol it wasn't bad when Liz Chaney was the voice of concern among Republicans?
@@FlyingKoreanMinja They don’t consider her a republican anymore after going against Trump. Even though she’s about right wing conservative as it gets.
You can say that again
@@aclarkedesign The new GOP isn't about right-wing, they are about trump worship.
No, he appointed people to do it for him. What a coward.
Desantis is a micro manager. His fingerprints are allover this.
GREAT 👍
How's yours?
lol....did you expect him to sit down and write the curriculum for the schools? what planet to you live on....lol
Absolutely not, I also didn't expect my party, which includes the large hispanic community of South Florida, to vote for a guy just because of his last name, but they did. Now, what's your point, dear? P.S. unfortunately, I'm from planet Earth and yourself?
When I was a Freshman I. High school, there was a class called Minorities in America. It how sky opened my eyes, to how so many before us were mistreated. Being a granddaughter of a full blooded Cherokee, the lessons I learned were heartbreaking . It was hard to hear all about slavery, but I’m glad I took the class because it opened my eyes to know life was not perfect.
I think we need to continue to teach all history, we have come a long ways but still have so much more to do.
It is heartbreaking and now our world is in such a disarray, no ethics or morals .
😢😢😢💔💔💔🙏🙏🙏🙏
I am Caucasian, and grew up learning all about history of the USA.. and heard and watched some of the heinous things to those who were coloured , that include murder hangings, in full view of all to see on the news.
NOT ONCE OVER MY 7O ++ yrs did I ever feel uncomfortable about learning truth, rather, what I felt was it was time to make changes in how the world treated people.... I was brought up to see people has humans, not as colours or them.
I was glad when they took religion out of the schools (most religions profess to teach love and respect, yet propagate hate against "others" who are not of their faith, .....
When the schools removed religion, they continued to teach humanity,decency and equality,for all Which I do believe is a much better way. 🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦
I'm amazed that America still hasn't learned this.
Religion the so-called Christian religion is at the root of racism, fascism, authoritarianism, and any other ism. The Christian religion has a horrible background. It does not embrace the teachings of Christ, which is “God is LOVE” and loving your neighbor as yourself and love works no ill to his fellow man.
Caucassian? So, you're an asian?. Because you might want to check where mount caucassus located. Dont want to use that snake-oil salesman loon from 18th century, no?
Well 🇨🇦 Helped 🇬🇧 The whole reason the USA had slavery in the first place was because the British brought them here before we were a free country the only difference is Americans aren’t into the king and queen. The problem of slavery in the United States is 100% Englands fault. As soon as we became independent from England we fought a few more wars to end the Atlantic slave trade and finally end slavery in the south. When we sent our sailors to the Barbary coast to force the slave catchers into closing up shop in 1801 the English decided to supply the barbary pirates with weapons to fight against the abolition of the Atlantic slave trade. The coalition of USA Sweden and Sicily ended up bringing down the Atlantic slave trade with the help of greek mercenaries that were former barbary slaves themselves. The moral of the story is slavery in the United States is 100% 🇬🇧 fault historically speaking had we not gained our independence there would probably still be slavery here.
Florida is not America 🤷🏾♂️
I think it might be more true that teaching accurately about slavery makes southern racists feel uncomfortable. And yes I realize that not all Southerners are racist.
Too late usa. The whole world already knows about your history of slavery.
Yup cuz they were Sooo proud of it until now that being openly racist isn’t as cool anymore so now they’re trying to erase it smh
Right?
It's about rewriting for future children.
Unfortunately
Hm. And some in the same region love to be baselessly smug about it, too. Just sayin'...the USA doesn't bear that guilt alone.
He created the environment that made this possible.
And the legal framework.
Exactly.
How is this even legal??? This is a nightmare! He's got to be stopped!!!!!!
Every time Republicans tell us what they REALLY think, people need to pay attention.
Most of the Repug base is all in on fascism....seeing democracy as an inconvenience in the rear view mirror. Expect many Repug candidates in 24 to openly seek help from the Kremlin.
EXACTLY 💯
I agree
That's why I no longer tolerate Republicans in my life.
I don't.
At work I fire them.
At home, they're not welcome (including family).
To me - in 2023 - politics is about morals and ethics. Republicans have none of these things. After January 6th..... they're done in my world.
Desantis should not be in ANY leadership role. Vote him out. Florida is in terrible shape. Investigate prosecute convict and jail Desantis for human trafficking and miappropriantion of funds for the people of Florida
We were skilled human beings before slavery. If anything, America strove to diminish any and all skills that didn't directly support slave owners' agendas.
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The Black slaves built and operated the Kentucky and Tennessee whiskeys! Heck, they built and operated most everything! The White immigrants were not the skilled labor in America, in those days! Did you know they even built the White House? When bigots try to change the narrative of History, we research and find out even more Contributions from Black people!
Exactly 💯
The skills at farming crops with which Americans and Europeans were unfamiliar (rice, cotton, varieties of peas that grow in the heat, etc.) were a major reason why people from West Africa in particular were brought to the US. People in places like Senegal had been working with these crops already and knew how to take care of them. The slaves who were originally stolen already had skills; and you're exactly right that the ones that weren't beneficial were snuffed out generationally.
That'll be the truth. Same thing exactly happened up here (Canada) with the First Nations. Terrible pity, as their knowledge would have been enormously useful against the effects of climate change...
Shame on the people who voted for DeSantis. This is vile.
Especially, shame on the people who vote for him in the future. Sadly, many will. and they are even more disgusting than the ones who already have.
True
# We tried to tell them folks not to vote for him
You have to throw some shame on the dummies in his department of education as well for spewing that racist propaganda as well. It's not "sanitized history", it's not what happened at all.
@@dannyanderson2513yes we did but those folks are ignorant and you just can’t talk to’em😵💫
He is full of what makes the grass grow greener.
I'm a white millennial guy. It's so sad to hear white people upset about facing history. I didn't contribute past racism, but i sure feel ashamed of other white people's behavior toward people of different color.
I’m a 53 yo white female and what makes me MOST ashamed is even knowing the awful history of slavery in Americas past -we still have people in the world that think this way.
Look Biden is the democratic nominee I'm voting for Christy
@@Naneve1970Do you know about the barbery coast slavery?
@@Naneve1970You're really not very up on history either
And here's the irony of it all, as a 60s black American man, I can safely say that most of black America isn't walking around looking to hold the past over white America's head but my God, that was my ancestors and our history's holocaust. To downplay in anyway is highly offensive. Wisdom is the children's bread.
How can DeSantis run for president when even standing without a spine must be near impossible?
Biden is proof it’s possible. Joe also proved that you don’t even have to be sentient.
Scholars? Oh right for a republican being able to read and write makes one a scholar. I am guessing not one person of color amongst the scholars.
@@brailricegood thing putin pays you in crumbs, way more valuable than rubles.
@@brailriceat least Joe knows how to set up a profile picture, unlike every bot like you that supports trump
@@brailrice Judging by the fact that DeSantis' campaign is DOA and he is polling 30+ points under Turnip, you're apparently wrong.
Will Republicans next say that Holocaust victims who survived, gained valuable work skills in Auschwitz and other Concentration Camps?
those that survived were experts in surviving intense malnutrition!
Nah they will just say work actually freed them.
This macabre comparison is right on target. DeSatan would have been a good concentration camp commander for Adolf.
I’m going with yes.
You know they would and probably have said it in private clubs.
"You should talk to them about it. I wasn't a part of it". Wow! It was the department of education for his own administration which he is the leader. Even if he didn't sign off, he should take some leadership to try to do something instead of just saying "you should talk them about it". Imagine if anyone else who had responsibility over a team said that. And he wants to be President? I want a leader where the buck stops with that person. Not a person who pushes off responsibility if something if something bad happens.
Yes it is uncomfortable to hear about, but imagine those who had to live it! It is extremely unfortunate that it ever had to happen, but it is truth and needs to be truthfully taught so it NEVER happens again! Desantis is a horrible human being!
You are absolutely right Satan is a horrible individual just like the ancestors who did those horrible in human things to Black people. He is just as responsible today as they were then.
Gemzoey1313:Exactly!!!!
He’s an EVIL human being
But unfortunately not the only one on the extreme right.
It didn't "have to happen", of course, but the craving for personal power was slso humanity's primary impulse 300 years ago...so it did.
As a African American and a decedent of slavery meaning both of my parents grandparents parents was slaves, and thats not really a long time ago, this move is one of the most idiotic and disrespectful things in this era I've ever heard. And will not be allowed.
Fair enough.
Do you acknowledge any wrongdoing by blacks who sold slaves to the world? what about the blacks who continued to sell slaves out of Africa to South America AFTER slavery was banned by White men in the early 19th century?
Tell me how many black slaves were owned by blacks in America?
I'm fine with you arguing your point and can meet you on common ground. However, if you refuse to acknowledge history, the real history that hurts, then there's not much room to move any further.
Imagine how FL teachers feel! After covering 4 years of bloody battles in the Civil War & the 13th amendment, they have to say slavery was actually good.
@@Ralph_BeckmanGreat great grandparents, actually.
@@OhgodImtoosexyDo you really think there aren't people alive today whose parents and grandparents weren't slaves?
@@OhgodImtoosexyIt’s irrelevant, this curriculum is trash and a disgrace.
I'm a 62 year old white guy who learned about slavery decades ago in a school system that had no problem telling students --- black, white, whatever --- the truth about slavery, the Klan, etc. It didn't cause me to feel inferior and I got along fine with my black classmates. Nobody blamed us for what slavers did in past centuries.
As an African American- thank you for your understanding and compassion.
@@shermanfarves You're welcome. Skin color always seemed to me to be the stupidest reason to hate your neighbor. Come to think, are there any good ones?
I am black this comment touched me thanks for saying it straight
Don't forget about the brave white abolitionists. They really fought the good fight.
Being a white lady, born & raised in CA I was taught that inappropriate choices were made, and thankfully amended & we can learn from those inappropriate choices and make better decisions going forward on how we treat people.
PEOPLE.
I'm w/o words when I think about how we treat or don't our fellow HUMAN BEINGS! I have a family of squirrels in back yard that treat THEIR SAME SPECIES with RESPECT!!!
PLEASE REMEMBER & RESPECT!
Thank you for listening...
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“I didn’t do it” the most immature and childish thing he could say
He's lying, it was his idea and because of him, black history books were banned from the Floridian schools
Honestly, I don't think it's the kids that are uncomfortable with the facts if slavery, it's their parents. The same way some of the same parents are whining about books that aren't white straight and totally male centered.
@susanpallister8037 I don't think it's the kids that are uncomfortable with the facts of slavery, it's their parents.
BINGO! Thank you. I hadn't understood that.
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Chris Christie and vice president Elizabeth Cheney would be a ticket I could vote for.
And they probably haven’t read any of those books in the first place.
@@153haringespecially the ones that want it reinstated, as would make them look like AHs to their kids.
He says "I didn't do it"...and then proceeds to explain how it was done.
In Canada we had a senator who insisted on maintaining that the (Indian) Residential Schools did some good things for the Indigenous People of Canada. These are “third rail” issues. How stupid is DeSantis? 🙄
Didn't the con's back in 2007 say that indigenous people got enough money, when paul Martin was going to give indigenous people 8 billion dollars in budget and when Martin lost the election Steve harper gives it to his rich conservative buddies, by lowering the gst from 7 to 5 .
DeSatan is beyond stupid
I went to the Heard Museum in Phoenix Arizona which is a Native American museum and they have an exhibit on the residential schools. It was an eye opener and sad to see how the indigenous children went through.
We should also teach kids that the Holocaust benefited Jews because being in those concentration camps allowed them to lose weight
I'm going to use that, Good One!
Were they overweight?
The Holocaust didn't happen in America but they received reparations if they gave descendants of slaves in America reparations we would bankrupt corporations cuz they owe a lot more
@@turretplug6858yes, with gold in their teeth, luckily jews love giving away their gold when you douse them in acid, why do you think coca cola is so successful
Aye, it was a "character builder" for the small number that survived. This should be Duh Sadist's next phrase.
True leaders take responsibility for their staff and appointees
He threw them under the bus without hesitation 🤣
And like a true maga, DeSatan is deflecting and avoiding accountability! A regular trump mini me!
@@iamjackscompletelackofsurp9606 So much this^^^^
So do we now see what anti woke means
They "vas only following der orders". -Nuremberg 1945.
He’s destroying FL for nothing.
It doesn't make me uncomfortable learning true history, what makes me uncomfortable is finding out as an adult that I was never taught what really happened when I was in school!
It made me furious 😤
As another person in the comments said-peoples of ALL races and both sexes have been enslaved--it's horrible and still happening today. All the people shopping on the new foreign site buying $50 shoes for $4.99-they are enabling child labor, endentured servants= slave laborers. Shame on everyone for not using critical thinking skills. We HAVE to get the MAGA's out of our politics, out of any kind of leadership position!
Your grammar makes your comment hilarious @rokoroo
@@billwhite9703 Their grammar is fine. Keep grasping at those straws, Jethro.
@@billwhite9703 Your interpretation of my grammar makes your comment hilarious! So glad we could work together to make us both happier people!
He cant distance himself from this its already too late. Hes done.
He set all of this in motion. What a wicked man
And such a weak, pitiful answer
I thought he says he's a great manager. Why wasn't he on top of this?
He signed the law so he's responsible. nuff said
Florida not only has a teacher shortage, it has a humanity shortage
Depends on how rosy your view of human nature is. A decency shortage, certainly.
May be more aptly put as being a shortage of sanities, ignorance of truths & disregard of humanities. I recall a billboard sign placed on the outbound road, between what was designated as Black Town headed toward White Town. Which read: don't let your Black a*s be in White Town after sunset ! This was in the early 80s. I was a teenager then, but it was forever burned into my syche.
I think the *ADULTS* don't want to feel uncomfortable. They also want their kids to believe that the CONTINUED oppression and maltreatment of black people in this country is the fault of black people themselves. . As a black teacher in a predominantly white elementary school for 35 years WE discussed the good and bad in American history. No parent EVER complained and the kids NEVER felt that they were responsible for the INHUMANE treatment of slaves. They were, however, shocked at the reality of Americans being so unbelievably cruel and depraved toward ANY HUMAN BEINGS. AND THAT INCLUDED THE TREATMENT OF NATIVE AMERICANS AS WELL.
we havent changed much from history. cruelty never left. these "americans" wear it like a badge of honor.
When I arrived in this country I learned that US had one of the worst civil wars for the time period, the longest race-based oppression systems in recent history (both slavery and Jim Crow Era), that it is one of the few countries that managed to almost completely ethnically cleanse the area they occupied.
Not only that, but they maintain the 20 dollar bill with Andrew Jackson on it, still racially segregate but use financial strata of society to do it (they keep all the programs and means that amplify family financial differences to keep groups segregated), keep trying to add the whitewashing into school books -- and all of this well into the 21st century.
History cannot be erased at all. Politicians know that any country in the world came to existence through things that happened in the past whether it was good or bad. Things, bad and/or good happened in the past and we as human beings have to accept it. All of it made the history of any country
I’ll never forget sitting in class as a young black girl and learning about slavery. I remember having an out body experience as I was one of two black students. We moved on quickly and it was traumatizing. I can’t imagine what it would feel like to learn this from that lens and not feel completely outraged, insulted, embarrassed and overwhelmed.
Wouldn't it be much worse for young Jewish people sitting in class first learning about the Holocaust?
I'm "white" but I don't see this through the black blame white lens. My family immigrated to the U.S. from Italy half a century after the Civil War... and no family member of mine or myself has ever even once lived in any Southern "Confederate" state. Though Italians were definitely enslaved in Roman history.
We have no ties to slaveowners. Not even remotely, genetically, spiritually, etc. You can direct your rage and insult elsewhere!
@@c.rutherfordHuh? Why would it be worse when our grandparents were experiencing the massacres of Reconstruction in America around the same time that the Holocaust happened? And, if you've actually studied American history, you would know that American slavery wasn't comparable with the other forms of servitude that were common in that generation. It was utterly abominable because of how horribly they treated our ancestors...the forced SAs of both men and women to ruin theur ties to a specific country in Africa, the selling and exploitation of children, the overworking of female slaves to the point where their muscles separated from their bones, using children as foot warmers, performing surgeries on women without anesthesia. American slavery was not..just slavery.
I was actually thinking about what that must feel like because I remember sitting next to my best friend who was the only black kid in the class and I remember the entire class looking back at him when we were being taught about slavery. I didn’t realize it at the time but that had to be incredibly tough on him. I’m sorry you had to experience that.
@c.rutherford ... u r deflecting, any human with natural human emotions should be disgusted at the history of the US, and participating nations that took part in the slave trade and reconstruction, the rise of the klan and the continual evil perpetrated by those who lack respect for all lives, just as we r disgusted with the history of the holocaust. Neither was better or worse, both were traumatizing for those victims & their descendants.
@@c.rutherfordshut up.
This reminds me of a short period of time -- in the early 80s/Reagan years - when young people were being taught that the Civil War wasn't about slavery but was about states' rights. It wasn't until I got to college that I first heard my professors in the history classes pronounce the b.s. of that theory. I remember one professor saying if it heard that nonsense out of anyone in the class, it was an automatic "F" for the student for the semester. I was absolutely delighted. Yet, here we are again - back to the Republicans trying to rewrite history. I'm so disgusted and so sick of it.
Republicans have been covering up deleting line about black history, which is American history for a long time
I had a professor who spouted the “states rights” nonsense when I was in college.
To be fair, it was both. It was about states' rights... to own slaves.
Yeah I remember hearing that too in high school lol. It's so wild. When I went to college is when I learned differently. Which truly makes me really consider the fact that the feds have steadily reduced education funding, thereby creating a growing financial barrier to attending to college. I know it's entering "tin foil hat" territory but I can't help but notice that just as we collectively became more educated, they started gutting education spending. Then starting in the bush administration, suddenly the way we are taught in schools started changing. This is just a continuation of a 15+ year movement to alter class content.
@@Hawk7886 the foundation of the states' rights argument was based on slavery though. Slave states knew that if it was banned, their primary source of income would be drastically reduced, thereby giving the federal gov't a stronger foothold. Today, former slave states rely heavily on funding given by the federal government, which comes with strings attached. It should come as no surprise that former slave states consistently have some of the highest rates of poverty in the US by pop size. Then of course, you have to add in the fact that they were in absolute fear of the reality that former slaves would be able to participate in the democratic process, thereby upsetting the balance of political power. Wouldn't you be quaking in your boots if the very people you oppressed suddenly can kick you out of power? Today, the US farming industry relies heaaavvvviillly on labor from undocumented immigrants, which is the equivalent to slavery because of how low the wages are and the lack of benefits. If they paid real wages, strawberries would be $10+ rather than $4 (Ga prices). Funny enough southern GOP states were very strong advocates against DACA and other methods of legitimizing undocumented immigrants. Why? Because of the very same reasons they fought against banning slavery. The more you know.
I would correct Eugene by saying kid's PARENTS are the ones who feel uncomfortable. Why don't they do a poll of kids and ask them what they think, instead of just assuming we know? Kids are not nearly as stupid as parents seem to think they are.
As a child (I’m very white a blonde blue eyed German from WI) learning about slavery and we even watched Roots …I’m 51…..it NEVER made me feel uncomfortable whatsoever….it made me feel….SHOCKED…..DISGUSTED…..and showed me how rotten and disgusting humans can be. It NEVER made me feel like somehow “I” or even “my people” did this,….for one my German family came over in 1880 & came directly to WI…poor farmers…..so anyhow……sorry I’ve never met any white person against slavery who it made uncomfortable……I think the right makes that t makes us all feel all kinds of horrifying emotions…..
But republicans can’t shout “ what about the children?!” If the kids are wanting to learn real history. That those parents are says really is “ the truth makes me uncomfortable so I’m going to foist that upon my children and ruin any chance they have at normal school education that work for YEARS”
I said the exact same thing, The PARENTS are uncomfortable. They kids are fine!
If I sit on a tack, I am uncomfortable. Removing myself from sitting on the tack and watching that I don't do it next time is positive learning. Republicans pretending discomfort is bad is pure idiocy.
Exactly! In growing up I heard stories of wealthy ancestors who owned plantations. An aunt followed it back and there are records of them owning slaves. It doesn't make me uncomfortable. I find it deplorable, but I don't want the truth of their lives erased.
Wasn't there a Simpson's episode where Bart kept saying, "I didn't do it?"
Does DeSantis think he's as revered as Bart Simpson?
DeSantis is a joke. A dangerous joke.
I didn’t do it. Nobody saw me doing it. You can’t prove anything.
Duh-Santis response: "Doh!"
Wait for him to be sued by Disney over use of their catchphrase since they own The Simpsons now
He is a good Trump replacement....blame others for all errors and take credit for all successes
@@A_Really_Nice_Guy Well, hypothetically speaking.
@@KomradeKrusher He basically made up a fake "woke bogeyman" and pretends that he beats it lol.
what successes? there aren't any!
Slavery benefited the slave masters. This was DeMoron's idea.
And you had all sorts of slave masters throughout history, black masters, white masters, asian masters, anglo-saxon masters. It just depends in the geographical time that you want to focus
@@hegeliankid1226
NONE of that matters, fool. You seriously gonna say slavery is a good thing?
@@hegeliankid1226 Are people wanting AMERICAN history taught, arguing those points? What relevance does that have to the attempt to portray America's history of slavery as something positive?
I didn’t benefit them, we’re coming for their children.
@@Marvellous132 I’m not arguing against any of the extremist/reductionists sides; the right thinks slavery is simply gone and thing of the past while the left in a condescending way wants to focus on a victimization of blacks against the evil of whites. Both too simple, responding to the dual political environment that serves capital and its new forms of slavery. In my opinion, if you really want to teach about slavery in the Americas, you should teach cultural anthropology(lighter than evolutive anthropology) and within-this broad study of humans you can focus on the different power shifts on the exchange of humans as a living commodity and understand better where did all come from and how and why blacks became the focus of this market at the moment westerners started their expansionist global campaign.
By the time he’s done there will be like 6 teachers left in the entire state.
Slavery didn't benefit anyone but the slave master and those who enforce this Act
That's not really true. Slavery enriched the entire country. Because of the South's agrarian culture, the southern states didn't have the population of white laborers needed to support major industry. So unable to refine their own agricultural products, they sold them to refineries in the North. . Hundreds of thousands of white men worked in them and provided for their wives and children by processing agricultural products planted, maintained, and harvested by black slaves.
Thus, millions of whites in the North were supported by the cotton industries in the northern states. And the taxes produced by overseas sales, enriched the nation. In the 1800s, the cotton industry became to the US as the oil industry is to Saudi Arabia. It was that mass influx of cash that fueled industrialization and built the US navy with which he US established global power.
@@heirofthenazareen3812with the exception of the indigenous population and the descendants of the enslaved.
Technically not true slavery. hilt America Any corporation based in the US can attribute it’s success to slavery The conquest of the land from its native inhabitants can be credited to the Gatling gun Nothing to be proud of in either case😢 AND some of us are still 😡 angry and justifiably so😺
@@andreabrown4541 Agreed. Those who suffered most still get only crumbs from the American table.
@@heirofthenazareen3812……are you serious? Just cause hitler did “wonders” for the German economy doesn’t mean he was good! We are STILL SEEING THE ADVERSE EFFECTS OF SLAVERY TO THIS DAY IT WAS NOT A NET GOOD!!!!!
“Scholars” and “Florida Board of Education” don’t belong in the same sentence
So true. Several of their examples of someone who "benefited" from slavery were never slaves - they were born as freemen. These are racist, partisan hacks, not scholars.
Amazing how Republicans take credit for everything good (even if the opposed it) and run away from all the bad they are responsible for!
So, we’re supposed to think of slavery not as a soul-crushing evil, so wasteful of human potential, but as a sort of Antebellum community college? One wonders why Blacks today so resent the fact that their ancestors were granted this unique opportunity!
And it’s amazing that since it was so “beneficial”, no white people back then jumped at the opportunity. Hmm, I wonder why 🙄
Doesn't anyone understand, if a person keeps picking at the scab, covering a deep cut, not only will it take longer to heal, they will have a bigger and uglier scar for them to look at and relive an experience that was either caused by someone else or their own recklessness?
"I am not responsible for the mean dog I raised and trained and then released on my neighborhood. How was I to know it would attack my neighbor's kids?" 😡