Rather than offer its students courses that provide a full and honest accounting of the past, keishablain writes, Florida is choosing to dishonestly keep its students ignorant of history
after claiming that it lacked educational value.
The apologist framing of slavery as providing some “personal benefit” to those who were enslaved is appalling and deeply offensive. . It was a brutal and exploitative economic and labor system, which for 250 years relegated Black people to nothing more than property. The 1921 Tulsa massacre, one of the historical developments highlighted in the new standards, underscores the dangers of conflating white people launching attacks against Black communities with Black people protecting themselves from white people attacking them. The “against and by” language in the new guidelines implies that thewas the result of African American violence, but the historical record reveals that it was one of many examples of white supremacist mob violence.
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