In July, the Florida Department of Education released new K-12 curriculum guidelines that say 'slaves developed skills...for their personal benefit.'
Teachers, students, community members and Teamsters marched to Miami-Dade school board headquarters on Wednesday to protest Florida's recently enacted Black history standards in the statewide curriculum.in July, ahead of the upcoming school year, noting the change on the department's website which states:"Instruction includes how slaves developed skills which, in some instances, could be applied for their personal benefit.
A school bus is shown parked at a depot on April 19, 2023, in Pembroke Pines, Florida. A march was organized on Wednesday in Miami-Dade County to protest the state's recently enacted K-12 curriculum guidelines regarding Black slavery and history.They also suggest that teaching incidents of mass racial violence against African Americans, like the 1920 Ocoee massacre for example, should be taught in the context of"acts of violence perpetrated against and by African Americans.
"The phrase that they're saying that there were 'benefits' that happened to enslaved people is just disgusting," protester Jonathan Gartrelle told WPLG."It denigrates the experience of 50 million enslaved Africans that were destroyed and brutally tortured and trafficked. And it tries to soften and whitewash history."
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