Remember these racist bigots are a minority. They have been so since they lost the war to keep black people as property. Think about what the reporting says the majority turned out against this, yet the Board of education did it anyway. Der DeathSantis handpicked board. Think of what he would do if president. They are driven white supremacists who want real history erased and a fake nice version of slavery taught instead. Ask why? What is the gain, to not feel guilty? That is stupid, no current white person should feel guilty of racism unless they are promoting / practicing racism. And that is the point. These white people want to keep practicing racism, and a lot of them want to make it worse by returning to a time before the civil rights act that gave people of color a voice and a right to some equality in the country that the constitution says they are equal citizens. Seriously scary how deeply racism is in the red states and especially Florida and Texas.
As a side note when we first got to Florida we had a black friend visit us. I mention the skin color only because when we all went out to eat, the waitress at the restaurant refused to take his order, instead asking both Ron and then myself what the other (pointing to our friend) wanted to eat. This was in 1994. We complained but our friend who was experienced in the south did not want us to make a scene, so we agreed when management only offered to change the waitress. It was the first time I had experienced / seen that, and it really stuck in my mind. Totally horrible any person had to go through that dehumanizing experience that our friend did. I can not image how it makes one feel to be treated that way in front of friends. Hugs
The Tallahassee Democrat reports:
The Florida Board of Education approved a new curriculum for African American history on Wednesday, but not without pushback.
After more than an hour of public comment, with a majority of speakers opposed, the board voted unanimously to approve the social studies standards for African American history for kindergarten through 12th grades. Opponents say the curriculum leaves out Florida’s role in slavery and the oppression of African Americans, victim blames Black communities and uses outdated language.
In a letter to board member Ben Gibson, a group of 11 organizations, including the NAACP and the Florida Education Association, criticized the state for omitting or rewriting “key historical facts about the Black experience.”
The Washington Post reports:
More than a dozen speakers at Wednesday’s board meeting opposed the changes, including state Sen. Geraldine Thompson (D), who helped pass a law in 2020 that requires schools to teach lessons about the Ocoee Massacre. The incident in 1920 began when several Black residents attempted to vote, and ended with as many as 60 people dead, making it the deadliest instance of Election Day violence in U.S. history.
Thompson said the new curriculum “suggests that the massacre was sparked by violence from African Americans. That’s blaming the victims. ” State Rep. Anna Eskamani (D) said she was concerned about inaccuracies in the new standards, including instructing that enslaved people “developed skills” that could be helpful. “That is inaccurate and a scary standard for us to establish,” she said.
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You know, I can remember learning about these things. I would feel bad for people, but also relieved that (it appeared) we knew/were learning better. In high school we got one whale of a lesson about the Nazis’s holocaust including a couple of their own filmstrips of their own atrocities. It was nauseating, but I didn’t feel bad that I had a German surname, just relieved that (it appeared) again, we’d learned better.
Now, these days, bigotry often makes me want to shave off my skin. Not because of the past, but because of the present. And they’re working hard to erase history so they can repeat it. For what other reason would they want to erase history?
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Hello Ali. I am glad you got a good education, it is something I missed out on. I had to learn a lot of stuff on my own. I was shocked by a lot I did find out about the racist past and how black people were treated. I think another reason the right wants to erase the effects of slavery is because they want to blame people of color for their economic and social position today. It is clear that the family opportunities available to white people since the end of World War 2 were not available to POC. They couldn’t build generational wealth to pass down to their children. That is why affirmative action was so important. Most white kids going to college have parents who can afford to get the children tutors and test taking pre classes. Plus white kids who go to majority white schools are better funded and generally have better educational outcomes. Black families normally don’t have that ability. Racists point to the disparity in family income between whites and blacks to say that blacks are stupid or lazy, and responsible for the situation they are in. CRT / institutionalized racism is a real problem that the racists want to pretend doesn’t exist. The black areas are normally underrepresented politically, under funded compared to other neighborhoods, and treated differently that white communities in that same area. I have seen that play out in WBP where the white side of the main road tried to keep the minority children on the other side from coming to our homes for Halloween. They announced our side would hold the tricker treating the evening before. Needless to say we did not do so, instead we did both evenings pissing off our white supremacist neighbors while making a lot of kids very happy. Hugs
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I understand that all and agree, and also applaud 2 trick or treat nights!!
I remain astounded that I received the public education I did, and it was in Springfield, MO, even. We didn’t get the Rosewood massacre, but looking back, we got a lot, and had access to more through the bookmobile, later the jr. hi and high school libraries. My grandpa was principal of a Lutheran school in St. Louis, and would give me old textbooks since I read so much as a child. Even parochial schools got real history, etc. It’s amazing it ever happened, I guess. But all I meant was, sure people feel bad about history, but I don’t get feeling so bad that they can’t handle learning it. I think it’s just that they’re still bigots themselves, and don’t want to realize that they’re the same as the people who perpetrated atrocities.
I’d think they’d want to be separate from that, but who knows. Right now there’s a whole thing happening in my little hometown NewsCow about Aldean’s ignorant song. Most of the commenters didn’t even read the article, but still spewed bigoted, ignorant crap. Ah, well. I hate when I learn more about people than I ever wanted to know.
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Thank you Michael. Hugs
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