Florida Teachers Now Required To Tell Students That Slavery Was Pretty Good

The school year is about to start in the state of Florida, and teachers will have something new to tell their students this year. Thanks to a new decision by the state's Republican-controlled Department of Education, teachers will now be REQUIRED to teach students that slavery was actually beneficial to black people because of all the cool skills they learned. Nevermind that we stripped these people of their basic humanity and ripped them from another continent, apparently that part isn't as important. Farron Cousins explains what's happening.

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The state of Florida has decided that students do in fact, need to be taught about slavery throughout Florida, which, hey, that's great. Right? For a while there kind of looked like they weren't going to even let teachers talk about slavery in history classes throughout Florida. So technically a win, I guess until, of course, you look at this new decree from the Florida Department of Education that says, okay, middle school teachers, you can in fact teach students about slavery. But you also are now legally required to tell students how awesome slavery was for the slaves. I mean, after all, the state says, they did learn some pretty cool skills while being slaves, while being technically property owned by other human beings. But they learned some cool things that, that you probably helped them, you know, later on in, in life if, if they lived long enough to be freed.

Um, but those are good skills, right? You know, farming, cooking, housekeeping. Yeah. Hey, that's useful for a slave ripped from their home continent, dragged against the ocean across their will, and then sold for profit. Yeah, you learn some cool things. The state of Florida is now legally required to teach students. Let me read this from the CNN report. The new standards require instruction for middle school students to include how slaves develop skills, which in some instances could be applied for their personal benefit. A document listing the standards and posted in the Florida Department of Education website said, when high school students learn about events such as the 1920 Ocoee massacre, the new rules require that instruction include acts of violence perpetrated against and by African-Americans.

Now, if you're not familiar with the 1920 Ocoee massacre, let me go ahead and tell you what happened. You had two black residents in Riverside, Florida. 1922, black residents went to cast their vote as they were legally allowed to do. The white poll worker said, nah, get the hell outta here. You're not allowed to vote. And I'm sure they probably used some charged language there to two men were legally allowed to vote, but it wasn't enough that the white poll workers said, hell no. Get outta here. Because later on the KKK showed up, massacred dozens of residents in this predominantly black town, and burned dozens of homes to the ground. That's what the Ocoee massacre was. White supremacists murdering black people for trying to vote. And now the state of Florida says, if you talk about it at all, you

Have to say that black people did it to black people. That, that, that's, that's, that's not even close to reality. But that is what our kids are gonna be taught in our public schools. The public schools that my children attend here in the state of Florida, the public schools, where my wife is an educator, she is now legally required to talk about to, to say this if she teaches it at all. Th this is, this is utter insanity. This is an absolute, quite literal whitewashing of American history. Slaves learned skills for their personal benefit. Slaves didn't have personal benefit. They were in fact property of white people. They didn't get to go out and just have fun and do their own kind of thing all the time, right? They didn't have side hustles where, Hey, yeah, I've learned these skills as a slave, but I'm also running my own farm where I'm making a huge profit. That's not a thing. Florida has been solidly controlled by Republicans for over 20 years. These Republicans that run this state need people to be stupid because if the Republican Party runs out of stupid people, then there's nobody left to vote for the Republican party. That's why they're destroying education here in the state of Florida, so that everybody stays stupid so that everybody stays Republican.