"DeSantis doubles down on claim that some Blacks benefited from slavery"
Check this infographic to understand how the MAGA Republican attempt to Black History resembles what British slave traders tried over 200 years ago. It's all on display at the London Docklands Museum.
The collusion between business interests and politicians ready to do their bidding
The cruel barbarity inflicted on workers
Forced family separations
Sexual violence against women
How women led the campaign to abolish slavery
The impact of boycotts to bring about change
Developing modern day campaign tactics
Failed whitewashing attempts
GOP Whitewashing: Black people benefited from being enslaved
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis is intensifying his efforts to de-emphasize racism in his state’s public school curriculum by arguing that some Black people benefited from being enslaved and defending his state’s new African American history standards that civil rights leaders and scholars say misrepresents centuries of U.S. reality.
“They’re probably going to show that some of the folks that eventually parlayed, you know, being a blacksmith into doing things later in life,” DeSantis said on Friday in response to reporters’ questions while standing in front of a nearly all-White crowd of supporters.
DeSantis, however, is continuing to defend Florida’s new curriculum, which covers a broad range of topics and includes the assertion for middle school instruction that “slaves developed skills which, in some instances, could be applied for their personal benefit.” - Washington Post
Assault on Black History
V.P. Kamala Harris emphasized that slavery involved rape, torture and “some of the worst examples of depriving people of humanity in our world. Let’s really dissect what he’s saying here,” she said. “He’s saying that to be ripped away from your homelands and brought to another country against your will, or to be born into the atrocity of the dehumanizing institution that was slavery, that those horrors are some way somehow outweighed by the benefit that you get a trade. Are you kidding me?”
Freedom to learn the truth
"Whatever our color, background, or zip code, we want our children to have an education that imparts honesty about who we are, integrity in how we treat others, and freedom to pursue our dreams. But for years, certain politicians have denied some children the resources needed for a quality education based on what they look like or where they live.
Now those politicians want to censor the truth of our history, passing laws to ban learning from the mistakes of our past and erase leaders like Martin Luther King, Jr. who stood up to racism and changed our country for the better. By joining together and speaking up at school board meetings, contacting our elected leaders, and voting to fully fund our schools, we can make this a country where every child has the freedom to learn, grow and thrive." - We Make The Future
Museum of London Docklands
Discover how the trade in enslaved Africans and sugar shaped London. The museum’s building is central to this story. It was built at the time of the transatlantic slave trade, to store the sugar from the West Indian plantations where enslaved men, women and children worked. Visit the museum.
TakeAway: Don't fall for MAGA Republicans trying to whitewash their own racism and Black History.
Deepak
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