Don't deceive: Harris Florida slavery 'benefit' attack ignores context
It's essential that students learn about Florida's ugly history. But the new social studies standards don't gloss over the damning facts.
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It's essential that students learn about Florida's ugly history. But the new social studies standards don't gloss over the damning facts.
It's essential that students learn about Florida's ugly history. But the new social studies standards don't gloss over the damning facts.
It is sheer poisonous demagoguery to claim, as Harris does, that making students aware of the range of skills many Black people mastered while enslaved is "replac[ing] history with lies."
Merriam-Webster’s Dictionary defines racism as, "Racism, noun, a belief that race is a fundamental determinant of human traits and capacities and that racial differences produce an inherent …
Racism, both systemic and societal, has been a problem in this country for centuries. In many ways it was societal racism, the general belief in the inferiority of certain races, that led to many of the racist laws or systemic racism. To me, this leads to a Catch-22. How do you get rid of one withou