The Florida Board of Education approved a new set of standards for how Black history should be taught in the state’s public schools, sparking criticism from education and civil rights advocates who said students should be allowed to learn the “full truth” of American history.

    • @TaintLord9000
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      322 years ago

      My mom would talk like this; she had the displeasure of being raised by people that had Klan ties and was never fully deprogrammed. Absolutely terrifying.

      • I Cast Fist
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        222 years ago

        And, unlike interns, they had access to free meals and a free sleeping place! Times sure were better back then!

        /s

      • fearout
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        2 years ago

        Unpaid internship is also pretty fucked up though (unless there’s a lot of mentorship involved)

    • Flying Squid
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      112 years ago

      I had a kindergarten teacher lie to us that her grandfather had a slave and he liked being a slave. I don’t even know why she did that, but this reminds me of it. Just straight up bullshit about slavery.

      • @captainlezbian
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        82 years ago

        She probably did it because it’s a really comfortable thing to believe, but it’s obviously bullshit so she just kept saying it to keep believing it

        • Flying Squid
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          22 years ago

          Yeah, but also it was the 1980s, so I don’t think it was even possible even if she was really old (she seemed like she was, but I was 5).

    • kitonthenet
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      52 years ago

      Oh so it’s not just that activists and critics read that as saying “slavery was beneficial,” that’s just the plain reading of the law