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Analysis | Note to Florida and DeSantis: Enslaved Africans were already skilled (www.washingtonpost.com)
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Ron DeSantis defended Florida’s controversial rules, which will require teaching that enslaved Africans “developed skills” that “could be applied for their personal benefit.”

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Developed skills or not, slaves were treated horribly.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Well maybe if they had picked themselves up by the bootstraps, saved more of their income, stopped buying chai lattes and avocado toast every day for lunch, and ~~had daddy give them a million dollars~~ worked really hard to earn their cash, they could have bought their freedom.