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THE NEW RIGHT IS WRONG
Blacks Should Be Grateful for the Skills They Learned as Slaves
Florida educators rewrite history so white folks don’t feel bad about slavery
A recent update to Florida’s school curricula for middle school children aims to focus on the skills slaves were taught as a way of showing how helpful slavery was to the Black people taken by force from their homelands, chained and beaten into submission, and then sold to white people as free labor.
You see, slaves had mad skills. Didn’t you know? They include cotton picking — such a valuable skill for people who didn’t own cotton fields.
But they also learned other things. They learned to suffer in silence when their children were taken from them and sold to people they would never meet and who would prevent them from ever seeing their children again. They learned the skills necessary to properly care for the white people who could beat them to death on a whim.
But the biggest lesson they learned is that nothing they learned would help them. Nothing they learned would give them the right to name their children after themselves and pass down their legacy. Nothing they learned gave them the right to choose their vocation. Nothing they learned allowed them to flourish…
