Florida Board of Education doubles down on whitewashing black history

[vernonbird]

@jlw

The Florida Board of Ed has taken an incredibly shameful and awful step in re-writing US History

Not a bit surprising, though.

@jlw

with their insistence on portraying black people as somehow beneficiaries of slavery,

Well, sure… because civilization was created by whites. Those older ones don’t count, because they ain’t white.

@jlw

and deserving of the inhumanity.

That’s because they’re not white, and are therefore, less than human.
Kinda like women…

@jlw

Teaching these blatant lies only serves to deepen a divide that hurts everyone.

Division is the point; white supremecists on one side, those evil Others on another.
Desantis wants to make Florida a Sundown State, from all indications.

I have a feeling there will be issues when harvest time rolls around.

[sylvia]

Would love to oblige in the voting out the GOP-department; sadly the state legislature has been heavily gerrymandered by the GOP. We’ll do the best we can!

[smulder]

@jlw

a political agenda guaranteed to set good people against one another

… “good people on both sides” again