are your thoughts and/or feelings on the Board of Education in Florida teaching slavery had its benefits for Black people?

“When it comes to the Board of Education in Florida saying that slavery benefited Black people or that Black people learned skills is ludicrous. How can someone benefit from trauma that was enacted on them for generations? It’s revisionist history. It’s retelling the story of America from the perspective of an oppressor and I’m not with that.”

Why would I want to teach the benefits of slavery to my own people especially when they know what slavery is all about. This country was built on the backs of slaves. [White people] know about it. They just don’t want to talk about it because they feel bad about it and they want to duck and hide.

“I think that it should not be taught because it perpetuates the fact that if it wasn’t for slavery we would not have been able to manage on our own.

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“It is very irresponsible of the state of Florida to try to change the narrative as far as slavery, saying it was a benefit to the African-American community. I definitely do not think it was a benefit, nor was it intended to be a benefit. I think the outcome is far too negative and teaching our young people that it was positive would be very reckless.”

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