Posted on Jul 22, 2023
Benefited from slavery? Critics say some of the state’s examples were never even slaves.
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On Saturday American Federation of Teachers President Randi Weingarten and her colleague Leo Casey, a retired teacher from Brooklyn’s Clara Barton High School, issued a joint statement.
“This is disgusting and willfully ahistorical,” it said. “Normally publishing a grievously racist notion like ‘slaves benefited from slavery’ would be considered an embarrassment and quickly withdrawn. But not for Gov. Ron DeSantis of Florida, where doubling down on this noxious claim is seen as a badge of honor.”
Several critics argued that nearly half of the 16 historic figures highlighted by the state were never enslaved. Others, who did spend time in slavery, did not gain their skills from their servitude.
“This is disgusting and willfully ahistorical,” it said. “Normally publishing a grievously racist notion like ‘slaves benefited from slavery’ would be considered an embarrassment and quickly withdrawn. But not for Gov. Ron DeSantis of Florida, where doubling down on this noxious claim is seen as a badge of honor.”
Several critics argued that nearly half of the 16 historic figures highlighted by the state were never enslaved. Others, who did spend time in slavery, did not gain their skills from their servitude.
Benefited from slavery? Critics say some of the state’s examples were never even slaves.
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State of Florida
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American History
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The premise is that slaves, through fortitude and ingenuity, developed skills despite. Those skills slavery that benefited them. One of the things that rankles me is nobody Mentions Vivian Thomas! Thomas developed a surgical proceeding to correct “blue baby syndrome” now called tetralogy of Fellot. Thomas wanted to be a doctor but being Black in the middle of the depression was a terrible. Thomas became the chief lab officer for Dr Blalock. When Thomas preformed his surgery on a dog and when Dr Blalock saw it he said ,”It is like something God made.”
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