Protesters march through Miami to object to Florida's Black history teaching standards

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Protesters march through Miami to object to Florida’s Black history teaching standards

The new curriculum standards require lessons that say enslaved people “developed skills which, in some instances, could be applied for their personal benefit.”

https://apnews.com/article/florida-black-history-desantis-race-d2eb034764722a98f371881dd40ca2ce

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Aug. 16, 2023, 2:25 PM EDT / Source: The Associated Press
By The Associated Press

Dozens of teachers, students and labor leaders marched to a Miami school district headquarters Wednesday to protest Florida’s new standards for teaching Black history, which have come under intense criticism for what they say about slavery.

The protesters who marched to the School Board of Miami-Dade County objected to new curriculum standards that, among other things, require teachers to instruct middle school students that enslaved people “developed skills which, in some instances, could be applied for their personal benefit.”

Gov. Ron DeSantis, who is seeking the 2024 GOP presidential nomination, has repeatedly defended the new language while insisting that his critics, including Vice President Kamala Harris and two leading Black Republicans in Congress, are intentionally misinterpreting one line of the sweeping curriculum.

“These new state standards that DeSantis has come up with will not be tolerated in our schools. We will not let our children be taught that slaves benefited from their slavery. That’s a lie,” said march organizer Marvin Dunn, a professor emeritus of psychology at Florida International University.

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[lindysalsagal]

1. "Dozens"? Not, hundreds? That's why deathsantis wins.

They've given up.

[maxsolomon]

4. It could have been 10,000

and it wouldn't change FL policy.

DeSantis has power and he's using it. The only check on him will be when he stands for re-election.

[ExWhoDoesntCare]

5. It could have been a million

And nothing would have changed. They have the power, and they don't care if you march. They have the power, and marching won't take it from them one bloody bit. What part of that are people too stupid to get?

So of course sane people aren't interesting in stupid bloody marching, BECAUSE IT DOES BUGGER ALL TO CHANGE ANYTHING!

The sooner the left stops relying on the same boring methods of protest that hasn't worked in over half a century, the better. They even recycle the same boring songs. Bloody hell, you can't even be arsed to get some new material, and you think people will take what you say seriously?

Pull the other one!

Rage Against the Machine was right: "So wave your fist and march around but don't take what you need." It's a condemnation on the stupid bloody marching addicts for not getting that you don't get power from marching. You get power by taking it from the powerful.

DUH.

[sinkingfeeling]

2. Is there a link to this article?

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

3. Here

https://apnews.com/article/florida-black-history-desantis-race-d2eb034764722a98f371881dd40ca2ce