Florida Wanted "Opposing Viewpoints" on Slavery in A.P. African American Studies Course

[Eugene]

Source: New Republic

Florida Wanted “Opposing Viewpoints” on Slavery in A.P. African American Studies Course

Ella Sherman
Tue, August 29, 2023 at 5:34 PM EDT·1 min read

Florida Governor Ron DeSantis’s administration officials opposed the College Board’s new Advanced Placement African American studies course due to its lack of “opposing viewpoints” on slavery.

A new report from the Miami Herald sheds more context on Florida’s fight against the College Board and Black history specifically.

According to internal state comments, the reviewers believed the A.P. course’s depiction of chattel slavery did not promote both sides of history. One lesson on how Europeans benefited from trading enslaved people “may lead to a viewpoint of an ‘oppressor vs. oppressed’ based solely on race or ethnicity,” reviewers noted.

The DeSantis administration successfully got the College Board to water down its A.P. African American studies course earlier this year. The new curriculum cut lessons on critical race theory, reparations, Black Lives Matter, and several prominent queer Black writers.

Florida officials’ objection to the lack of “opposing viewpoints” on slavery occurred numerous times and was not previously reported.

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Read more: https://news.yahoo.com/florida-wanted-opposing-viewpoints-slavery-213411147.html

[byronius]

1. Racist trash digging their way to hell where they belong.

Florida will never recover.

[underpants]

2. Love this quote

“There is no other perspective on slavery other than it was brutal,” Mary Pattillo, a sociology professor and the department chair of Black Studies at Northwestern University, told the Miami Herald. “It was exploitative, it dehumanized Black people, it expropriated their labor and wealth for generations to come.”

[BlueIn_W_Pa]

3. "opposing view" ?!?!?

What the actual eff....

[4lbs]

4. Maybe they were looking for sponsorship from Carnival Cruises.

"Hey, these slaves came to America on essentially a Carnival Cruise. They had a really good time on the boat.

You can experience this awesomeness too.

Carnival Cruises.

Unshackle yourself, and be a slave to luxury."

[BlueIn_W_Pa]

9. lol, gave a chuckle this morning :)

[Skittles]

13. what they mean is, WHAT RACISTS THINK

FUCK these bigots

[LastLiberal in PalmSprings]

5. Next they'll want to include the beneficial side effects of the Holocaust.

I'm sure they can name a dozen or so.

How many decades is it going to take to undo all the damage the Banana Republican Party is doing to our country? Is there some way we can build a huge wall around Kansas and herd all the MAGAts, fundamentalists, neo-nazis, white supremists, anti-vaxxers, anti-government, anti-democracy, climate deniers, stolen election believers, the rabid gun nuts, mimes, etc. into the enclosure? (If we're rounding up every dangerous group, mimes should be at the top of the list.) Don't forget Clarence Thomas, Gorsuch and Alito. And of course, TFG. Then add 500 AR-15s and a million rounds of ammunition and let them have at it.

We could probably show the results on PPV.

[4lbs]

6. Maybe they'll try to label it as a summer camp full of nice

athletics geared toward a working weight loss regimen.

[Solly Mack]

7. Damn

[electric_blue68]

8. Oh, just "great". 😑🙄😮 It'd be laughibly pathetic, if it wasn't so disgusting.

[enigmania]

10. They like people

that weren't enslaved.

[twodogsbarking]

11. I'll give you an opposing view. You are a piece of shit Ron.

[dalton99a]

12. As in, "How slave owners suffered greatly"