Florida To Indoctrinate Its Students That Slavery Benefitted Black People

The year before he was elected President, Abraham Lincoln said, "I think Slavery is wrong, morally, and politically."

However, in Ron DeSantis' Florida, schoolchildren will be told slavery was a "personal benefit" because they "developed skills."

I shudder to think how the Florida Board of Education plans to approach The Holocaust.

In December 1848, an editorial appeared in Frederick Douglass' North Star which began with this sentence, "This institution of slavery is an evil which has not a single redeeming feature."

This is what schoolchildren in Florida and in all of America ought to be taught where it concerns slavery. 

Sadly, in the so-called "Free State of Florida" totalitarian concepts such as slavery are being embraced. If such concepts are openly embraced in public education in Florida, then such concepts will be embraced in other states.

It's just the sort of thing which could cause a civil war. 

One can only hope that reason prevails, and the guidelines are jettisoned. But reason is precisely what is lacking when it comes to DeSantis and most of the Republican Party. Ron DeSantis is on a crusade against wokeness and evidently the idea that slavery is evil is embracing wokeism. 

The Republican Party has come a long way from Abraham Lincoln to Ron DeSantis. Unfortunately, it come a long way down and there is likely no going back.