Earlier this year, Florida sparked national controversy when it revised its public educational standards to include content that whitewashed the history of slavery. These changes to the state’s public school curriculum were one of many seemingly anti-Black policy changes in the Sunshine State over the past several years. Now, one Democratic state senator is trying to ban Florida from painting a positive image of slavery.
Everyone is talking past each other on this issue.
https://www.wral.com/story/fact-check-does-a-new-florida-curriculum-teach-that-enslaved-people-benefited-from-slavery/20971401/
Some people who don’t know anything are arguing that enslaved people literally benefited from slavery, but that’s not what started this discussion.