You've Got to Be Kidding?

I n keeping with Gov. Ron DeSantis’ wish to eradicate “Woke” from the state’s Public School System, the Florida Board of Education has just voted to approve an addition to the American history curriculum, which will also teach students about the “benefits of slavery.”   This new standard for teaching means Middle School students in Florida will now be taught a new curriculum that will promote the idea that slavery gave black people “skills” which could also be “used for their personal benefit.” And now a word from our Republican US Supreme Court - “Hi, my name is Clarence Thomas - and I approve this curriculum!”  Next up for the Florida school system, “How Auschwitz developed successful weight loss techniques.”   Hell, instead of reparations, as other states are considering, descendants of slaves living in Florida can soon expect to receive an “invoice” from the state to cover the costs of their descendant’s “apprenticeship training.” Now, with regard to slaves being taug...

A year after Texas lawmakers enacted legislation to keep topics they say could cause students to “feel uncomfortable" out of Texas classrooms, CBS News reports that the Texas State Board of Education has voted unanimously to revisit the term “slavery,” and consider a proposal to replace it with the phrase “Involuntary Relocation.” Gee, so slaves were just “Involuntary relocated” were they?  Hell, smart move Texas.  The term sure makes it sound like “slavery” was nothing more than some sort of a “clerical error.”  Now, call me a silly “libtard” if you will, but somehow I suspect all this means those nice folks over at the Texas State Board of Education will also poo-poo allowing discussion about what actually followed - AFTER these folks were “involuntary relocated?” Of course, Texas isn’t the only state trying to force educators to rewrite history the way today’s Republicans would like it to be told.  In fact, Florida Gov. DeSantis and his pals, as well as many ot...