echoes of those falsehoods can be heard once again yesterday at the florida board of education approved new standards for black history instruction that require lessons from middle schoolers to include quote, how slaves developed skills which in some instances could be applied for their personal benefit. the old racist trope from the 1850s that slavery done benefited the enslaved seems to have been resurrected in florida, in middle schoolers in that state may be required to learn it. more on that unlearning of american history is coming up next with my guest journalist and dean, jelani cobb. introducing the new swiffer powermop. an all-in-one cleaning tool with hundreds of scrubbing strips- that absorb and lock dirt away, for a mop and bucket clean in half the time. mop smarter with the new swiffer powermop.
medical textbooks until after 1814. human experiments and racist propaganda were used to prove something we all know was patently false. black people did not benefit from slavery, quite obviously. but this year in florida the echoes of those falsehoods can be heard once again. yesterday the florida board of education approved new standards for black history instruction that require lessons for middle schoolers to include, quote, how slaves developed skills, which in some instances could be applied for their personal benefit. the old racist trope from the 1850s that slavery benefitted the enslaved seems to have been resurrected in florida, and middle schoolers in that state may be required to learn it. more on that unlearning of american history is coming up next with my guest journalist and dean jeloni cobb. jeloni cob