And any Trump support must be holding their noses as they recite their devotions to their orange God...

 

Trumptards are only loyal to their further Trump. Trump openly touted "stand ready and stand back" during a national debate. Clearly no need for dog whistles, eh?

 

'That isn't true': Michele Bachmann says slavery was not 'sinful' at America's inception

David Edwards
July 6, 2023, 3:44 PM ET



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Former Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-MN) celebrated America's birthday by declaring that slavery was not a "sinful" part of the nation's founding.

In a July 4 appearance on the Christian program Flashpoint, Bachmann was asked how America's youth viewed the country's inception.

She responded by calling the 1619 Project's efforts to document the effects of slavery "evil."

"Well, I think sometimes when evil comes into the world and when falsehoods come into our nation, people react to that," Bachmann said. "There's the 1619 Project that came in, and that is a rewriting of American history, a false view of American history. And a lot of people were absolutely appalled by that."

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The former lawmaker claimed that today's students are falsely being taught that America was "sinful from our inception" because slavery existed in the original 13 colonies when the war for independence broke out in 1775.

"They're taught things that aren't true, that America is a hateful country, that we were sinful from our inception," she asserted. "That isn't true. And so there's a whole 'nother group who are interested in knowing what the truth is."

"And so they're very motivated, and they're active and wanting to get the truth out to people," Bachmann insisted.

A majority of the "Founding Fathers" were slave owners, according to Britannica.

https://www.rawstory.com/michele-bachmann-slavery/

 

GOP congressman declares amendment has 'nothing to do' with 'colored people' on the House floor

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  GOP Rep. Eli Crane used racially-charged language during a floor debate on Thursday.
  
  
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On Thursday evening, a freshman Republican member of Congress used the phrase "colored people" while debating the issue of race in the military with Democratic Rep. Joyce Beatty of Ohio, a Black woman.

Rep. Eli Crane, a member of the hard-right House Freedom Caucus, had offered an amendment to the annual defense spending authorization bill that he said would prevent the consideration of "race, gender, religion, or political affiliations, or any other ideological concepts as the sole basis for recruitment, training education, promotion, or retention decisions."

It was one of a variety of Republican-proposed amendments to the defense bill that dealt with culture war issues. And towards the end of a spirited debate, the Arizona Republican argued that his amendment wasn't about race.

"My amendment has nothing to do with whether or not colored people, or Black people, or anybody can serve, okay?" said Crane. "It has nothing to do with the color of your skin, any of that stuff."

Crane's use of the phrase "colored people" — a term with negative historical connotations — immediately generated chatter from the other side of the chamber. And when he finished his remarks, Beatty spoke up and immediately called for Crane's remarks to be struck from the record.

"I'd like to be recognized to have the words 'colored people' struck from the record," said Beatty. "I find it offensive, and very inappropriate."

"I am asking for unanimous consent to take down the words of referring to me, or any of my colleagues, as 'colored people,'" Beatty added.

Crane then attempted to amend his remarks to "people of color," prompting Beatty to rebuke him.

"I asked unanimous consent, Mr. Speaker, to have the words stricken," she said. "I didn't ask to have the words amended."


In a statement to Insider later on Thursday, Crane said that he had misspoken.

"In a heated floor debate on my amendment that would prohibit discrimination on the color of one's skin in the Armed Forces, I misspoke," said Crane. "Every one of us is made in the image of God and created equal."



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https://www.yahoo.com/news/gop-congressman-declares-amendment-nothing-224356668.html

 

They hate when deplorables interfere with the social engineering plans, do despicables.

 

So why did the crowd at Charlottesville shout "Jews will not replace us." While supposedly at a rally to defend a statue of Robert E Lee.

 

camp follower dismissed

 

Still no big boy pants I see.

 

Shooters little parrot adding to the conversation

 

Yep nothing to add but insults. Typical trumptard behavior.

 

Critical Race Theory holds that racism in the US is institutionalized and permeates everything law enforcement and financing to state laws. And the proof of CRT is everywhere. But not many more glaring than this.

Damn slavery was so good for Black people we should just go back to it I suppose.

Florida Schools Will Teach How Slavery Brought ‘Personal Benefit’ to Black People
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Allison Quinn
Thu, July 20, 2023 at 6:31 AM MDT



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Middle school students in Florida will soon be taught that slavery gave Black people a “personal benefit” because they “developed skills.”

After the Florida Board of Education approved new standards for African American history on Wednesday, high school students will be taught an equally distorted message: that a deadly white mob attack against Black residents of Ocoee, Florida, in 1920 included “acts of violence perpetrated against and by African Americans.”

Dozens of Black residents were killed in the massacre, which was perpetrated to stop them from voting.

According to members of the board, that distorted portrayal of the racist massacre is factually accurate. MaryLynn Magar, a member of the board appointed by Gov. Ron DeSantis, said at the board’s meeting in Orlando on Wednesday that “everything is there” in the new history standards and “the darkest parts of our history are addressed,” the Tallahassee Democrat reported.


The majority of the speakers who provided public testimony on the planned curriculum were vehemently opposed to it, warning that crucial context is omitted, atrocities are glossed over, and in some cases students will be taught to “blame the victim.”



“I am very concerned by these standards, especially some of the notion that enslaved people benefited from being enslaved,” state Rep. Anna Eskamani (D-Orlando) said, per Action News Jax.

“When I see the standards, I’m very concerned,” state Sen. Geraldine Thompson said at the board meeting. “If I were still a professor, I would do what I did very infrequently; I’d have to give this a grade of ‘I’ for incomplete. It recognizes that we have made an effort, we’ve taken a step. However, this history needs to be comprehensive. It needs to be authentic, and it needs additional work.”

“When you look at the history currently, it suggests that the [Ocoee] massacre was sparked by violence from African Americans. That’s blaming the victim,” the Democrat warned.

“Please table this rule and revise it to make sure that my history, our history, is being told factually and completely, and please do not, for the love of God, tell kids that slavery was beneficial because I guarantee you it most certainly was not,” community member Kevin Parker said.

Approval of the new standards is a win for the DeSantis administration, which has effectively sought to create a new educational agenda that shields white students from feeling any sense of guilt for wrongs perpetrated against people of color. The Florida governor signed the “Stop WOKE Act” last year to do just that, restricting how issues of race are taught in public schools and workplaces.

In keeping with the administration’s crusade against “wokeness,” Education Commissioner Manny Diaz defended the new standards against criticism, saying, “This is an in-depth, deep dive into African American history, which is clearly American history as Governor DeSantis has said, and what Florida has done is expand it,” Action News Jax reported.

Paul Burns, the Florida Department of Education’s chancellor of K-12 public schools, also insisted the new standards provide an exhaustive representation of African American history.

“Our standards are factual, objective standards that really teach the good, the bad and the ugly,” he was quoted as saying Wednesday by Florida Phoenix. He denied the new standards portray slavery as beneficial.

Although education officials say teachers are meant to expand upon the new curriculum in the classroom, critics say teachers are unlikely to do that for fear of being singled out and possibly punished for being too “woke.”

The Florida Education Association, the state’s largest teachers union, called the new standards “a big step backward for a state that has required teaching African American history since 1994” in a statement after Wednesday’s vote.

Derrick Johnson, president and CEO of the NAACP, also condemned the new curriculum, saying in a statement: “Our children deserve nothing less than truth, justice, and the equity our ancestors shed blood, sweat, and tears for.”

“Today’s actions by the Florida state government are an attempt to bring our country back to a 19th century America where Black life was not valued, nor our rights protected. It is imperative that we understand that the horrors of slavery and Jim Crow were a violation of human rights and represent the darkest period in American history. We refuse to go back,” he said.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/florida-schools-teach-slavery-brought-123130834.html

 

Republicans don't actually believe this, at least their actions don't indicate this...

 

That's what repukes do so well. This is the sought of thing that has to come out during the primaries. Make Desantis explain this to a national audience.

 

You hit a vital point. And it reminds me of the same thing with the fake electors that through it was a good idea to sign fraudulent documents and send them into the government. They fall so deeply into the Trump cult they can't even see what they are doing. They think its a good idea to just blatantly try to whitewash slavery to assuage their own guilt. But out side their own little cult bubble what they is horrifying to the vast majority if the country. Not only is their indoctrination obvious it is also insane to most people. How can enslaved people benefit from anything? And their racism just screams trying to say without being slaves Black people would not have learned any skills.

 

The more things change, the more things remain the same.

 

But out of their benevolence they did help them so much. Just think of it if they had just left them in Africa they never would have learned to pick cotton, or work in the tobacco and sugar cane fields sun up to sun down, cook and clean, nurse other people's babies, and especially give birth to their rapists babies. And talk about advancement and equality now they have made it legal for every woman to give birth to their rapist's baby.

 

Florida's attempts to whitewash slavery are the most stupid and ignorant (two different things) I have ever seen. How can they come up with a "history" curriculum when they don't know shit about history.

And they are also too stood and ignorant to see how they defeat their own purpose. All this really shows is how guilty and disgraced they are about slavery. So guilty and disgraced they have to try and lie about it. Which is exactly why schools should teach the real history of slavery and how that still still affects our nation today..

Tampa Bay Times, St. Petersburg, Fla.
Benefited from slavery? Critics say some of the state’s examples were never even slaves.

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Jeffrey S. Solochek, Tampa Bay Times
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The Florida Department of Education faced angry reaction from across the nation this week to new African American history standards suggesting some slaves benefited from skills they learned while enslaved.

Responding to mounting criticism, the department issued a statement Thursday offering 16 examples of historic figures it said fit that description. That they developed highly specialized abilities that helped them later in life is “factual and well documented,” the department stated.

Asked for more information on Friday, Florida’s Department of Education cited as references “The Colored Patriots of the American Revolution,” an 1895 book by William Cooper Nell, and “Encyclopedia of African American History 1619-1895,″ a 2006 book edited by Paul Finkelman.

Alex Lanfranconi, a spokesperson for the department, said the experts stand behind their examples. Frances Presley Rice, a co-founder of the Yocum African American History Association and chairperson of the National Black Republican Association, provided the information to the department.


But other sources offer conflicting descriptions of the 16 historic figures, and critics came forward to attack the department’s claims. Among the problems: Historic sources show several of the 16 individuals were never even slaves.

The standards were approved Wednesday by the Board of Education, whose members were all appointed by Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis. The ensuing debate over the standards has been magnified by presidential politics.

Vice President Kamala Harris said extremists want to “replace history with lies” as she traveled to Florida on Friday to assail the standards.

From the campaign trail in Utah the same day, DeSantis accused Harris of attempting “to demagogue” and politicize history. He said he wasn’t involved in devising the Florida Board of Education’s standards but defended components instructing that enslaved people were taught skills that benefited them.

”They’re probably going to show that some of the folks that eventually parlayed being a blacksmith into doing things later in life. But the reality is: All of that is rooted in whatever is factual,” he said.

That defense drew yet more criticism. On Saturday American Federation of Teachers President Randi Weingarten and her colleague Leo Casey, a retired teacher from Brooklyn’s Clara Barton High School, issued a joint statement.

”This is disgusting and willfully ahistorical.” it said. “Normally publishing a grievously racist notion like ‘slaves benefited from slavery’ would be considered an embarrassment and quickly withdrawn. But not for Gov. Ron DeSantis of Florida, where doubling down on this noxious claim is seen as a badge of honor.”

Several critics argued that nearly half of the 16 historic figures highlighted by the state were never enslaved. Others, who did spend time in slavery, did not gain their skills from their servitude.

“They just threw out a bunch of names to make it seem like something good came of (slavery),” said Andrew Spar, president of the Florida Education Association teachers union. “The reality of it is, the facts don’t back up what they are saying.”

He mentioned Booker T. Washington, included on the state list as an educator. Washington was enslaved but did not gain his skills until after being freed at age 9. He worked in mines and as a houseboy before entering school, according to Tuskegee University, which he founded in 1881.

Georgetown University postdoctoral fellow Joshua Stein took issue with the state’s use of James Forten and Lewis Latimer as examples. The department said Latimer was a blacksmith born into slavery in 1848 and freed in 1852, and Forten was a shoemaker born into slavery in 1766 who escaped in 1784.

A museum dedicated to Latimer states he was born to two self-liberated formerly enslaved parents. Self-educated, he worked as an inventor, participating in the development of the telephone and incandescent lighting, among other inventions.

The Museum of the American Revolution describes Forten as a Black entrepreneur born to free parents. He served on privateer ships during the Revolutionary War and became a wealthy sailmaker.

Not only were they not slaves, Stein wrote on Twitter, their provided professions also were incorrect. “So … you’re wrong on both halves.”

Other examples:

• The department listed Henry Blair as a slave who became a blacksmith and an inventor. Biography.com and several other sites state there is no information indicating that Blair was enslaved. He invented a corn planter and a cotton planter, becoming the second Black person to earn a U.S. patent.

• The department referred to Paul Cuffe as a shoemaker and shipowner born into slavery and escaped to freedom in 1781. According to PaulCuffe.org, operated by the Westport Historical Society, Cuffe was born in 1759 to an emancipated slave. Having worked on whaling boats starting at age 14, he established a shipping business in Massachusetts.

• The statement mentioned John Chavis as a fisherman born into slavery, who later was known for his work in teaching. The North Carolina Museum of History states that Chavis was born into a free Black family in North Carolina, fought in the Revolutionary War and became an educator.

Genesis Robinson, political director for Equal Ground Florida, said he was disappointed but not surprised at the information. He said members of the public have been trying to point out problems with the standards since the state first introduced them for input and comment.

“They don’t care about an accurate accounting of Black history,” Robinson said.

State Sen. Shevrin Jones, D-Miami Gardens, expressed dismay that the Department of Education would put forth questionable examples to advance what he considered a “disgusting” lesson that anyone might benefit from being enslaved.

“I want them to do that in other moments in history where people were oppressed and try to explain why this was to their benefit,” said Jones, who is Black. “It is so disingenuous.”


https://www.yahoo.com/news/benefited-slavery-critics-state-examples-204800717.html