cooperate, tampa bay times and the miami herald conducted extensive exploratory research About how Florida created the whitewashed history we teach our children. You can probably imagine how the argument arose that the advantage of slavery was that it produced better blacksmiths. But it’s still surprising to see it in official government documents.
For example, lessons in the Advanced Placement course focus on how Europeans profited from trading materials produced by enslaved people and enslaved workers. Ta. The state objected to its content, saying this guiding approach “could lead to an ‘oppressor versus oppressor’ perspective based solely on race or ethnicity.”
Of course, the “nation” is also stupid. In the name of Gordon Wood, how should we teach about chattel slavery other than from the “oppressor versus oppressor” perspective in the United States?how exclude Is it based solely on race or ethnicity? Household income? My Craz-O-Meter’s circuit is dangerously close to overloading.
These objections question how Florida education officials enforce sweeping state laws and regulations that limit how schools teach about racism and other aspects of history, as well as the College Board’s Africa One example of how the American Studies Examination Course has fallen victim to those policies.
And of course the whole review process was a complete undertaking.
John Dubel, the state agency’s social studies director, and Kevin Hoeft, a former state agency employee who now works at New College of Florida in Sarasota, were identified as the two evaluators for the review. Ta. Hoeft is listed as an “expert consultant” to the Civic Alliance, a national conservative group that aims to center social studies instruction on Western norms and eliminate “woke” standards. . His wife is a member of the conservative group Moms for Liberty.
Duvel declined to comment for this story and referred questions to the Ministry of Education, which did not respond. Hooft did not respond to requests for comment. The document says Mr. Dubel and Mr. Hoeft led the state review, but many of the comments included in the state review are unattributed, making it difficult to know who said what.
The document shows an evaluation process that has virtually nothing to do with education and that, intellectually, It’s somewhere behind the Marx Brothers.
Overall, there were a variety of statements made by evaluators that attempted to whitewash some of the history lessons introduced in the course materials and to discredit the racism and discrimination mentioned. For example, one of his lessons in the course was aimed at teaching students how slavery hindered Black people’s ability to build wealth. “Enslaved African Americans had no wages or legal rights to accumulate property to pass on to their descendants, and individual exceptions were subject to the whims of enslaved workers,” the College Board’s guidance plan states. . But when reviewing the content, state judges said the lesson plan “assumes that slaves and their descendants do not accumulate wealth,” and therefore may violate state laws and regulations. Ta.
“This is untrue and may promote critical race theory ideas of reparations,” state officials said in a document reviewed by the Herald/Times. “This topic presents one side of the issue and is not intended to offer opposing or alternative viewpoints on the subject.”
The state’s “assessors” then became involved in the racial conflicts that first erupted in 1829.
When the University Board took up resistance to slavery, it wanted to teach students how to “describe the characteristics of 19th-century radical resistance strategies promoted by black activists to demand change.” . In the division, the state challenged two primary sources: “The Appeal” by David Walker and “An Address to the Slaves of the United States” by Henry Hyland Garnett. State reviewers said the “appeal” includes “subjects prohibited by Florida law,” but provided no further details. It said the “Address to the Slaves of the United States” contained “factual errors” and possible violations of state regulations. “They complain that this primary source is not historically accurate. Of course, it is not historically accurate because it is a political speech. This is not part of history, but black abolitionist “It’s a completely historically accurate primary source for understanding the outrage,” Finkelman said.
The smuggling into the South that Walker called Walker’s Appeal, 4 articles.Written at Boston, Massachusetts, September 28, 1829, with preamble, addressed to the colored peoples of the world, and especially to the people of the United States of America. It was as inflammatory as the public newspapers. common sense It took place in 1776, except that it specifically targeted enslaved people who were denied the benefits of Thomas Paine’s revolution. (To be fair, Paine was pointing out the hypocrisy of slaveholders preaching about “freedom” in his 1775 year.) Walker, a Boston clothing store owner, , I sewed a copy of it. bring the action He sent goods south. He distributed his work through an underground network of black sailors, barge operators, and railroad workers. Mr. Walker did not exchange a single word in the pamphlet. He categorically called for rebellion and warned white slaveholders.
“Unless you change course quickly, you and your country will disappear!!!!!!” Because God Almighty will tear the very face of the earth apart! ! ! ”
Southern governments climbed over the wall. Four states immediately passed laws banning its possession and distribution. bring the action, some of them were sentenced to death. Georgia and other states prohibit black sailors from appearing in ports. One year after that, bring the action Nat Turner led one of the bloodiest slave revolts in American history. The slave governments of the South saw: bring the action Like a match that lights a fuse. According to documents published by the authorities here: times and the herald, How did Florida “experts” want Florida’s history to be? bring the action Covered in state schools. They don’t want to deal with it at all.
When the University Board took up resistance to slavery, it wanted to teach students how to “describe the characteristics of 19th-century radical resistance strategies promoted by black activists to demand change.” . In the division, the state challenged two primary sources: “The Appeal” by David Walker and “An Address to the Slaves of the United States” by Henry Hyland Garnett. State reviewers said the “appeal” contains “subjects prohibited by Florida law,” but provided no further details. It said the “Address to the Slaves of the United States” contained “errors of fact” and possible violations of state regulations. “They complain that this primary source is not historically accurate. Of course, it is not historically accurate because it is a political speech. This is not part of history, but black abolitionist “It’s a completely historically accurate primary source for understanding the outrage,” Finkelman said.
It seems like it’s still a problem 194 years later.
Charles P Pierce is the author of four books, most recently stupid americaHe lives near Boston and has three children.