# "Florida Schools Will Teach How Slavery Brought ‘Personal Benefit’ to Black People" **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [July 20, 2023, 2:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/florida-schools-will-teach-how-slavery-brought-personal-benefit-to-black-people/987304 "2023-07-20T14:46:47Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 15
**Author:** ![Thudlow\_Boink](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thudlow_boink/32/320_2.png) [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2023, 1:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/florida-schools-will-teach-how-slavery-brought-personal-benefit-to-black-people/987304/281 "2023-08-12T01:12:20Z")
Thanks for digging that up. Glad to hear that Frederick Douglass, who has [“really cool hair,”](https://youtu.be/5BfE-GRNJqA?t=77) is here to tell us that [“our system is wonderful”](https://youtu.be/5BfE-GRNJqA?t=331) and we must always work within the system (and don’t be like William Lloyd Garrison, who, when he doesn’t get what he wants, likes to set things on fire). ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2023, 5:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/florida-schools-will-teach-how-slavery-brought-personal-benefit-to-black-people/987304/282 "2023-08-12T05:10:19Z")
That’s some creepy open propaganda there. Plus every character in the series has Parkinson’s. ---
**Author:** ![ASL\_v2.0](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asl_v2.0/32/3525_2.png) [@ASL\_v2.0](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ASL_v2.0)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2023, 5:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/florida-schools-will-teach-how-slavery-brought-personal-benefit-to-black-people/987304/283 "2023-08-12T05:38:33Z")
> [@CalMeacham](#): > > Douglass, who was in Garrison’s camp for a decade, eventually was persuaded that the Constitution wasn’t pro-slavery… Did that “persuasion” withstand the outcome of _Dred Scott_? ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2023, 7:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/florida-schools-will-teach-how-slavery-brought-personal-benefit-to-black-people/987304/284 "2023-08-12T19:33:36Z")
Leo and Layla is interesting, and, as with the Florida guidelines, looks surprisingly liberal on its own, but it feels unsatisfying. Saying that Britain got its ideas about abolishing slavery from the US sounds good, but the truth is that Britain DID abolish slavery long before the US did, and had its own home-grown reasons for doing so. edited to add: "William Lloyd Garrison “isn’t really well know”??? ---
**Author:** ![Love\_Rhombus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/love_rhombus/32/10694_2.png) [@Love\_Rhombus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Love_Rhombus)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2023, 10:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/florida-schools-will-teach-how-slavery-brought-personal-benefit-to-black-people/987304/285 "2023-08-14T10:46:07Z")
[Here’s an NPR article that lists the changes kids in Florida will see in school.](https://www.npr.org/2023/08/14/1193557432/florida-education-private-schools-prageru-desantis) _Sigh_ Using children as your political props is irritating and too damned effective. Maybe we should care less about them. /s ---
**Author:** ![Mijin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mijin/32/9369_2.png) [@Mijin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mijin)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2023, 1:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/florida-schools-will-teach-how-slavery-brought-personal-benefit-to-black-people/987304/286 "2023-09-16T13:07:01Z")
> [@CalMeacham](#): > > Leo and Layla is interesting, and, as with the Florida guidelines, looks surprisingly liberal on its own, but it feels unsatisfying. Saying that Britain got its ideas about abolishing slavery from the US sounds good, but the truth is that Britain DID abolish slavery long before the US did, and had its own home-grown reasons for doing so. And I think that’s a lot of the motivation with this stuff. Sure, there’s racism partially behind it. But I think a lot of it is the myth of America being “chosen by God” and always being the bestest country in all regards. Therefore, the origin story needs to be 100% heroic and pioneering, it can’t be _nuanced_, let alone _brutal_. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/florida-schools-will-teach-how-slavery-brought-personal-benefit-to-black-people/987304.md?page=14)