DeSantis Defends New Curriculum Teaching How Slavery Brought ‘Personal Benefit’ To Black People

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) is defending a new school curriculum that will teach Middle school students in Florida that slavery gave Black people a “personal benefit” because they “developed skills.”

The Florida Board of Education approved new standards for African American history on Wednesday that states “instruction includes how slaves developed skills which, in some instances, could be applied for their personal benefit.”

Acts of violence “against and by” African Americans are also mentioned in lesson plans included in the new changes.

These changes come after the Florida legislature passed DeSantis’ “Stop-WOKE” law, described as an act that creates protection for students and workers, allowing them to not feel “discrimination based on race, color, sex or national origin.”

During a campaign stop in Utah on Friday, DeSantis was asked

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