Black Americans benefited from the uproar over Florida’s new school curriculum that promotes slavery

The Florida government has come under fire for its new education standards, which teach students that Black Americans profited from slavery. In Miami on Wednesday, some 100 people demonstrated against the new rules.

Middle school students are expected to understand “how slaves developed skills which, in some instances, could be applied for their personal benefit,” according Florida’s recently approved educational standards for African American history.

The curriculum shift coincides with Florida Governor Ron DeSantis’ rhetorical attacks on so-called ‘woke’ philosophy. Notably, DeSantis has fought an intellectual battle against the infiltration of worldism in American culture while running for the Republican presidential nomination in 2024.

DeSantis has also forbidden teachers from teaching material that implies people are privileged or mistreated based on their ethnicity or skin tone.

DeSantis ignored the controversy over Florida’s new educational standards at a recent campaign event and backed the curriculum.

Last month, he told reporters, “They’re probably going to show that some of the folks that eventually parlayed being a blacksmith into doing things later in life.”

While this was going on, a white middle school teacher in Florida named Mayade Ersoff criticized the new standards and called them “atrocious.” She also emphasized the drawbacks of slavery.

“These requirements are abhorrent. Slavery offers no advantages. Being taken from your house, chained to a boat, killed, or abused has no advantages. reading and writing are forbidden. And treated like a piece of property,” Ersoff claimed, according to a CNN report.

There will never be a benefit for anybody to be put through the brutality and all that they put (slaves) through, a lady by the name of Mildred Slocum who is the grandma of a kid at a school told CNN.