So the Smithsonian can’t show that slavery was bad?

QP! said:
Florida will lead 'revised history' as they have in their schools by teaching slavery was not as bad as many would say because “slaves developed skills...".

You know, because a slave that can cook better, build things, etc, benefits his master better and his master may appreciate it... or not.

Therefore we should not overlook those benefits.
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YOU STUPID FUCKING IGNORANT RETARD!
BACK IN THE DAY, IF AN ESCAPED SLAVE MADE IT SOUTH OF ST. MARY'S RIVER, HE WAS WAS CONSIDERED A FREE MAN, ELIGIBLE FOR EMPLOYMENT AND TO BUY PROPERTY. THAT'S WHY FLORIDA HAS THE BEST BLACK AMERICANS IN THE UNITED STATES.
THEY'VE BEEN HERE SINCE BEFORE AMERICA WAS AMERICA, BITCH!
I know from from word of mouth from old people how it was. Also have friends whose families have been here for over 200 years. Black friends.
Generational 4-5-6x. :rolleyes2:
There were many black Crackers, retardo.
Peddle your racist bullshit somewhere else. Our thing is that we're all in this thing together.
 
Damocles said:
What part of "the good" ended with "of slavery" other than in your own head.

This is where the problem lies. While I personally do not think that the Smithsonian has a focus on slavery to the detriment to other history as there are 21 different Smithsonian Museums and most of them have nothing to do with slavery, I fully comprehend saying "The Smithsonian focuses too much on bad things about the US to the detriment of other history" is not the same thing as saying "slavery is good". Nomad.
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Here is what Trump thought about the Smithsonian just a few years back ad the museum has not changed so what do you think happened???



Trump was fawning over the museum.
 
"....It tells of the great struggle for freedom and equality against the sins of slavery and the injustice of discrimination..."

Donald J Trump
 
Damocles said:
Give us a link to someone at the Smithsonian saying that slavery wasn't bad, from there we can begin a conversation on this from a point of fact rather than suggestive titling and what appears to be an attempt to propagandize and to assign an opinion to other people. I do not know of one person who thinks slavery is or was good, I need a link to some official saying that it was for this thread to be worth some of my attention.
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Considering you already wrote a paragraph about the thread demanding your attention . . .
 
Damocles said:
Give us a link to someone at the Smithsonian saying that slavery wasn't bad, from there we can begin a conversation on this from a point of fact rather than suggestive titling and what appears to be an attempt to propagandize and to assign an opinion to other people. I do not know of one person who thinks slavery is or was good, I need a link to some official saying that it was for this thread to be worth some of my attention.
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Enjoy.

Nomad

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Damocles said:
As I said, point out someone that says that. I would disagree with them. It doesn't matter if I learn how to be a smith, if I was beat into the job rather than wanted it. However, telling folks that is what they are saying when they are simply saying that this is not all of our history and we shouldn't only focus on the bad is not the same thing as saying "slavery was good". These things are not the same.
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www.nbcnews.com

New Florida standards teach that Black people benefited from slavery because it taught useful skills

The standards, which were blasted by a statewide teachers' union as a "step backward," were approved Wednesday by the State Board of Education.
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Damocles said:
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FastLane said:
Indeed he did. Their parents died in the New York thyroid epidemic in 1847. His brother was adopted off an orphan train in the South and he fought for the South. Weird story.
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The first Orphan Train was in 1854. They went west not south. The South had too many orphans.
 
Walt said:
The first Orphan Train was in 1854. They went west not south. The South had too many orphans.
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Oh gee all knowing one you are wrong again the New York Founding Hospital sent orphans to the South. In fact Louisiana has an orphan train museum. My great great uncle was sent to South Carolina for adoption. He also had a younger brother with him but my family does not know who adopted him. The full story is the family immigrated from Ireland in 1843 one daughter died in transit on the ship. The parents both died in 1847 they are buried in a New York potters grave. Their 3 boys were put in an orphanage. They oldest eventually ran away and survived on the streets of New York. The other two were sent SOUTH on an orphan train. Eventually the oldest enlisted with the North and the second oldest enlisted in the Confederacy. After the war they settled in Temple Texas. There is more to the story but this is enough for now.

My uncle had told me the remarkable partial story but I thought it was just family lore. My wife is an accomplished amateur gemologist. She tracked down the full documentation of the story. We have copies of letters and photos.
 
Teflon Don said:
You need the Smithsonian to tell you that? You that stupid?
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NO but if they change the representation of history, future generations will learn it differently. You and I know it, but if history is rewritten we could certainty go back to people believing in the fiction of the happy slave.

It was not that long ago that many believed this.
 
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