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3rd Gum Ball

some are tastier than others

Marjorie Pezzoli
Jul 24, 2023
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I honestly wish this senryu haiku did not need to be written. This gum ball leaves a bitter sour taste in my mouth

The Florida State Board of Education approved new standards to teach African American studies to show the benefits of slavery like it could have been an internship.

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"benchmark clarifications," and among those was one that states "instruction includes how slaves developed skills which, in some instances, could be applied for their personal benefit."

History matters - choice of words matter

"How is it that anyone could suggest that amidst these atrocities [of slavery], there was any benefit to being subjected to this level of dehumanization?" 

- Vice President Kamala Harris 

https://www.yahoo.com/gma/harris-florida-push-back-states-192700363.html?fr=yhssrp_catchall

I really do not understand how this managed to happen.

How could the Florida State Board of Education try to minimize slavery?

Governor Ron DeSantis, what will come next?

Education should be about the truth

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