Florida Schools Will Teach How Slavery Brought ‘Personal Benefit’ to Black People

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Florida Schools to Tell Kids Slavery Benefited Black People
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Holy shit this is stupid. These people were forcibly taken from their homes, stacked like wood in the holds of ships where many of them died, then treated worse than animals when they got here. So no, that wasn't a benefit.

Sounds like you're from Florida though

No I'm just being provocative for the sake of conversation.

Overall I think their generational offspring's lives are likely "improved" compared to maybe the similar generations who remained in their homeland these days.

However, those that were slaves definitely suffered a very unjust and horrific existence that is inexcusable.

No I’m just being provocative for the sake of conversation.

The activity you just described is called "trolling."

No I'm just being provocative for the sake of conversation.

Also known as "being an asshole"

Man, you must be a lot of fun to be around...

Seeing your replies to this and other comments, it's clear you are loving all this attention. Classic troll behavior. Fuck directly off.

Trolls are the stupid person's idea of an intellectual

There has to be some validity to a point for it to be provocative. You've utterly failed there.