GOP presidential candidate draws renewed criticism after suggesting slavery helped African Americans develop skills such as being a blacksmith
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Marvin Dunn, a professor emeritus at Florida International University and author of “A History of Florida: Through Black Eyes,” said DeSantis would gain no political advantage from his argument because “it is so outrageous that people are going to reject it.”
“These children know in their hearts and in their minds that slavery was evil,” he said.
“One of the main things about slavery, beyond the physical damage that it did to people of so many generations, was that it prevented people from becoming what they could have become,” he said.
“So what if you became a carpenter or a blacksmith or a good maid? Your chances of that were not determined by you, it was determined by somebody else. That’s not a rationalization for enslavement.”
Well said
I pray for someone with the access to jump his Homelander-lookin ass
He knows damn well that this is a stupid stance on the subject, but he also knows damn well that his voting base is made up of some of the dumbest people in America and they’ll believe whatever he says.
His entire platform is based on this exact thing, which is lying to idiots.
I don’t know about this smart man manipulates idiots theory. Sometimes I think ding dongs can vote ding dongs is sufficient to explain most of the time.
In all seriousness though, it’s the three S model of conservatism. Scared, Stupid, and Selfish. You don’t have to be all three to be conservative, but you’re fucking one of them.
Doing blacksmithing helped develop skills.
The deprivation of humanity, dignity, compensation, etc did not. You know, the slavery part.
Exactly. I’m wondering how DeSantis thinks the slaves applied the “skills they learned” for their own benefit.
Let’s say a slave learned how to be an expert blacksmith. Great, but what does he do with it? He can’t exactly ask the Guy Who Owns Him As Property to set him free to open a blacksmithing business. He’s still a slave and has to do whatever his master orders him to do. There is no “personal benefit” when you’re a slave.
“some blacks”
I am from the Netherlands and read Uncle Tom in school early in my teens, must be desantis favorite “some blacks”.
