His tactics have a singular goal – erase the horrors of America’s racist past, and create easier pathways for racism to thrive
Slavery was actually beneficial to Black people, according to a set of new rules around how Black American history is going to be taught in Florida’s public schools.
The new curriculum also includes assertions that Black people themselves perpetrated violence during historical racial massacres like the 1906 Atlanta race riot and the 1921 Tulsa massacre.
Tayo Bero is a Guardian US columnist