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    Michael Hiltzik: The story behind that Florida school curriculum that whitewashed slavery keeps getting worse

    If there's a bet that you will almost always win, it's that no matter how crass and dishonest a right-wing claim may seem to be, the reality will be worse. That's the case with Florida's effort to whitewash the truth about slavery via a set of standards for teaching African American history imposed on the state's public school teachers and students. The curriculum, you may recall, was ...
    by Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times Aug 04, 2023 5 minutes
    Marker commemorating the Rosewood massacre of 1923: Can Florida escape its racist past?

    If there's a bet that you will almost always win, it's that no matter how crass and dishonest a right-wing claim may seem to be, the reality will be worse.

    That's the case with Florida's effort to whitewash the truth about slavery via a set of standards for teaching African American history imposed on the state's public school teachers and students.

    The curriculum, you may recall, was condemned for a provision that the curriculum cover "how slaves developed skills which, in some instances, could be applied for their personal benefit."

    Another provision seemed to blame "Africans' resistance to slavery" for the tightening of slave codes in the South that outlawed teaching slaves to read and write.

    A section referring to "acts of violence perpetrated against and " goes on to list five race riots and massacres

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