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DeSantis doubles down on claim that some Blacks benefited from slavery
Kevin Sullivan, Lori Rozsa
Washington Post

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis is intensifying his efforts to de-emphasize
racism in his state's public school curriculum by arguing that some Black
people benefited from being enslaved and defending his state's new African
American history standards that civil rights leaders and scholars say
misrepresents centuries of U.S. reality.

"They're probably going to show that some of the folks that eventually
parlayed, you know, being a blacksmith into doing things later in life,"
DeSantis said on Friday in response to reporters' questions while standing
in front of a nearly all-White crowd of supporters.
Florida Governor and Republican presidential candidate Ron DeSantis speaks
during a press conference at the Celebrate Freedom Foundation Hangar in
West Columbia, S.C. Tuesday, July 18, 2023. DeSantis visited South Carolina
to file his 2024 candidacy for president.

DeSantis, a GOP presidential candidate who is lagging in polls against the
front-runner, former president Donald Trump, and is trying to reset his
campaign, quickly drew criticism from educators and even some in his party.
He has built his campaign for the Republican presidential nomination on
attacking what he calls the radical liberal policies of President Biden and
the Democratic Party, but the latest remarks could alienate Black voters
just as the GOP tries to court them.

Former U.S. representative Will Hurd of Texas, who announced last month
that he was joining the race for the GOP nomination, blasted the idea that
enslaved people were able to use slavery as some kind of training program.

"Slavery wasn't a jobs program that taught beneficial skills," Hurd, the
son of a Black father and a White mother, tweeted. "It was literally
dehumanizing and subjugated people as property because they lacked any
rights or freedoms."

DeSantis, however, is continuing to defend Florida's new curriculum, which
covers a broad range of topics and includes the assertion for middle school
instruction that "slaves developed skills which, in some instances, could
be applied for their personal benefit."

DeSantis said he "wasn't involved" in writing the new teaching materials,
which took effect this week. But he credited "a lot of scholars" with
creating "the most robust standards in African American history probably
anywhere in the country."

Civil rights leaders, educators and others have expressed revulsion at the
idea that enslaved people benefited from the experience.

As Biden's running mate, Vice President Harris has stepped up her attack-
dog role, and on Friday traveled to Jacksonville to assail DeSantis's
policies in his home state. She emphasized that slavery involved rape,
torture and "some of the worst examples of depriving people of humanity in
our world."

Florida State Rep. Fentrice Driskell, a Tampa Democrat who last year became
the first Black woman to become House Democratic leader, called DeSantis's
latest remarks a continuation of his "assault on Black history."

"Let's really dissect what he's saying here," she said. "He's saying that
to be ripped away from your homelands and brought to another country
against your will, or to be born into the atrocity of the dehumanizing
institution that was slavery, that those horrors are some way, somehow
outweighed by the benefit that you get a trade. Are you kidding me?"

DeSantis issued a statement Friday saying, "Democrats like Kamala Harris
have to lie about Florida's educational standards to cover for their agenda
of indoctrinating students and pushing sexual topics onto children." His
campaign did not respond to an email on Saturday requesting comment.

Some on the right defended DeSantis, including Fox News host Jesse Watters.

"No one is arguing slaves benefited from slavery," Watters said Friday on
his prime time show. "No one is saying that. It's not true. They are
teaching how Black people develop skills during slavery in some instances
that can be applied for their own personal benefit."

Biden campaign co-chairman Cedric L. Richmond attacked DeSantis's defense
of the new Florida curriculum as "disgusting." He added in a statement on
Saturday that it was "a symptom of the extremism that's infected the
Republican candidates running for president. There's no debate over
slavery. It was utterly evil with zero redeeming qualities."

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."

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According to Chief of Patrol Joseph Kenny, cops are looking for 39-year-old Kashaan Parks, who police believe used a belt to choke out at a 45-year-old woman on 152nd Street and 3rd Avenue before dragging her between two parked cars on May 1st and raping her.

Police have identified the man wanted for a brutal rape in the Bronx, where the suspect is seen wrapping a belt around the victim’s neck and dragging her down the street before engaging in a disturbing sexual act.

According to Chief of Detectives Joseph Kenny, cops are looking for 39-year-old Kashaan Parks, who police believe used a belt to choke out a 45-year-old woman on 152nd Street and 3rd Avenue before dragging her between two parked cars on May 1 and raping her. With the suspect identified, cops believe an arrest will be imminent.

Video footage of the incident, which was caught by a security camera, has gone viral online in recent days. However, cops say they were not immediately aware of the incident since the victim did not report the shocking sex attack.

It wasn’t until the woman was arrested for petty larceny that cops learned of the incident.

However, once detectives asked her about the attack, she fully cooperated and managed to identify the attacker due to distinctive gaps in his teeth.

“Our victim indicated that she had seen him before; she actually described his teeth to us; he had unusual teeth,” Chief Kenny explained. “She said he has space between his teeth.”

Police say they believe the vicious assault stemmed from a conversation the pair had earlier in the night, which involved a promise of money for sex. Yet when the alleged agreement did not come to fruition, Parks allegedly leaped into a rage and slung the belt around the victim’s neck and raped her.

The incident has spawned widespread condemnation from viewers across the internet, including elected officials who have denounced the attack.

Kill him.

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Red wrote:
> "So what if you became a blacksmith >
May the Forge be with you!