Dr. Wilfred Reilly, a poly sci professor at Kentucky State, an HBCU, responded to the controversy on Twitter by saying that some of the slaves who had learned skilled trades were able to earn and keep money from applying their trade and that some of them were able to use said money to purchase their freedom.
I am not at all a fan of Ron DeSantis, but I thought him challenging VP Harris and any history expert of her choosing to debate him and his expert (whom I believe is one of the people who set the curriculum and happens to be black) was a savvy move and kind of a surprisingly reasonable one for DeSantis.
I wish people were as pissed off at kids not being able to read or do math as they seem to be over the content of AP history courses. Kids need to grow into adults with critical thinking skills, yet much of the debate seems to be over which ideology to uniformly imprint on all of them, rather than how to better develop the skills to sort things out on their own, like adults are supposed to be able to do. We're failing a great many of them.
The proper response is that enslaved people would have been able to keep all their own money if they were free. That is the message to send to young Black people. Cherish your freedom. Your ancestors suffered, you honor them by being strong.
Dr. Wilfred Reilly, a poly sci professor at Kentucky State, an HBCU, responded to the controversy on Twitter by saying that some of the slaves who had learned skilled trades were able to earn and keep money from applying their trade and that some of them were able to use said money to purchase their freedom.
I am not at all a fan of Ron DeSantis, but I thought him challenging VP Harris and any history expert of her choosing to debate him and his expert (whom I believe is one of the people who set the curriculum and happens to be black) was a savvy move and kind of a surprisingly reasonable one for DeSantis.
I wish people were as pissed off at kids not being able to read or do math as they seem to be over the content of AP history courses. Kids need to grow into adults with critical thinking skills, yet much of the debate seems to be over which ideology to uniformly imprint on all of them, rather than how to better develop the skills to sort things out on their own, like adults are supposed to be able to do. We're failing a great many of them.
The proper response is that enslaved people would have been able to keep all their own money if they were free. That is the message to send to young Black people. Cherish your freedom. Your ancestors suffered, you honor them by being strong.
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