Charles JohnsonWe used to only hear this “slavery benefitted black people” racist horseshit from the farthest of the far right.
Now it’s mainstream Republican politics.
Ben Gleason@Green_Footballs Unfortunately that's not true. The high school textbooks in north Texas in the late 1980s told us how the slaves' lives weren't all bad, with little artist's renditions of cozy slave bungalows. No subtlety - just straight up lies in public school. That shit was everywhere, unquestioned, right there in the standard curriculum