b'POLITICSGov DeSantis tries to White-Wash Black History as if it never existedBlackMansStreet.today RonDeSantisthatbarsinstructioninschools that suggests anyone is privileged or oppressed based on their race or skin color. T heFloridaBoardofEducationapprovedaThe standards require instruction for middle new set of standards for how Black historyschoolstudentstoincludehowslavesdevel-should be taught in the states public schools,oped skills which, in some instances, could be but the head of the NAACP denounced the move,applied for their personal benefit, a document sayingthatitshouldnoteliminateslavery,listing the standards and posted on the Florida Jim Crow laws, police brutality, and the prob- Department of Education website said. lemsmanyBlacksfaceeveryday,including,Some things are being left out include a num-forexample,instancesliketheWhitewomanber of massacres; the Atlanta race massacre, the who recently received probation for spitting in aTulsa race massacre in which whites murdered Black\'s woman face. 400Blacks,theRosewoodracemassacreand Ourchildrendeservenothinglessthanbloody summers in Chicago.truth, justice, and the equity our ancestors shedWhen high school students learn about events blood,sweat,andtearsfor,DerrickJohnson,such as the 1920 Ocoee massacre the new rules presidentandCEOoftheNAACP,saidinarequire that instruction include acts of violence statement. "Today\'s actions by the Florida stateperpetrated against and by African Americans. government are an attempt to bring our country back to a 19th century America where Black lifeThemassacreisconsideredthedeadliest wasnotvalued,norourrightsprotected.ItisElection Day violence in US history and, accord-imperative that we understand that the horrorsing to several histories of the incident, it start-of slavery, and Jim Crow laws were a violation ofedwhenMosesNorman,aprominentBlack human rights and represent the darkest periodlandownerintheOcoee,Florida,community, inAmericanhistory.Werefusetogoback,attemptedtocasthisballotandwasturned Johnson said. away by White poll worker. DerrickJohnson, Pres. & CEO, NAACPThenewstandardscomeafterthestateMorethan250Whitepeople,amongthem passednewlegislationThursdayunderGov.members of the Ku Klux Klan, torched rows of houseswhereAfricanandtwoWhitepeoplewerekilled,buteyewit-Americanslivedandness accounts suggested a higher death toll of setfiretoothercom- 27 to 150. munity buildings.TheChicagoraceriotof1919wasaviolent TheRosewoodmas- racialconflictbetweenWhiteAmericansand Standards require instruction for middlesacrewasaraciallyBlack Americans that began on the South Side motivatedmassacreof Chicago on July 27 when Blacks drifted into school students to include how slavesofBlackpeopleandparts of Lake Michigan reserved for Whites.thedestructionofa developed skills which, in some instances,BlacktownthattookItbeginonJuly27andendedonAugust placeduringthefirst3,1919.Duringtheriot,38peopledied(23 could be applied for their personal benefit. week of January 1923Blacks and 15 Whites). Over the week, injuries inruralLevyCounty,attributedtotheepisodicconfrontationsstood Florida. at537,two-thirdsBlackandone-thirdwhite; and between 1,000 and 2,000 residents, most of AtleastsixBlackthem Black, lost their homes.6 AUGUST 2023 BOCNEWS.com'