A bill pushed by Republican Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis that would prohibit public schools and private businesses from making white people feel “discomfort” when they teach students or train employees about discrimination in the nation’s past received its first approval Tuesday.
The Senate Education Committee approved the bill that takes aim at critical race theory — though it doesn’t mention it explicitly — on party lines, with Republicans in favor and Democrats opposed.
Poor white people. Poor, poor, put-upon white people. It must be awful being them.
“This bill’s not for Blacks, this bill was not for any other race. This was directed to make whites not feel bad about what happened years ago,” said state Sen. Shevrin Jones, who is Black. “At no point did anyone say white people should be held responsible for what happened, but what I would ask my white counterparts is, are you an enabler of what happened or are you going to say we must talk about history?”
I’ve got something for them that Black people have to feel “discomfort” about:
That’s from the Register of Deeds office in my North Carolina county. Well over 300 “property” records of people owned by other people. As you can see, many of those records are for multiple persons, multiple families. One county. Out of 100 in this one southern state. And not in the coastal plain where large plantations once operated.
Descendents of those people on the “slave deed’ list, and of others enslaved in this hemisphere, have little record of their family history, something white people take for granted. Mustn’t allow them to feel guilty about it.