To the editor: I used to be fallacious. I assumed the Republicans have been making an attempt to take us again to the Nineteen Fifties. However Gov. Ron DeSantis’ remarks in regards to the potential advantages of slavery hark again to antebellum apologists who used “scientific” racism to justify slavery. Certainly, what Republicans actually need to do is take us again to the early nineteenth Century.
Margaret Hamilton, Portland, Ore.
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To the editor: When the Florida Board of Schooling put forth examples (in a listing masterfully debunked by Michael Hiltzik) of how sure African Individuals benefited from the talents they realized as slaves, they missed one of the vital good examples ever: Robert Smalls. As a slave he realized how one can navigate a large ship into and out of Accomplice Charleston Harbor… in order that he might later dupe his proprietor in 1862 and navigate the ship (together with its provide of heavy artillery) quietly out of the harbor as a present to Union forces. Oh, after stopping to choose up his household alongside the way in which.
Russ Woody, Studio Metropolis
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To the editor: The phrases “slavery” and “advantages” ought to by no means be spoken in the identical sentence. It’s abhorrent.
Marlene Bronson, Los Angeles
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To the editor: Between DeSantis’ remark about Black individuals having “parlayed” their time as slaves into changing into blacksmiths, and the dearth of any factual accuracy frequent to the examples cited by Florida schooling officers to help their new instructing requirements, one can’t assist however discover the phrase “dumb as an anvil” most applicable.
Ted Rosenblatt, Pacific Palisades
