DES MOINES, IA—Vociferously defending his state’s decision to teach middle school students that enslaved Black Americans benefited from forced labor, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis announced plans Monday to live as a slave for a year to prove it’s not that bad. “I’m going to be put on the auction block and sold away from…
I guess it’s all about the end of what I said, I think: check myself. The very idea offends them. The inability to even acknowledge, let alone consider, the idea they could ever just…get it wrong. It’s scary. Like a giant bomb we either find a way to work together and learn how to defuse…or else.