Michael F Schundler
2 min readMar 30, 2024

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Florida law requires children to learn to black history. The Florida law you reference requires that black history does not attempt to teach separatist ideology or promote the concept that children inherit any responsibility for the acts of people in the past. I don't understand why you don't consider that a good thing.

Any ideology that preaches people inherit "the sins of others" based on their skin color is racist on its face, and it needs to end now...

Black history should be honest... preaching the good, the bad, the ugly, but it never be used to promote separatist ideology. An honest portrayal of black history would point to a slow (to slow in my opinion) movement toward integration.

Many "identity groups" have their own internal power structure built around preserving their "separate" identity and so integration is a threat to them. But mixed race is by leaps and bounds the fastest growing demographic group in America.

The story of Emmitt Till belongs to all Americans. He was an American who died because our country embraced separatism and his death will not be vain, if we continue reject separatism and move toward integration. But that starts with promoting integration in school as a core value of our society.

Returning to Florida... I have lived more than 110 years in both Florida and California. Both states are on the cutting edge of trying to create "a people" out of so many diverse "identity groups". Failure to do so, will produce violence as the groups compete for power and wealth among themselves... let's not feed that violence by preaching a separatist's message in history.

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