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In the past year, Florida as well as other southern republican ran states have declared war on the critical race theory. From banning books from schools and libraries to trying to alter US history by implying that slavery was good because slaves learned a trade has many Americans in an uproar.

Critics, including Vice President Kamala Harris, historians, educators, and other politicians have said, among other things, that the new standards attempt to mask the many horrors of slavery, including rape, breeding, murder and forced labor, trying to portray it as an apprenticeship is slap in the face.

A majority of the members of the Florida work group that developed new standards for teaching African American history opposed the sections that have recently drawn criticism, including that middle schoolers be instructed that enslaved people developed "skills" that could be used for their "personal benefit,".

Many feel that Florida's Black history curriculum is even worse than reported. It has been further argued that the assault on Black education, from banning books, that are majority Black authored is another way for White republican leaders to rewrite history, so White Americans are not portrayed as the villains in the history books. Or were the Florida school board's recommendations on how to teach black history, an honest attempt to ensure that White children do not feel guilty about slavery, something they had nothing to do with, but still benefits from, due to white privilege. Do you agree or disagree with the either or both sides of the argument? Please explain your rationale by applying two of the four sociological perspectives.