Leaders of Florida congregations are teaching their own versions of Black history that are not 'watered down' by new state guidelines.
During a press conference in July, the Florida governor defended the new curriculum standards by saying,"I didn't do it, and I wasn't involved in it." DeSantis also added:"I think what they're doing, is I think that they're probably going to show some of the folks that eventually parlayed, you know, being a blacksmith, into doing things later in life."to the Florida DOE on Friday, which did not immediately respond for comment.
Florida Governor Ron DeSantis speaks on July 14 in Des Moines, Iowa. Some Black-run Florida congregations are teaching their own versions of Black history after the state implemented new education guidelines earlier this summer.Some of Florida's more than 200 churches and congregations run by Black pastors have taken the issue into their own hands, offering what they deem not to be sermons, but Black history as it actually occurred.
Pastor Kenneth Johnson of Friendship Missionary Baptist Church recently led an hourlong online lesson about the transatlantic slave trade—the first in what is intended to be a series that will begin this fall,"It wasn't a sermon," Johnson said."It would have passed any muster as a legitimate class. We don't need government approval to teach our history."
Faith in Florida is a self-described multicultural nonpartisan network of congregation community organizations in the state that address systemic racial and economic issues for individuals of different religious denominations and faiths. In May, the network said it created its own curriculum and pledged to"take our history and education back into our own hands.
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