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…
It wouldnt even matter if he was willing to do it for a year. Its a “common people” problem.
He would know that at any moment, he could say a word or make a call and it would stop. No slave had that ability. No slave knew their family was safe from rape or death. No slave had that certainty of safety, of health or of freedom.
His willingness to play as a slave would never be a serious situation, because it could never be anything but play.