DeSantis says Black people benefited from slavery by learning skills like 'being a blacksmith'

• Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis said Black people learned beneficial skills as slaves.
• "They're probably going to show that some of the folks that eventually parlayed, you know, being a blacksmith into doing things later in life," DeSantis said at a press conference.
• Florida approved a new African-American studies curriculum that teaches about the "personal benefit" of slavery.

Gov. Ron DeSantis of Florida said Black people benefitted from some of the skills they learned in slavery — and students in the state will soon learn about that "personal benefit" in Florida's education curriculum.