Saying "blacks learned [valuable] skills" is simply a way for the Right to minimize the horror of slavery to make it not seem so bad (goes hand-in-hand with forbidding the teaching of anything that makes white kids "feel bad.")

ANYTIME someone tries to express a "Lemonade from Lemons" defense against any atrocity (including the #Holocaust), they are trying to minimize that atrocity. #SlaveSkills #Slavery #RacistGOP #DeSantisIsARacist #TrumpIsARacist