Drapetomania, By Brian37 (AKA Brian James Rational Poet on FB/META and @Brianrrs37 on Twitter/X)

DeSantis postulated that slaves
Were better off because
They learned new skills

Amnesia is not his ill, but of ignorance
He will take advantage of at will

“Dr” Cartwright long before this
Modern swill, gives my bones a chill
Slaves who had taken flight

He proclaimed a mental disorder
In 1851 before the first Civil War guns

Not be let the captives indulge in comfort
Or to see themselves as equal to the master
This would create the malady of wanting freedom

After “familiarity”, keep your distance be
And punish them accordingly until
“They fall into that submissive state”

The master shall not appose the Deity’s will
“The Almighty declared he should be
“The submissive knee bender”

“Whip the devil out of them”
Was Samuel’s remedy. Today we fail to see
Too far outside that history

The unheard whistle heard as loud
As thunderclap to the sane
We will not repeat this again

DeSantis postulated that slaves
Were better off because
They learned new skills

I have two words for you Ron
FUCK YOU!
(end)

There was an Antebellum crackpot doctor named Samuel A. Cartwright who postulated a fake mental disorder called “Drapetomania” for slaves basically saying that if slave owners or masters treated them too well they would get a taste for something God did not give them the right to have. YES, more fucking proof that the bible was used to condone slavery. And how convenient a crackpot telling the sickos what they wanted to hear.

“Amnesia is not his ill” means DeSantis knows better but doesn’t care.

So when you hear people like DeSantis today making a sick argument that remember our history and why when he says sick shit like that it has to be called out every time.

This was really part of our history unfortunately.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drapetomania