Regarding DeSantis and “slaves learning valuable skills,” aside from the delusional arrogance of that statement, he’s forgetting the literal life skills provided by Native Americans to the settlers because they were starving and freezing and incapable of survival. Without the First Americans’ help, settlers wouldn’t have lived long enough for later generations to then make moronic statements about skills and who, exactly, had them.

Some life events have occurred here in sunny California, and I’...