Ron Peri was appointed to oversee the Central Florida Tourism Oversight District to replace the old board . The oversight board previously called the Reedy Creek Improvement District governed Disneys sprawling acre footprint around Orlando . Peri’s comments came in the context of him pushing back on claims of systemic racism in the United States from past White ownership of slaves . Historians who spoke to said that the research Peri cited is ahistorical and based on invented research Whites were never considered slaves in America legally or socially . Irish were not sent as slaves to the Americas . King James II was not born until and did not take the throne until . Even the article he cited as evidence was updated before he used it in the seminar to note it contained a number of factual errors . In another comment Peri used data attributed to the census to say the numbers showed a significant and large number of free Blacks owned slaves . The vast majority of the census showed that out of slaves in the U.S. free Blacks were not considered slaves but were indentured servants. Indentured servitude consisted of a fixed period of time usually five to seven years and was not inheritable . The Irish did not breed with African slaves as Peri claimed . Irish women and girls with African men to produce slaves with a distinct complexion Peri added. The Irish were killed by the English were killed. The settlers began to breed Irish women . Peris said he added. In the mid s the Irish were sold to the English. The census . The census data . Pero said he did not . He did not say that he did . He said he said he used to say they were killed . He also said he had a significant number of slaves. He added that he was not .
DeSantis appointee to Disney board taught seminar using discredited research claiming White people were
