Kamala Harris’ Smear of Florida’s Black History Curriculum Implodes

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from Daily Signal,
7/27/23:

A shamefully bogus story promoted by Vice President Kamala Harris has taken an amusing turn. You might call it a “self-own.”

First, a little backstory.

In January, the Florida Department of Education rejected the Advanced Placement standards for African American history produced by College Board. The department cited a lack of educational value and historical inaccuracy as the reason.

To cut to the chase, it was ideological indoctrination masquerading as “history.”

The Left went bonkers and tried to portray the move as evidence that Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis is a “racist” who doesn’t want Florida schoolchildren to learn about black history.

The Left couldn’t really make the accusation stick, DeSantis remained popular, …

In a July 20 speech in Jacksonville, Florida, Vice President Kamala Harris said that middle school students in Florida are “to be told that enslaved people benefited from slavery.”

Whoa, what? Florida says slavery is good? DeSantis is really Jefferson Davis 2.0?

No.

Charles Cooke at National Review did an excellent job at shredding the vice president’s slavery line.

“This is a brazen lie.

Not only has Harris not issued an apology, the liberal media followed up by continuing to gin up as much hysteria as possible. No surprise there.

They really are just going to repeat this lie repeatedly until it sticks.

Here’s the kicker, though.

There’s been an amusing follow-up to this story. On Wednesday, DeSantis’ press secretary, Jeremy Redfern, posted part of the AP African American studies curriculum—you know, the curriculum students had to receive in Florida to get real, not racist, history—on Twitter.

This was labeled “essential knowledge.”

Not only has Harris not issued an apology, the liberal media followed up by continuing to gin up as much hysteria as possible. No surprise there.

They really are just going to repeat this lie repeatedly until it sticks.

Here’s the kicker, though.

There’s been an amusing follow-up to this story. On Wednesday, DeSantis’ press secretary, Jeremy Redfern, posted part of the AP African American studies curriculum—you know, the curriculum students had to receive in Florida to get real, not racist, history—on Twitter.

This was labeled “essential knowledge.”

here you have it. Not only was the whole “pro-slavery” thing based on pure nonsense, but the original rejected AP African American studies curriculum that Harris and the Left threw a tantrum over says essentially the same thing.

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