Posted on 07/21/2023 6:28:09 PM PDT by Reno89519
Republican Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis scorched Vice President Kamala Harris with a scathing response after she repeated a popular but misleading narrative about the state's curriculum on slavery.
Harris claimed that DeSantis had instituted new standards that taught slaves benefitted from slavery and promised to do what she could to oppose the policy.
On Friday, DeSantis fired back.
"I thought it was absolutely ridiculous, it's totally outrageous," said the governor in a media briefing.
"You guys can look on the website at the Florida department of education, they got a lot of scholars together to do a lot of standards, and a lot of different things, but these are the most robust standards in African-American history, probably anywhere in the country," DeSantis continued.
"Anyone who reads that will see that it's very thorough, factual, and for them to try to demagogue it, look, that may have worked in the past, nobody's buying their nonsense anymore," he concluded.
Charles C.W. Cooke bolstered DeSantis' argument in the National Review by posting the voluminous standards applying to slavery to show how deceptive Harris' characterization was.
This is a brazen lie. It’s an astonishing lie. It’s an evil lie. It is so untrue — so deliberately and cynically misleading — that, in a sensible political culture, Harris would be obligated to issue an apology. Instead, NBC confirms that she will repeat the lie today during a speech in Jacksonville.
"There is simply no way of perusing this course and concluding that it 'gaslights' people or whitewashes slavery," Cooke concludes.
DeSantis also issued a statement on Twitter about the controversy:
"Democrats like Kamala Harris have to lie about Florida's educational standards to cover for their agenda of indoctrinating students and pushing sexual topics onto children. Florida stands in their way and we will continue to expose their agenda and their lies," he tweeted.
Instead of addressing DeSantis' argument, some on the left attacked him for having white people behind him at the media briefing.
DeSantis is running for president but has retooled his campaign after trailing frontrunner former President Donald Trump in the polls.
Only metaphorically, alas.
Republicans need to use stronger words such as hateful and lying.
Kamala’s family owned slaves
Kamala’s family owned slaves
Yes they did.
“Thank God My Granddaddy got on that boat!” - Muhammad Ali
It’s not “nonsense”. That’s way too timid sounding. These people are trying to turn us and the world into Chimerica. DeSantis talks like a rino who is intentionally missing the big picture.
Florida Statute
1003.42 Required instruction.—
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(2) Members of the instructional staff of the public schools, subject to the rules of the State Board of Education and the district school board, shall teach efficiently and faithfully, using the books and materials required that meet the highest standards for professionalism and historical accuracy, following the prescribed courses of study, and employing approved methods of instruction, the following:
(a) The history and content of the Declaration of Independence, including national sovereignty, natural law, self-evident truth, equality of all persons, limited government, popular sovereignty, and inalienable rights of life, liberty, and property, and how they form the philosophical foundation of our government.
(b) The history, meaning, significance, and effect of the provisions of the Constitution of the United States and amendments thereto, with emphasis on each of the 10 amendments that make up the Bill of Rights and how the constitution provides the structure of our government.
(c) The arguments in support of adopting our republican form of government, as they are embodied in the most important of the Federalist Papers.
(d) Flag education, including proper flag display and flag salute.
(e) The elements of civil government, including the primary functions of and interrelationships between the Federal Government, the state, and its counties, municipalities, school districts, and special districts.
(f) The history of the United States, including the period of discovery, early colonies, the War for Independence, the Civil War, the expansion of the United States to its present boundaries, the world wars, and the civil rights movement to the present. American history shall be viewed as factual, not as constructed, shall be viewed as knowable, teachable, and testable, and shall be defined as the creation of a new nation based largely on the universal principles stated in the Declaration of Independence.
(g)1. The history of the Holocaust (1933-1945), the systematic, planned annihilation of European Jews and other groups by Nazi Germany, a watershed event in the history of humanity, to be taught in a manner that leads to an investigation of human behavior, an understanding of the ramifications of prejudice, racism, and stereotyping, and an examination of what it means to be a responsible and respectful person, for the purposes of encouraging tolerance of diversity in a pluralistic society and for nurturing and protecting democratic values and institutions, including the policy, definition, and historical and current examples of anti-Semitism, as described in s. 1000.05(8), and the prevention of anti-Semitism. Each school district must annually certify and provide evidence to the department, in a manner prescribed by the department, that the requirements of this paragraph are met
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(h) The history of African Americans, including the history of African peoples before the political conflicts that led to the development of slavery, the passage to America, the enslavement experience, abolition, and the history and contributions of Americans of the African diaspora to society. Students shall develop an understanding of the ramifications of prejudice, racism, and stereotyping on individual freedoms, and examine what it means to be a responsible and respectful person, for the purpose of encouraging tolerance of diversity in a pluralistic society and for nurturing and protecting democratic values and institutions. Instruction shall include the roles and contributions of individuals from all walks of life and their endeavors to learn and thrive throughout history as artists, scientists, educators, businesspeople, influential thinkers, members of the faith community, and political and governmental leaders and the courageous steps they took to fulfill the promise of democracy and unite the nation. Instructional materials shall include the vital contributions of African Americans to build and strengthen American society and celebrate the inspirational stories of African Americans who prospered, even in the most difficult circumstances. Instructional personnel may facilitate discussions and use curricula to address, in an age-appropriate manner, how the individual freedoms of persons have been infringed by slavery, racial oppression, racial segregation, and racial discrimination, as well as topics relating to the enactment and enforcement of laws resulting in racial oppression, racial segregation, and racial discrimination and how recognition of these freedoms has overturned these unjust laws. However, classroom instruction and curriculum may not be used to indoctrinate or persuade students to a particular point of view inconsistent with the principles enumerated in subsection (3) or the state academic standards. The department shall prepare and offer standards and curriculum for the instruction required by this paragraph and may seek input from the Commissioner of Education’s African American History Task Force.
(i) The elementary principles of agriculture.
(j) The true effects of all alcoholic and intoxicating liquors and beverages and narcotics upon the human body and mind.
(k) Kindness to animals.
(l) The history of the state.
(m) The conservation of natural resources.
(n) Comprehensive age-appropriate and developmentally appropriate K-12 instruction on:
1. Health education that addresses concepts of community health, consumer health, environmental health, and family life....
(3) The Legislature acknowledges the fundamental truth that all persons are equal before the law and have inalienable rights. Accordingly, instruction and supporting materials on the topics enumerated in this section must be consistent with the following principles of individual freedom:
(a) No person is inherently racist, sexist, or oppressive, whether consciously or unconsciously, solely by virtue of his or her race or sex.
(b) No race is inherently superior to another race.
(c) No person should be discriminated against or receive adverse treatment solely or partly on the basis of race, color, national origin, religion, disability, or sex.
(d) Meritocracy or traits such as a hard work ethic are not racist but fundamental to the right to pursue happiness and be rewarded for industry.
(e) A person, by virtue of his or her race or sex, does not bear responsibility for actions committed in the past by other members of the same race or sex.
(f) A person should not be instructed that he or she must feel guilt, anguish, or other forms of psychological distress for actions, in which he or she played no part, committed in the past by other members of the same race or sex.
Instructional personnel may facilitate discussions and use curricula to address, in an age-appropriate manner, how the freedoms of persons have been infringed by sexism, slavery, racial oppression, racial segregation, and racial discrimination, including topics relating to the enactment and enforcement of laws resulting in sexism, racial oppression, racial segregation, and racial discrimination, including how recognition of these freedoms have overturned these unjust laws. However, classroom instruction and curriculum may not be used to indoctrinate or persuade students to a particular point of view inconsistent with the principles of this subsection or state academic standards.
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https://www.fldoe.org/core/fileparse.php/20653/urlt/6-4.pdf
Examples:
SS.912.AA.1.1 Examine the condition of slavery as it existed in Africa, Asia, the Americas and Europe prior to 1619.
Benchmark Clarifications:
Clarification 1: Instruction includes how trading in slaves developed in African lands (e.g., Benin, Dahomey).
Clarification 2: Instruction includes the practice of the Barbary Pirates in kidnapping Europeans and selling them into slavery in Muslim countries (i.e., Muslim slave markets in North Africa, West Africa, Swahili Coast, Horn of Africa, Arabian Peninsula, Indian Ocean slave trade).
Clarification 3: Instruction includes how slavery was utilized in Asian cultures (e.g., Sumerian law code, Indian caste system).
Clarification 4: Instruction includes the similarities between serfdom and slavery and emergence of the term “slave” in the experience of Slavs.
Clarification 5: Instruction includes how slavery among indigenous peoples of the Americas was utilized prior to and after European colonization.
SS.912.AA.1.4
Examine the development of slavery and describe the conditions for Africans during their passage to America.
Benchmark Clarifications:
Clarification 1: Instruction includes the Triangular Trade routes and the Middle Passage.
Clarification 2: Instruction includes the causes for the growth and development of slavery, primarily in the southern colonies.
Clarification 3: Instruction includes percentages of African diaspora within the New World colonies.
SS.912.AA.1.11 Examine different events in which Africans resisted slavery.
Benchmark Clarifications:
Clarification 1: Instruction includes the impact of revolts of the enslaved (e.g., the San Miguel de Gualdape Slave Rebellion [1526], the New York City Slave Uprising [1712]).
SS.912.AA.2.2
Explain how slave codes were strengthened in response to Africans’ resistance to slavery.
Benchmark Clarifications:
Clarification 1: Instruction includes early laws that impacted slavery and resistance (i.e., Louisiana’s Code Noir [1724], Stono Rebellion in [1739], South Carolina slave code [1740], Igbo Landing Mass Suicide [1803]).
Clarification 2: Instruction includes foreign and domestic influences on the institution of slavery (i.e., Haitian Revolution [1791-1804], The Preliminary Declaration from the Constitution of Haiti [1805], German Coast Uprising [1811], Louisiana Revolt of [1811]).
SS.912.AA.2.14 Compare the actions of Nat Turner, John Brown and Frederick Douglass and the direct responses to their efforts to end slavery.
SS.912.AA.3.6
Describe the emergence, growth, destruction and rebuilding of black communities during Reconstruction and beyond.
Benchmark Clarifications:
Clarification 1: Instruction includes the ramifications of prejudice, racism and stereotyping on individual freedoms (e.g., the Civil Rights Cases, Black Codes, Jim Crow Laws, lynchings, Columbian Exposition of 1893).
Clarification 2: Instruction includes acts of violence perpetrated against and by African Americans but is not limited to 1906 Atlanta Race Riot, 1919 Washington, D.C. Race Riot, 1920 Ocoee Massacre, 1921 Tulsa Massacre and the 1923 Rosewood Massacre.
Clarification 3: Instruction includes communities such as: Lincolnville (FL), Tullahassee (OK), Eatonville (FL).
Every time Kamala Harris opens her mouth, word salad and lies spew out. \/
Ya, but her hand gestures are brand new and vigorous !!!
( must have gotten an unemployed hollyweird coach. to train her up /-)
Another Kamala fan.
The Florida curriculum fully explores historical global slave trade in a multitude of cultures.
Eye opening and something leftists who want to keep the sheeple on the Democrat plantation can’t afford to have happen.
It’s part of the reason why DeSantis won by 20 points over Charlie Crist.
No they leased with a option to buy
GOP needs to grow a backbone.
So they still had slaves
When one of these mentally ill idiots open thier mouths a picture of senator kkk byrd with ted kennedy, hillary clinton and others form the rat party should immediately be held up or posted
She still thinks and talks like she’s kneeling under Willie Brown’s podium instead of standing at one with the seal of the US emblazoned on it.
Glad he did so, but you know what? 95% of America does NOT care about Florida’s curriculum.
The concerns are the illegal invasion, the dying economy for the middle class, the two-tiered justice system almost entirely centering on one person (not DeSoros), and the Uke war.
This is just one more reason why DeSoros is tanking. He hasn’t yet figured out America ain’t Florida and there are far bigger issues than woke-—and yes, I totally support the war on woke, but as an item of concern in any polling, it isn’t there.
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