Bear in mind when Ron DeSantis’s board of training introduced final month that new state requirements would require colleges to show college students that there have been some advantages to being enslaved? And the Florida governor was blasted for it, not solely by the “The Left,” however by fellow Republicans too? As a result of the concept of forcing academics to inform youngsters that there have been some silver linings to being human property is, to cite former GOP congressman Will Hurd, “insane”?
You might need thought that, given the bipartisan blowback, DeSantis wouldn’t be keen to maintain this explicit story within the information. However shock! He apparently does, and his plan to maintain folks speaking about it was to troll-invite Kamala Harris, the nation’s first Black vp, to Florida for an “trustworthy dialogue” about why it isn’t nuts to require college curricula to incorporate a bit on slavery not being all dangerous.
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By the way, it ought to be famous that the person DeSantis proposed Harris chat with, William Allen, as soon as gave a chat at a convention entitled “Blacks? Animals? Homosexuals? What’s a Minority?” He was additionally charged with kidnapping a 14-year-old from an indigenous reservation in Arizona; he later apologized however insisted he would “not assume duty” for what had occurred.
Anyway, Harris is not going to be touring to Florida to talk with him or anybody else in regards to the silver linings of slavery.
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