“Governor DeSantis started this fire,' the former New Jersey governor and GOP presidential hopeful said.
on “how slaves developed skills which, in some instances, could be applied for their personal benefit.”
DeSantis, who advocated the 2022 “Stop Woke Act” and other policies that led to curriculum changes in the state’s schools, addressed the backlashlast week, saying: “I didn’t do it. I wasn’t involved in it. … I think that they’re probably going to show some of the folks that eventually parlayed, you know, being a blacksmith into, into doing things later in life.”
Christie also criticized his party for focusing on “smaller issues” like “micromanaging curriculum in schools,” instead of concentrating attention on issues like inflation and falling test scores in schools.
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