“Part of the reason our country has struggled is because D.C. Republicans all too often accept false narratives, accept lies that are perpetrated by the left,” DeSantis said.
Scott’s criticism of the DeSantis administration’s new black history program’s standards, which include instruction on how slaves “developed skills which, in some instances, could be applied for their personal benefit.”
“As a country founded upon freedom, the greatest deprivation of freedom was slavery,” Scott told a reporter following a forum with Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds . “There is no silver lining…in slavery,” he said, adding that slavery was about “separating families, about mutilating humans and even raping their wives.”
“It was just devastating. So I would hope that every person in our country — and certainly running for president — would appreciate that. “People have bad days. Sometimes they regret what they say. And we should ask them again to clarify their positions,” Scott said of DeSantis.a reporter last week that while he did not develop the new program, he stands by that it is “factual.
DeSantis tells me FL's new Black history standards are "rooted in whatever is factual," when I asked him his thoughts on middle school instruction on "how slaves developed skills which, in some instances, could be applied for their personal benefit" –
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