Florida Governor Ron DeSantis has accused Vice President Kamala Harris of spreading a “hoax” about Florida’s historical education standards on slavery.
In an interview on “Jesse Watters Primetime“, DeSantis criticized Harris for her recent speech in Jacksonville, Florida Politics reports.
DeSantis’s Response: DeSantis argued that Harris had quickly flown to Florida “to spew this hoax” and “to try to push a fake narrative about what Florida did.”
He was referring to Harris’s criticism of the language in Florida’s education standards that suggested slaves “benefited” from slavery by learning skills.
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Harris’s Argument: Harris had strongly condemned this perspective. She questioned how anyone could suggest that there were any benefits amidst such atrocities.
“Adults know what slavery really involved — come on! It involves rape. It involves torture. It involves taking a baby from their mother. It involved some of the worst examples of depriving people of humanity in our world,” Harris said.
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