Remember when Ron DeSantis’s board of education announced last month that new state standards would require schools to teach students that there were some benefits to being enslaved? And the Florida governor was blasted for it, not only by the “The Left,” but by fellow Republicans too? Because the idea of forcing teachers to tell kids that there were some silver linings to being human property is, to quote former GOP congressman Will Hurd, “insane”?
You might have thought that, given the bipartisan blowback, DeSantis would not be eager to keep this particular story in the news. But surprise! He apparently does, and his plan to keep people talking about it was to troll-invite Kamala Harris, the nation’s first Black vice president, to Florida for an “honest dialogue” about why it isn’t nuts to require school curricula to include a section on slavery not being all bad.
I don’t see why we need a “slavery was good” vs “slavery was bad” debate. For the same reason you don’t debate flat earth. It’s immoral to even position these arguments as debatable.
Seriously, what right wing issue-generator dart board did this whole topic spring up from?
The GOP gets their talking points through Russia, Saudi Arabia, China, Hungary and other fascist, anti-democracy, anti-multiracial society dictatorships.
In Hungary in 2010, Viktor Orban ran in a platform of ‘build the wall’ and ‘make Hungary great again’. Donald Trump literally just copied Orban’s campaign, and now the GOP is a full blown fascist party.
I'm being serious: Is this guy stupid?
DeSantis is speed running a mission of "how to blow up your campaign."
He does know that he's going to need more than just the white people who agree with him to win correct?
Harris rejects DeSantis’ offer to debate Florida’s new Black history standards
Vice President Kamala Harris on Tuesday rejected Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’ offer to debate the state’s recent guidelines on teaching the African American experience, calling him part of a group of “extremist, so-called leaders” trying to rewrite the “ugly parts of history.”
“They attempt to legitimize these unnecessary debates with a proposal that most recently came in of a politically motivated roundtable,” Harris said in her afternoon speech at the 20th Women’s Missionary Society of the African Methodist Episcopal Church Quadrennial Convention in Orlando. “Well, I’m here in Florida, and I will tell you there is no roundtable, no lecture, no invitation we will accept to debate an undeniable fact. There were no redeeming qualities of slavery.”
DeSantis is a torturer, human trafficker, and slavery apologist who can't get any traction running against a rapist with two impeachments and three felony indictments in his jacket. He doesn't deserve to be on the same stage as Harris.
At this rate, I won't be surprised if DeSantis advocates for the reinstatement of slavery in Florida.
To debate him implies this is debatable. Good for her for not taking the bait.
What's funny is he wants to debate a Democrat instead of his fellow Republicans when he's running for the GOP nomination first.
Harris says she won't debate DeSantis on new Black history standards in Florida
Vice President Harris publicly rejected the invitation from Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis to debate the new standards of Black history education in the state, which say that enslaved people could have benefited from slavery.
In Orlando at a convention for the African Methodist Episcopal Women's Missionary Society, Harris attacked "extremists" for passing laws that restrict abortion and the right to vote, and said now they "attempt to erase and even rewrite the ugly parts of our history."
Without mentioning DeSantis' name, Harris said Tuesday that the invite for a roundtable on the topic was an "attempt to legitimize these unnecessary debates" about slavery.
Of course not. There's nothing to debate. There were no benefits to being enslaved.
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