(Townhall) Well, it looks like Vice President Kamala Harris will continue to mislead the American people about Florida’s educational standards, specifically when it comes to African-American History.
As we covered earlier on Tuesday, Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL) on Monday sent the vice president a letter inviting her to come speak with him and Dr. William Allen, one of the people who helped put the curriculum together. Allen is black and descended from slaves. Less than 24 hours later, though, Harris declined the governor’s invitation.
“It’s past time to set the record straight.”@GovRonDeSantis is inviting @VP to Florida to discuss our new African American history standards with him and Dr. Allen.
Read Governor DeSantis’ letter below: pic.twitter.com/o2W69iJ5il
— Jeremy Redfern (@JeremyRedfernFL) August 1, 2023
Harris was once again in Florida on Tuesday, this time speaking at the African Methodist Episcopal Women’s Missionary Convention in Orlando. In repeating her hysterical claim that “we even see extremists ban books and attempt to erase and even rewrite the ugly parts of our history,” she once more called out how Florida supposedly teaches slavery.
“Right here in Florida,” she said, “right here in Florida, they plan to teach students that enslaved people benefited from slavery. They insult us in an attempt to gaslight us in an attempt to divide and distract our nation with unnecessary debates. And now they attempt to legitimize these unnecessary debates with a proposal that most recently came in of a politically motivated roundtable.”
It was then that she turned down DeSantis’ offer. “Well, I’m here in Florida,” Harris said to applause. 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.”
The vice president also turned to another line she’s used ad nauseam in her remarks lately. “And as I said last week when I was again here in Florida: We will not stop calling out and fighting back against extremist so-called leaders who try to prevent our children from learning our true and full history,” she declared about “extremist so-called leaders.”
Even while Harris continues to mislead about the standards, she offered a hopeful message to the crowd. “And so, in this moment, let us remember: It is in the darkness that the candle shines most brightly,” she said as she moved on in her remarks. “So, let us not be distracted. Let us not be deterred. And let us have faith in who we are as a nation. Let us agree that the true measure of strength is not based on who you beat down but who you lift up,” she said, even as she and others who repeat her claims about the standards are the ones who are “distracted” by their own narratives.
Apparently speaking with one of the people instrumental for the curriculum, who again is black and descended from slaves, so as to clear up misconceptions, is “gaslight[ing].” Harris could learn a thing or two about the standards, but she’d rather continue with a narrative to suit her political whims.
We do not need to debate: There were no redeeming qualities of slavery. pic.twitter.com/ywfnKeyfKk
— Vice President Kamala Harris (@VP) August 1, 2023
Extremists attempt to divide our nation with unnecessary debates.
But I have news for them: We will not be distracted — and we will not be deterred. pic.twitter.com/tnCzOyzb3R
— Vice President Kamala Harris (@VP) August 1, 2023
It isn’t merely DeSantis looking to set the record straight on the standards. The two tweets shared to her official account were met with thousands of replies and quoted retweets calling her out.
