White House: Florida’s New History Curriculum Is ‘Inaccurate, Insulting’
Biden press secretary latest to denounce teaching of "benefits" to slaves
The White House trained rhetorical fire Monday on Florida’s Republican governor and other state officials who are seeking to change school curriculum to teach that slaves personally benefited from their bondage.
Gov Ron DeSantis, running for his party's presidential nomination, has been outspoken over his “war on woke,” including changing the way Black history is approached in the Sunshine State.
Among the changes approved Wednesday by the Florida state board of education was a section of "benchmark clarifications," and among those was one that states “instruction includes how slaves developed skills which, in some instances, could be applied for their personal benefit.”
Vice President Kamala Harris traveled to Florida Friday to forcefully rebuke the new, controversial Black history standards.
And White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre took the issue on personally Monday during the regular press briefing.
She said that Florida is “promoting a lie that enslaved people actually benefited from slavery.”
“It’s inaccurate, insulting. It’s hurtful and prevents an honest account of our nation’s history,” Jean-Pierre said. “In Jacksonville on Friday, you heard from the Vice President, Vice President Harris. And she said this is an attempt by extremists to push an agenda that continues to attack Americans’ freedom to learn our true and full history, and it will not stand for it — we will not stand for it.
“The Biden-Harris administration will continue to speak out against hateful attempts to rewrite our history and strongly oppose any actions that threaten to divide us and take our country backwards,” Jean-Pierre added.
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