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The Viewco-hostAna Navarrodid not hold back on her anger with Florida Gov.Ron DeSantisover the state’snew academic standardthat requires middle schools to teach Florida students that enslaved people “developed skills” that “could be applied for their personal benefit.”
“I live in Florida, I have been spitting mad about the culture wars that Ron DeSantis has been creating, so when he says he has nothing to do with it, that’s bulls—,” Navarro said on Monday’s show before the audio cut out for five seconds to censor her profanity. “He has created the environment that’s led to this.”
“What they say is the updated standards now say that enslaved people developed skills that could be applied for their personal benefit. Slavery was the darkest moment of American history. Our biggest shame,” she continued. “People got torn from their homelands. Men, women, newborns, put in the bowels of ships, shackled, made to row from Africa to America, then brought here and sold like chattel, separated from their children, beat, whipped, worked to death, raped. How dare you? Shame on you people in Florida! How dare you try to whitewash slavery?"
“When you don’t have freedom, you don’t have anything,” she added. “And for this man, Ron DeSantis, whose apparently only skill that he’s acquired is lying and creating culture wars that he thinks are going to make him president — they’re not, buddy. That’s why you’re 30 points down.”
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, who is vying for the Republican nomination for president in 2024.SUZANNE CORDEIRO/AFP via Getty
SUZANNE CORDEIRO/AFP via Getty
“I didn’t do it and I wasn’t involved in it,”he said on Friday during a press conference.Speaking about what the curriculum will look like in practice, he said, “They’re probably going to show that some of the folks that eventually parlayed, you know, being a blacksmith into doing things later in life," DeSantis added that “scholars” put together the standards, which he said were “rooted in whatever is factual.”
Whoopi Goldberg,The View’smoderator, also commented on the topic, calling DeSantis a “disgrace.”
“We’re telling you this history, it’s our American history, because you need to know so we don’t repeat it. And here you come, DeSantis, trying to repeat it,” she said. “You know what? As long as the Smithsonian is standing, as long as there are books, as long as there are families, because, remember, we didn’t have books, all these stories come to us from our families. You don’t call our families liars. They know what happened, because their grandma’s grandma’s grandma’s grandma told them. You, sir, are — I can’t even say the word — you’re a disgrace.”
The segment also included a video of Vice PresidentKamala Harris’reaction to the new educational guidelineswhen she spoke at a convention on Thursday, calling the policy one that promotes “revisionist history.”
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“Speaking of our children, extremists pass book bans to prevent them from learning our true history – book bans in this year of our Lord 2023,” Harris, 58,said. “And while they do this, check it out, they push forward revisionist history.”
“Just yesterday in the state of Florida, they decided middle school students will be taught that enslaved people benefited from slavery,” Harris continued. “They insult us in an attempt to gaslight us, and we will not stand for it.”
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The standards at the center of the controversy, which were approved Wednesday, come in response to the state’s 2022 “Stop WOKE Act,” which stated that race must be taught in “an objective manner” that does not “indoctrinate or persuade students to a particular point of view.”
source: people.com
