Another Kalama LIE! Top Black Academic Co-Created Florida’s African American History Curriculum Calls VP Harris’ Remarks “Categorically false”
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VP Harris ignited a false narrative last week when she took a trip to Jacksonville, Florida, to attack the new curriculum, falsely claiming that “in the state of Florida, they decided middle school students will be taught that enslaved people benefited from slavery.”
Harris grasped on one sentence from the 216-page curriculum that noted how freed slaves utilized skills they accomplished and developed during slavery to aid themselves later in their lives: “Instruction includes how slaves developed skills which, in some instances, could be applied for their personal benefit.”
The College Board included a similar item in its course framework for AP African American Studies for 2023-2024. The curriculum identifies as “essential knowledge”: “In addition to agricultural work, enslaved people learned specialized trades and worked as painters, carpenters, tailors, musicians, and healers in the North and South. Once free, American Americans used these skills to provide for themselves and others.”
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