DeSantis Fires Back After Some Republicans Promote Kamala Harris’ ‘Lies’ About Florida Curriculum

Florida Governor Ron DeSantis fired back late this week at those who are promoting what he slammed as “lies” about Florida’s African American history curriculum in an apparent attempt to damage him politically as he campaigns for president.

The claims began circulating last weekend when Vice President Kamala Harris took a trip to Jacksonville, Florida, to attack the new curriculum, claiming that “in the state of Florida, they decided middle school students will be taught that enslaved people benefited from slavery.”

Harris seized on one sentence from the 216-page curriculum that noted that freed slaves at times used skills they learned and developed during slavery to help themselves later in their lives: “Instruction includes how slaves developed skills which, in some instances, could be applied for their personal benefit.”