DeSantis vindicated on critical race theory in schools

Judging by the headlines, you’d have thought Gov. Ron DeSantis  (R-FL) had banned any mention of black history in Florida public schools. But of course, the headlines are not to be trusted when left-biased journalists get going.

“Ron DeSantis wants to erase black history,”  declared  the New York Times. “Ron DeSantis blocks African American studies,”  said  CNN. “Blocking black history is an attempt to counter Black Power,”  wrote  the Washington Post. White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre  accused  DeSantis of attempting to “block” the “study of black Americans.”

All of these claims were completely false. Florida’s academic standards specifically require teaching “the history of African peoples,” including “the passage to America,” “the enslavement experience,” and “how the individual freedoms of persons have been infringed by slavery, racial oppression, racial segregation, and racial discrimination.”