“There is no roundtable, no lecture, no invitation we will accept to debate the undeniable fact: There were no redeeming qualities to slavery,” the veep tweeted Tuesday.
stipulates that “instruction includes how slaves developed skills which, in some instances, could be applied for their personal benefit.”
“That’s not what the curriculum says,” DeSantis shot back during a tour in Iowa last week when a reporter asked if there were “beneficial aspects” to slavery. DeSantis has drawn backlash from many Republicans, including his fellow 2024 contenders, over Florida’s new curriculum.“That particular provision about the skills, that was in spite of slavery not because of. The AP course has made that same point,” he added.
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