Gov. Ron DeSantis offered an emphatic response to the Vice President Tuesday night during a Fox News hit.
In an interview on “Jesse Watters Primetime,” the Governor argued that Kamala Harris was perpetuating a “hoax” about Florida historical education standards about slavery.
“She hopped on that plane very quickly on Friday to come down to Florida to spew this hoax,” DeSantis said, referring to her speech in Jacksonville while he was in Utah for a campaign event.
The Governor claims Harris visited “to try to push a fake narrative about what Florida did.”
Harris took particular issue with language in the standards that argued slaves “benefited” from slavery by learning skills.
“Adults know what slavery really involved — come on! It involves rape. It involves torture. It involves taking a baby from their mother. It involved some of the worst examples of depriving people of humanity in our world. It involves subjecting people to the requirement that they would think of themselves as less than human,” Harris said.
“So in the context of that, how is it that anyone could suggest that in the midst of these atrocities, that there was any benefit to being subjected to this level of dehumanization?” she added. “That in the midst of these atrocities there were some benefits?”
For DeSantis, that argument was a non-starter.
“They talk in gory detail, a lot of the bad in American history, including of course the injustice of slavery, but she is trying to perpetuate a hoax and I know they’re using it to attack me because Biden’s administration and Harris has been attacking me since they got in office and they’re always attacking Florida.”
Earlier this year, DeSantis accused the Biden administration of being “obsessed” with his state as it ignores other problems, like border security and crime.
Harris, the first Black person to serve as Vice President, spoke from the Ritz Theater and Museum, located in a historically African American neighborhood of Jacksonville.
She described “true patriotism” as “fighting for a nation that will be better for each generation to come,” and she said schools would better prepare students for the world if they don’t gloss over historical crimes.
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Materieal from the Associated Press was used in this post.
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