Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’ office has announced it will boycott both NBC News and MSNBC after chief Washington correspondent Andrea Mitchell said that DeSantis is attempting to prevent slavery from being taught in public schools during an interview with Vice President Kamala Harris.
Let me ask you, what does Governor Ron DeSantis not know about Black history and the Black experience when he says that slavery and the aftermath of slavery should not be taught to Florida schoolchildren?” Mitchell asked Harris last week.
“He has opposed the teaching of an African American studies curriculum as well as the use of some authors and source materials that historians and teachers say makes it all but impossible for students to understand the broader historic and political context behind slavery and its aftermath in the years since.”
DeSantis appears to be laying the groundwork for a presidential bid, recently flying to events in New York and Illinois. Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker, a Democrat, this week hit out at DeSantis’ efforts to limit what can be taught in schools.
“Ron DeSantis’s dangerous and hateful agenda has no place in Illinois,” Pritzker tweeted. “Banning books, playing politics with people’s lives, and censoring history are antithetical to who we are.” One Governor should not have the power to dictate the facts of U.S. history.
“DeSantis is really just Donald Trump with a mask on,” Pritzker said last year. “He’s trying to pass off his covert racism, homophobia and misogyny as a more reasonable form of Trump Republicanism.”
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