(Corine Gatti, Headline USA) Vice President Kamala Harris has repeatedly double-downed on her roundly criticized and demonstrably false claims about Florida’s African-American educational curriculum that was implemented under Republican presidential candidate Ron DeSantis, and the governor slapped back this week with an epic response.
Historians on both sides of the aisle noted the single line in the 200-plus pages of the curriculum that “slaves developed skills which, in some instances, could be applied for their personal benefit” was a fabricated issue by Harris to gain political points.
“The only criticism I’ve encountered so far is a single one that was articulated by the vice president, and which was an error,” Dr. William Allen, who helped write the curriculum and who is a descendant of slaves, said when Harris first launched her gaslighting the Florida curriculum.
DeSantis called Harris’s bluff with a one-two combo that mixed sugar and spice, inviting her to Florida to personally talk about the curriculum on one hand, while with the other slamming Harris for having repeatedly “disparaged our state and misinformed Americans about our education system.”
He even invited Harris to bring along left-wing teachers union boss Randi Weingarten to join the conversation on a visit to Florida, where “we are unafraid to have an open and honest dialogue about the issues,” but said he understood the VP’s busy schedule “should you already have a trip to the Southern border planned for that day” with a dig at Harris’s failed stint as the Biden regime’s border czar.
“Florida is the number one state in the nation for education. We’ve achieved this by making record investments in our students, teachers, and schools and by enacting universal school choice,” DeSantis wrote Monday in a letter to Harris. “Our approach has empowered parents and families, who are actively disenfranchised in many other states around the nation. But we’ve also secured the top spot nationally in education by returning to the fundamentals.”
The GOP presidential candidate defended Florida and backed up the its curriculum standard.
“Our state pushed forward nation-leading standalone African American History standards—one of the only states in the nation to require this level of learning about such an important subject,” he wrote in the letter. “But instead, you have attempted to score cheap political points and label Florida parents ‘extremists.'”
DeSantis used the letter as a forum to rip “hateful Marxist theories like ‘Critical Race Theory'” that he said had been “rooted out from our classrooms,” adding that “We have eliminated ‘Diversity, Equity and Inclusion’ initiatives in school administration and hiring practices. We have, instead, focused on the basics of reading, writing, arithmetic, science, civics and history.”
DeSantis finished the letter with another swipe, while extending an inviting hand.
“What an example we could set for the nation—a serious conversation on the substance of an important issue!” he wrote to Harris. “I hope you’re feeling up to it.”
NEW: FL Gov @RonDeSantis has invited VP Kamala Harris to meet with him in FL to discuss the state’s new black history curriculum, which she has criticized as “propaganda”. Says he’s ready to meet as soon as Weds., unless she has “a trip to the southern border planned that day.” pic.twitter.com/pxe6KVbQfJ
— Bill Melugin (@BillMelugin_) August 1, 2023
