A MASSIVE SELF-OWN FOR SENATOR SCOTT:
You show you’re worthy of the nomination by showing that you’re good at fighting Democrats, not other Republicans. Republican candidates take note. Including you, Donald.
UPDATE: Not a productive path for you guys:
I have vigorously defended Florida’s new education standards and put them in their proper and whole context. It is absolutely true the left has lied about and distorted the standards on slavery.
In fact, they have fixated on one ancillary point and ignored the hundred plus others that require teachers to teach the awful brutality of slavery, how the cotton gin and capitalism made slavery every worse, how capitalism ultimately began helping places move past slavery but the South stubbornly held on to an institution that was cruel, inefficient, and outmoded, and how people in Europe, Africa, and the Americas all collaborated to perpetuate the slave trade.
It is a thorough and comprehensive study of slavery. But it suggests that teachers also note while slave masters kept their slaves illiterate and devoid of mathematical training, the slaves still learned skills they could use to their betterment, both to escape slavery and after the Civil War. Harriet Tubman, for example, developed a strong Christian faith while in slavery and also skills including the use of the North Star for navigation, which she then used both to escape slavery and rescue others.
The left and media together have spun this as Ron DeSantis trying to absolve white people of the guilt of slavery and trying to minimize slavery. As I have previously noted, nothing could be further from the truth and the guidelines were developed by black teachers.
However, four out of five black Republicans in Congress, including Tim Scott, have criticized the guidelines based on the inaccurate press reports. Scott has vocally claimed there is nothing redeeming about slavery.
So either they’re dumb enough to trust the press on an issue like this, or they don’t care if it’s true and are just jumping on it for attention and advantage. Neither is a good look.
D
