INDEPENDENT
Florida Governor Ron DeSantisdefended a hard-right school curriculumthat went into effect in his state this week while on the campaign trail for the Republican presidential nomination.
At an event in Utah, Governor DeSantis defended how slavery will now be taught in Florida middle schools. Children will now be taught that enslaved persons picked up skills that they later “parlayed” into profitable crafts after slavery was abolished.
“They’re probably going to show that some of the folks that eventually parlayed, you know, being a blacksmith into doing things later in life,” Mr DeSantis told reporters on Friday.
However at the same press conference, the GOP candidate also appeared to back away from the specific assertions of the teachings, saying of the curriculum: “I didn’t do it. I wasn’t involved in it.”
He went on to say that the curriculum was “rooted in whatever is factual”…
