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CNN conservative political commentator Scott Jennings criticized Vice President Kamala Harris for claiming Florida’s new middle school black history curriculum includes lessons “that enslaved people benefited from slavery.”
On Sunday’s edition of “State of the Union,” CNN anchor Dana Bash played video of Harris making remarks in Jacksonville, Florida, after the state Board of Education voted Wednesday on the new curriculum on black history.
It includes teaching that “slaves developed skills which, in some instances, could be applied for their personal benefit” — and requires teaching “acts of violence perpetrated against and by African Americans,” according to Mediaite.
“Just yesterday in the state of Florida, they decided middle school students will be taught that enslaved people benefited from slavery,” Harris said, according to Fox News. “They insult us in an attempt to gaslight us, and we will not stand for it.”
Jennings slammed the veep and claimed the controversy over the new curriculum is a “made-up deal.”
“Well, it’s amazing to me that how little Kamala Harris apparently has to do, that she can read something on Twitter one day and be on an airplane the next to make something literally out of nothing,” he said, according to a transcript posted by Mediaite.
“This is a completely made-up deal. I looked at the standards. I even looked at an analysis of the standards in every instance where the word slavery or slave was used,” he said.
“I even read the statement of the African American scholars that wrote the standards, not [Gov.] Ron DeSantis, but the scholars. Everybody involved in this says this is completely a fabricated issue. And yet look how quickly Kamala Harris jumped on it,” Jennings continued.
“So, the fact that this is her best moment, a fabricated matter, is pretty ridiculous,” he added.
But fellow commentator Karen Finney called Harris’ remarks a “stellar moment.”
“I think she did something that she has done often in the last couple of years, which is in a moment when something needed to be said, she got out there and said it, and really channeled what people were feeling,” Finney said, according to Fox News…
