Harris implies key black academic in Florida’s curriculum is dishonest about African American history.
Vice President Kamala Harris Accuses Black Academic of Lying About Florida’s African American History Curriculum
In a recent interview, Vice President Kamala Harris made controversial remarks suggesting that a prominent black academic involved in Florida’s African American history curriculum was spreading falsehoods.
The criticism came after Dr. William Allen, a former chairman of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights and member of Florida’s African American History Standards Workgroup, publicly criticized Harris for distorting the curriculum. Harris had cherry-picked a single sentence from the extensive 216-page outline to support her false claims.
ABC News reporter Linsey Davis presented Dr. Allen’s comments in a favorable light, stating that he merely suggested Harris’ position was ”ideological posturing.”
Challenging Harris’ Claims
Davis asked Harris for her response to Dr. Allen’s remarks, to which Harris insinuated that Allen was not being truthful.
“Well, I think that this is just a matter of whether one chooses to speak fact and truth or not, and it’s pretty much that simple,” Harris asserted. “I don’t think that this is subject to any ideological debate to say that people who were enslaved did not benefit from slavery, period.”
Harris continued, emphasizing the absurdity of having to state the obvious: “There are so-called leaders, extremists, who are attempting to require in our nation an unnecessary debate with the intention, I believe, to try and divide us as Americans. Stop. Stop.”
Watch the interview below:
EXCLUSIVE: VP Harris on controversial Black history standards approved by Florida’s board of education: “I don’t think that this is subject to any ideological debate to say that people who were enslaved did not benefit from slavery, period.”
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Dr. Allen responded to Harris’ claims by suggesting that they were part of a larger agenda-driven effort.
“The reason I call the vice president’s statements categorically false is because it is obvious to anyone with basic literacy that the mere grammar of the sentence in the curriculum standards she referred to refutes her charge,” Dr. Allen explained in an interview with Fox News.
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