1/24/23: DeSantis Bans Black History, George Santos Lies Again and Again
The David Pakman Show
David Pakman
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ποΈ 24 January 2023
β±οΈ 61 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | So the Florida Department of Education recently decided to ban AP African American history. |
| 0:23.1 | Now AP is relevant here. |
| 0:25.0 | That means advance placement. |
| 0:26.6 | These are not only elective courses, but they are above and beyond that courses that |
| 0:32.9 | depending on whether you take the AP test can actually go towards college credit. |
| 0:37.6 | Optional, elective and a very small percentage of students take these courses. |
| 0:42.0 | And the reason that Florida Governor Ron DeSantis is now giving for the reason that this class |
| 0:46.6 | has been banned is completely and totally absurd. |
| 0:50.6 | The department says that the class was teaching students activism, intersectionality, encouraging |
| 0:58.8 | the war, encouraging ending the war on black, trans, queer and gender nonconforming and |
| 1:05.4 | intersects people that it's queer theory and that it is indoctrination. |
| 1:10.4 | Now again, this is not a mandatory class that's being pushed on anybody. |
| 1:16.3 | It's an elective class that students can choose to take if this is subject matter they are |
| 1:21.2 | interested in and they are issues that should be determined from within the community, |
| 1:28.0 | not by Ron DeSantis in terms of what is taught. |
| 1:31.4 | DeSantis was asked about it during a press conference and here is what he had to say. |
| 1:36.6 | Don't go on the AP African American studies course was rejected by the state. |
| 1:46.6 | This is exactly what we are fearing with the individual freedom bill. |
| 1:48.6 | I don't know if you or the commissioner could expand a little bit more about that. |
| 1:53.6 | Sure, I think so. |
| 1:54.6 | As you know, in the state of Florida our education standards not only don't prevent but they |
| 1:59.9 | require teaching black history, all the important things that's part of our core curriculum. |
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