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The ReidOut with Joy Reid

Activists battle againt the erasure of Black history in Florida

The ReidOut with Joy Reid

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🗓️ 16 February 2023

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

Joy Reid leads The ReidOut tonight with the demonstration sparked by Florida Gov. DeSantis attempting block an AP course in African American studies, saying it "lacks educational value." Rev. Al Sharpton, who led the protest, plus many other figures and activists in this battle againt the erasure of Black history, join Joy live from Tallahassee where this act of resistance took place earlier on Wednesday.

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0:00.0

The state of Florida is where woke goes to die.

0:08.8

This course on Black History, what are one of the lessons about queer theory?

0:15.9

Now who would say that an important part of Black History is queer theory?

0:21.9

That is somebody pushing an agenda on our kids.

0:24.6

You mean to tell me that the history of those people is in a way?

0:28.6

The history of America is an important point because it's not really Black History, it's

0:33.4

the history of America.

0:34.4

Honestly, you don't know what he's talking about.

0:36.7

Can you imagine someone saying that European studies or Western civilizations has no inherent

0:45.8

value whatsoever?

0:47.2

We have teachers who are not able to teach the curriculum that they want because they

0:51.2

disagree with Rhonda Santos and his view of the world.

0:55.3

That is limiting free speech.

0:56.6

They are trying to shield students from the truth about history.

1:00.4

We are nothing without our history, which is exactly why conservatives are going after

1:05.3

public education in America to erase, dismantle, and rewrite the true account of our past.

1:12.9

What happened on this soil, the oppression that was fought, and overcome, and which shaped

1:18.3

who we are and the very moment we are in?

1:22.1

History is vital, as is knowledge.

1:25.0

That's why education is so often ground zero in the U.S. culture wars.

1:30.0

And why Florida Governor Ron DeSantis' apparent White House ambition strikes at the heart

1:35.9

of the American classroom.

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