Kamala Harris traded her disingenuous cackle for a disingenuous shriek over the weekend

when she attacked Florida Governor Ron DeSantis over his state's new curriculum which she insists

praises the benefits of slavery. This is unnecessary to debate whether

enslaved people benefited from slavery. Are you kidding me?

Are we supposed to debate that?

Let us not be distracted by what they're trying to do which is to create unnecessary debates

to divide our country. Now of course that is not what the curriculum states. We've got the text

that the new Florida standard state quote, instructional materials shall include the vital

contributions of African Americans to build and strengthen American society and celebrate

the inspirational stories of African Americans who prospered even in the most difficult circumstances.

These supposedly controversial section that Kamala was referring to simply acknowledges that

quote, slaves developed skills which in some instances could be applied for their personal benefit

which is obviously true. This is the thesis of Booker T. Washington's book Up From Slavery.

This is the premise of much of Frederick Douglass's writing. This is what was going through

the mind of the black historian William B. Allen when he wrote the supposedly racist offensive

standards. What's more important than that dishonest purpose is the truth and this curriculum is

devoted to telling the truth whereas Kamala Harris has retailed a lie. Now it may only have been a

falsehood the first time she stated it but when you repeat a falsehood it becomes a lie. This

curriculum is about is having people who live the experience who live the history tell their stories

and nothing is more important than that we never ever erase the stories that the people who

live the stories tell. No one has a right to interpret before first understanding the stories as

the people who live them understood them themselves. The biggest problem with Kamala's attack is not

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