In Florida, Kamala Harris blasts state’s controversial Black history standards – By Patrick Hilsman (UPI) / July 21, 2023
July 21 (UPI) — U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris went to Florida on Friday and denounced the state’s new standards on teaching Black history, saying, “They want to replace history with lies.”
In Jacksonville in what the White House said was an effort to “fight to protect fundamental freedoms, specifically, the freedom to learn and teach America’s full and true history,” Harris criticized the Florida Board of Education’s recent decision to adopt controversial standards on Black history.
Part of the new standards instruct educators to teach children about “how slaves developed skills which, in some instances, could be applied for their personal benefit.”
The changes were implemented based on Florida’s Stop Wrongs to Our Kids and Employees Act, commonly known as the Stop WOKE Act, which passed in 2022.
