Kamala Harris rejects Ron DeSantis offer to discuss slavery curriculum – By Martin Pengelly (The Guardian) / Aug 2, 2023
Vice-president says she will not accept invitation ‘to debate an undeniable fact: there were no redeeming qualities of slavery’
Kamala Harris fired back at the Florida governor, Ron DeSantis, after he invited her to discuss new school standards for the teaching of African American history which claim some enslaved people derived benefits that could be used in later life.
“There is no roundtable, no lecture, no invitation we will accept to debate an undeniable fact: there were no redeeming qualities of slavery,” the vice-president said.
Harris, the first woman and first person of colour to be vice-president, was speaking in Florida, at a convention of the Women’s Missionary Society of the African Methodist Episcopal Church in Orlando on Tuesday.
Harris had previously attacked the Florida school standards, saying last month the state was “pushing propaganda” at children.
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