Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis issued a letter to Vice President Kamala Harris on Monday, inviting her to discuss her criticisms of the state’s new African American History education standards.
Harris spoke about the standards in Jacksonville earlier this month, decrying the curriculum as “propaganda.”
Her trip came two days after the Florida Board of Education approved a revised African American History curriculum to satisfy legislation signed by DeSantis. The new standards include instruction that enslaved people were able to use skills they learned for personal benefit.
“How is it that anyone could suggest that in the midst of these atrocities that there was any benefit to being subjected to this level of dehumanization?” Harris asked during her trip to Jacksonville.
