Florida government officials and Sunshine State governor Ron DeSantis are “digging in and defending the state’s new standards for teaching Black History amid continued widespread criticism,” Politico reported. Their job has been made marginally more difficult by virtue of the opportunism displayed by some of the GOP’s long-shot presidential aspirants, who seem to be laboring under the delusion that their candles will shine brighter if DeSantis’s is snuffed out.
During an interview with CNN’s Kaitlan Collins, former congressman Will Hurd was confronted with the monolith view of the state’s amendments to the public-school curriculum that prevails in the press. The state has allegedly committed itself to a pedagogy that maintains chattel slavery in the antebellum South had some redeeming features. Rather than reject the premise and educate CNN’s viewers on what the curriculum actually entails, perhaps winning the respect of Republican primary voters in the process, Hurd took the gift-wrapped opportunity to tee off on DeSantis:
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