{"id":1982266,"date":"2023-07-25T14:19:05","date_gmt":"2023-07-25T18:19:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/black-co-author-of-florida-curriculum-blasts-kamala-harris-for-slavery-comments\/"},"modified":"2023-07-25T14:19:49","modified_gmt":"2023-07-25T18:19:49","slug":"black-co-author-of-florida-curriculum-blasts-kamala-harris-for-slavery-comments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/black-co-author-of-florida-curriculum-blasts-kamala-harris-for-slavery-comments\/","title":{"rendered":"Black Florida curriculum co-author criticizes Kamala Harris over slavery remarks."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fblack-co-author-of-florida-curriculum-blasts-kamala-harris-for-slavery-comments%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1982266&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>A Black Professor Accuses \u2063Vice President Kamala \u200bHarris of \u2063Lying \u200dAbout Slavery<\/h2>\n<p>A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/new-jersey-prof-files-racial-discrimination-lawsuit-claims-less-qualified-black-colleagues-are-paid-more\/\" title=\"New Jersey Prof Files Racial Discrimination Lawsuit, Claims Less-Qualified Black Colleagues Are Paid More\">black professor<\/a> and member of the Florida African American History Standards\u2063 Workgroup, Dr. William\u2062 Allen, has accused Vice President Kamala \u200bHarris of spreading \u2062falsehoods about\u2064 the history \u200cof slavery. In an interview with\u2063 Fox \u2063News&#8217;s Jesse Watters, Dr. \u200dAllen emphasized that\u2064 the newly approved curriculum in\u2062 Florida aims to tell the truth about slavery and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/d-c-public-schools-use-black-lives-matter-curricula-to-teach-black-history-month\/\" title=\"D.C. Public Schools Use Black Lives Matter Curricula To Teach Black History Month\">black history<\/a>, while Harris has perpetuated a lie.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;The curriculum is devoted to telling\u200d the truth whereas Kamala Harris has\u2062 retold a lie,&#8221; said Dr. Allen.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h3>Harris&#8217;s Criticism of the Updated Curriculum<\/h3>\n<p>Last week, \u200bVice President\u200d Harris\u2063 criticized the \u2064Florida Board of Education&#8217;s \u2063decision to update the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/oregon-dems-eliminate-requirement-that-high-schoolers-prove-they-can-read-write\/\" title=\"Oregon Dems Eliminate Requirement That High Schoolers Prove They Can Read, Write\">school standards<\/a> for \u2064teaching \u200cslavery. The revised curriculum now includes instruction on how slaves benefited from the skills they acquired. Harris\u2062 condemned this \u2062section \u2063as an insult and an attempt to gaslight the public.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;This is an insult. This is not telling the truth\u200c about what happened,&#8221; \u200cHarris stated.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h3>Dr. Allen&#8217;s Response<\/h3>\n<p>Dr.\u2062 Allen\u200b vehemently \u200crefuted \u200bHarris&#8217;s claims about the curriculum, calling them\u200b an &#8220;absolute falsehood.&#8221; He also expressed concern that her \u2062comments were erasing the stories of black Americans who persevered and sought opportunities\u200d despite their enslavement.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;The accomplishments of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/black-co-author-of-florida-curriculum-blasts-kamala-harris-for-slavery-comments\/\" title=\"Black Florida curriculum co-author criticizes Kamala Harris over slavery remarks.\">black people\u200d post-slavery<\/a> were not just\u200b the accomplishments of black Americans,\u2062 but the accomplishments of American principles,&#8221; \u2064Dr. Allen explained. &#8220;And that is \u200bthe truth that people seek to deny by erasing the stories\u2062 of those who lived through history.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Dr. Allen\u200b also criticized \u2064Harris for failing to acknowledge the resilience \u2063and achievements of black Americans in \u200dher\u200d remarks.<\/p>\n<h3>Harris&#8217;s Visit to Florida<\/h3>\n<p>During her visit to Florida,\u200c Vice President \u2063Harris did \u200bnot\u200b directly attribute the curriculum change \u2062to Governor Ron DeSantis. However, she did refer \u200cto the state&#8217;s leaders as &#8220;extremists.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>According to Fox News, Dr. Allen also spoke to ABC \u200cNews about Harris&#8217;s comments on slavery,\u2062 but the interview was\u2062 never aired.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A black professor, Dr. William Allen, part of Florida&#8217;s African American History Standards Workgroup, accused Vice President Kamala Harris of lying about slavery&#8217;s history. He stated that the approved curriculum, focused on teaching students about slavery and black history, is solely dedicated to this purpose.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1982267,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[538],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1982266","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-washington-examiner"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1982266","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1982266"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1982266\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1982267"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1982266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1982266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1982266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}