{"id":1986241,"date":"2023-07-30T14:11:01","date_gmt":"2023-07-30T18:11:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/desantis-2024-rivals-blast-new-florida-curriculum-about-slavery\/"},"modified":"2023-07-30T14:11:36","modified_gmt":"2023-07-30T18:11:36","slug":"desantis-2024-rivals-blast-new-florida-curriculum-about-slavery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/desantis-2024-rivals-blast-new-florida-curriculum-about-slavery\/","title":{"rendered":"Critics slam DeSantis&#8217; Florida curriculum on slavery."},"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\">14<\/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%2Fdesantis-2024-rivals-blast-new-florida-curriculum-about-slavery%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=1986241&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>2024\u2064 Presidential\u2062 Candidates Condemn Florida&#8217;s New Teaching\u2062 Standards on Slavery<\/h2>\n<p>A\u2064 number \u200dof <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/candace-owens-teases-presidential-run\/\" title=\"Candace Owens Teases Presidential Run\">potential 2024 presidential candidates<\/a> are speaking out against\u2064 Florida&#8217;s controversial new teaching standards regarding \u2063slavery. While Governor Ron DeSantis (R-FL) has not\u2062 explicitly denounced the curriculum, former Texas Rep. Will \u200cHurd, former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley, and \u2063entrepreneur\u200c Vivek Ramaswamy have criticized the inclusion of discussions on the &#8220;personal\u200d benefits&#8221; \u2064of slavery.<\/p>\n<p>The curriculum&#8217;s\u200d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/desantis-2024-rivals-blast-new-florida-curriculum-about-slavery\/\" title=\"Critics slam DeSantis' Florida curriculum on slavery.\">official clarification states<\/a> that it \u2063includes instruction on\u2063 how \u2062slaves developed skills that could be\u200c applied \u2063for\u2063 their personal benefit. However, this perspective has faced heavy criticism from black Republicans such as Hurd, Sen. Tim Scott (R-SC), and Rep. Byron Donalds\u200b (R-FL).<\/p>\n<p>In \u200dan interview with\u2063 Chuck Todd on Meet the Press, Hurd expressed his strong \u2064opposition, stating, &#8220;Slavery is not a jobs program,\u200b and anybody that is implying that there was an upside \u2063to slavery\u200c is insane.&#8221; He further \u2062criticized DeSantis\u200d for \u200bdefending the curriculum and shifting blame onto its authors instead of taking personal responsibility.<\/p>\n<p>Haley echoed Hurd&#8217;s sentiments, emphasizing the \u200bimportance of acknowledging that &#8220;no positives\u2062 came\u2062 out of slavery.&#8221; She urged the governor to make this clear in\u200c his statements.\u2064 Ramaswamy, on the other\u200b hand, focused on the \u2062need to teach slavery\u200b as a dark \u200bperiod in American \u2062history without any positive connotations.<\/p>\n<p>Hurd also raised concerns about DeSantis&#8217;s &#8220;hateful rhetoric&#8221; \u200cand \u2062its potential impact \u2063on his support from black\u200d and brown communities, \u200cas well\u2063 as\u200d the LGBT community. He \u2062pointed to a DeSantis staffer who was fired after sharing a controversial video featuring a\u200b Nazi symbol, emphasizing that this was not an \u2062isolated incident.<\/p>\n<p>DeSantis&#8217;s campaign referred to his \u200drecent comments\u200d defending the curriculum, where\u2062 he emphasized\u200c the importance of \u2063fighting against false\u200d narratives and speaking the truth.<\/p>\n<p>It remains to be seen how this controversy will unfold and whether DeSantis will address the concerns\u2064 raised\u200d by these\u2064 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/desantis-appears-to-be-a-popular-lead-for-2024-straw-poll-shows\/\" title=\"DeSantis Appears To Be A Popular Lead For 2024, Straw Poll Shows\">potential presidential candidates<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2024 presidential candidates criticize Florida&#8217;s slavery teaching standards, while Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL) refrains from denouncing the controversial curriculum. Will Hurd, Nikki Haley, and Vivek Ramaswamy condemn the inclusion of slavery&#8217;s &#8220;personal benefits.&#8221; DeSantis defends the standards.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1986242,"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-1986241","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\/1986241","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=1986241"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1986241\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1986242"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1986241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1986241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1986241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}