Harris Rejects DeSantis Invitation to Discuss Black History
- White House has been vocally opposed to state curriculum
- GOP presidential candidates have also criticized teachings
Kamala Harris
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Vice President Kamala Harris publicly rejected Republican presidential challenger Ron DeSantis’s invitation to visit Florida to discuss the state’s new Black history curriculum and denounced the suggestion that enslaved people learned valuable skills.
“I’m here in Florida, and I will tell you there is no roundtable, no lecture, no invitation we will accept to debate an undeniable fact: There were no redeeming qualities of slavery,” Harris said Tuesday at a gathering of the Women’s Missionary Society of the African Methodist Episcopal Church in Orlando.