By now, you’ve got seemingly heard the disparaging remarks from Governor Ron DeSantis about slavery being a “good factor.” Sure, he actually mentioned that. In a current go to to Florida this week, Vice President Kamala Harris took time to instantly name out the fallacy of DeSantis’s assertion.
These extremist beliefs are the latest from the governor in his push to eradicate variety, fairness and inclusion initiatives from the state and “rework” the tutorial curriculum inside the Florida faculty system.
In her message in the course of the African Methodist Episcopal (AME) Church’s Girls’s Missionary Society Quadrennial Conference, Harris affirmed the detrimental nature of slavery on Black Individuals and rejected the necessity to debate the notion that this heinous time in American historical past was something aside from horrific.
“I’ll let you know there isn’t a roundtable, no lecture, no invitation we’ll settle for to debate an indisputable fact: there have been no redeeming qualities of slavery,” mentioned Vice President Kamala Harris. “As I mentioned final week once I was once more right here in Florida: we is not going to cease calling out and preventing again in opposition to extremist so-called leaders who attempt to stop our youngsters from studying our true and full historical past.”
Vice President Harris emphasised the Biden-Harris Administration’s dedication to fairness and guaranteeing that the nation continues to be an inclusive area for all. She shared the initiatives that they’ve launched because of this hateful rhetoric.
Try the total speech beneath:
