Gov. Ron DeSantis is blocking an AP course on black history in Florida’s public high schools, and he is being called a racist Klansman for doing so, but buried deep in the left-wing denial of any wrongdoing is plenty of evidence of Marxist indoctrination under the guise of education.
After the Florida Dept. of Education announced last week it was rejecting the AP African-American Studies course because of left-wing course topics, the accusations of bigotry and racism poured in. At the White House, DeSantis was accused of blocking the “study of black Americans.” Randi Weingarten, the teachers’ union boss, called it “shameful” because AP courses are a “pathway” to building “critical thinking skills” for young people.
Dean Obeidallah, a far-left journalist and Sirius talk show host, said DeSantis is positioning himself to be the GOP’s “next grand wizard.”
“Why is it,” D.L. Hughley, the well-known black comedian, asked in a tweet, “that the only history that seems to bother DeSantis is black history?”
On the other side of the country, in California, Gov. Gavin Newsom (pictured at left) said DeSantis “has decided black history is irrelevant.”
Newsom tied this latest news from DeSantis to the “don’t say gay” bill the Republican governor signed into law last year amidst media hysteria and fuming Democrats. But tying the AP course to the “don’t say gay” bill should be a red flag, since Democrats and their dishonest media allies were outed for parroting that slogan but failing to be honest about what the Parents Rights in Education Act actually did.
Last week, when reporters pressed DeSantis about rejecting the AP course, he said Florida law requires teaching black history but the AP course went far beyond those lessons.
“What’s one of the lessons about? Queer theory,” he pushed back, citing just one example. “Now who would say an important part of black history is queer theory? That is somebody pushing an agenda on our kids.”
‘Nothing particularly ideological’ in AP course
John Stemberger, who leads the Florida Family Policy Council, tells AFN the left-wing media is using its same playbook for the AP history course.
“The real story,” Stemberger points out, “is that this particular AP course is replete with Critical Race Theory elements all throughout it.”
But even that accusation, if true, gets lost in debate because the communist Left has gotten caught playing fast and loose with defining Critical Race Theory itself. By now much of the public has witnessed Democrats and school leaders deny CRT is being taught to public school children, which is technically true in many cases, but the tenets of the theory – that whites are inherently racist and keep blacks from gaining power – are being taught to innocent children even in elementary schools.
The self-hating indoctrination works on white teachers, too, which is why AFN reported in December a white English teacher in California said basic rules for grammar are rooted in racism and Western colonialism. So the teacher, Marta Shaffer, said she focuses on “white supremacy and misogony and colonization” in her classroom.
In the case of the AP course on black history, an NPR story quotes an African American Studies professor who helped create the curriculum. “There is nothing particularly ideological about the course,” insisted Christopher Tinson, “except that we value the experiences of African people in the United States.”
What does that even mean? In the case of Critical Race Theory, it mirrors the same pattern of denial in which the defenders of CRT – once they have been outed by parents or a teacher – claim their critics are dishonest racists who don’t want students to learn about America’s racist past, such as the U.S. Civil War, Jim Crow laws and the Civil Rights movement.
NRO writer quotes teachers’ guide
In an eye-opening story at National Review Online, writer Stanley Kurtz points out the Left has been caught lying again because the evidence of Marxist indoctrination is sprinkled throughout the course material. He reminds the reader he already outed the AP African-American Studies course for its socialist activism in an NRO story published in September, but more recently he obtained a teachers’ guide, too.
Citing the newest AP materials he read over, Kurtz says the curriculum’s “most serious problems” are in the final quarter of the class, under a section called “Movements and Debates,” in which radical far-left movements are romanticized. Any so-called debate never really happens, Kurtz says, on topics such as racial reparations, incarceration of blacks, and activism in medicine, technology, and the environment.
“By ‘debates,’ the guide simply means practical disagreements about who exactly should pay for reparations, who exactly should benefit, and the precise mixture of monetary compensation and public apology to be demanded,” Kurtz writes.
A frequent theme throughout the course, Kurtz says, is advocating “revolutionary violence” against whites. The curriculums authors cite Malcolm X, the Black Panther Party, and modern-day black intellectuals and black writers who are open Socialists and Marxists, and whose books are recommended to students.
“DeSantis was right,” Kurtz concludes, “to block this course.”
Meanwhile, in non-woke Florida, Stemberger points out state law requires the teaching of African-American history in public schools.
“And it’s very specific about how it has to be accurate,” he tells AFN. “It has to be historical. It has to profile heroes of African-American history.”
It just won’t rely on a Marxist-based theory, he adds, that is itself “racist at its core.”
“If you fall on the side of indoctrination, we’re going to decline,” DeSantis told reporters. “If it’s education, then we will do it.”
‘Don’t Say Gay’ Lies “Democrats and their dishonest media allies were outed for parroting that slogan but failing to be honest about what the Parents Rights in Education Act actually did.”
The lies, cons, deceptions, hypocrisy and treachery of the treasonous, woke, socialist Democrat Party cult and their disciples know no bounds.
To fully advance the Lying, Treasonous, Demonic, Woke, Socialist Democrat Party’s destructive beliefs and agendas is to divide our citizens with hate and promote – racism, radical feminism, abortion-on-demand, the LGBTQ lifestyle, unfettered sexual identity, transgender, same sex marriage, child indoctrination into sexual confusion and perversions, the pagan Liberal left Democrats must do away with GOD, our Constitution, common sense, morality, Christian values and free religious exercise altogether.
Under the of Disguise of Democrats versions of “anti-discrimination.”
Give ’em 10 times the hell they dish out, Ron.
The past may be prologue, but studying the past when it comes to equality, should only be viewed with the disturbing lens of equal races or unequal parties getting the equal opportunity to embrace lies, deceptions, dishonest redistribution of wealth and human life force, and the embracing of the darkest sides of humanity led by the darkest Angels of their race. If all human races are equal then it should be noted they all have the equal capability to corrupt, destroy and fail. The greater the technology, the greater the capability for good or evil. To paint one race more innocent than another is then an exercise in allowing the worst parts of our history to repeat themselves, now at a technologically more empowered acceleration and an American educational system that just breeds stronger and smarter criminals, and greater opportunities to beguile. If evil prevails when good men do or say nothing, it appears that the Floridians have elected a good man who refuses to keep his mouth shut in the present of evil and social corruption do nothing. This is a good thing when good men of action follow the better Angels of their nature. Good these days but rare.
To the left they follow the mantra of “Racism of the past, can ONLY be eliminated with racism in the present!”
“DeSantis was accused of blocking the “study of black Americans.””,,,,,,knowing it was not “the study” but the “The Program” of how to become modern socially indoctrinated mind enslaved black people,,,, not informed “Black American” men and women of integrity, via the disguised indoctrination this course was created to enslave. There is a difference between “Slave” and “Black” and many by their choices and their action prove that Slavery people do exist, even to this day. The skin color and geographic locations of their masters have changed, but the name of the Democrat party that enslaves black minds today to failing woke dependency, upon the dictates of the party few, remains the same reflection of what Democrats did to black bodies back when the Republican party shed buckets of blood to free blacks in a Civil War, only to later see black minds uncivilly enslaved in faux social entitlements and government programs that result in the shedding of mostly black blood today in Democrat run city streets. Their masters are multi-colored men of one political party of opportunity and self-interest, using the indoctrinating chains of woke equity to control the rise of black excellence, in denied equal opportunity of forced equal outcomes that result alone only in equal failure.
AND In many cases, its the AFRICAN NATIONS (as well as mid/far east) where slavery still exists….