Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’ administration has given its explanation for why the state’s education department banned schools from teaching an Advanced Placement African American studies course, and the rationale is just as oppressive as imagined.
Florida state Sen. Shevrin Jones, a Democrat, shared a sheet the DeSantis administration released laying out its objections to the AP course, which was proposed as one of several electives for high school students in Florida. The release cites the following topics related to the administration’s concerns: the antiracist Movement for Black Lives, Black authors Kimberlé Crenshaw and Angela Davis, Black queer studies, intersectionality and reparations.
“We proudly require the teaching of African American history,” Florida Education Secretary Manny Diaz Jr. tweeted on Friday. “We do not accept woke indoctrination masquerading as education.”
The state has officially banned the AP African American history course under the so-called Stop…
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