“The View” visitor host and former “The Bachelorette” star Rachel Lindsay ripped aside Gov. Ron DeSantis, R-Fla., for rejecting a possible AP African Research course being taught in Florida excessive faculties.
Lindsay accused DeSantis of committing “cultural erasure” of African individuals, on the identical scale of erasure that the colonial powers dedicated through the time of slavery in America.
Lindsay made her impassioned criticism of the governor through the Friday episode of ABC’s “The View.”
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Throughout Friday’s episode of “The View,” visitor host Rachel Lindsay accused Gov. Ron DeSantis, R-Fla., of committing “cultural erasure” towards Black individuals.
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Co-host Pleasure Behar launched the dialog subject, saying, “Governor DeSantis simply put the kibosh on a sophisticated placement African American research course in Florida public excessive faculties. The course syllabus isn’t publicly accessible but however The School Board that created it known as it a historical past course that additionally examines the important contributions, experiences of African People in literature, the humanities, political science, geography, and science.”
Behar added that the Florida governor discovered that the course “violates state regulation and ‘lacks academic worth.’” “The View” viewers gasped, seemingly outraged over DeSantis’ blunt evaluation of it.
“I want to know, what’s he afraid of? That some essential race concept’s gonna sneak in whereas some youngsters are studying ‘Native Son’ or James Baldwin?” Behar requested.
Regardless of studies corroborating Behar’s claims that The School Board’s proposed AP class has but to publicly unveil a syllabus, and that the DeSantis administration has discovered that the category has violated state regulation, Lindsay assumed the worst of the state authorities’s motives.
She accused DeSantis of attempting to erase African historical past for the sake of it, quite than shield Florida’s kids from an ideologically pushed curriculum.
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After co-host Ana Navarro claimed DeSantis made the transfer for politics, calling it an “obvious and clear attraction to the Republican base,” Lindsay took it one step additional.
“It’s not a political stunt. I can’t name it that. It’s racism. We now have to name it precisely what it’s,” she stated, prompting applause.
“That is cultural erasure. We’ve seen it occur earlier than. When Black individuals have been introduced from Africa over right here, pressured to be right here, they erased our tradition from us. They took our faith away. They took our names away. They took our heritage. The whole lot that associated us to Africa, they took it away and changed it with western tradition. That’s what you’re doing proper now in schooling.”
The visitor host accused the DeSantis administration of a double customary for letting different ethnic programs into the state’s lecture rooms, however not the African course.
“If you have a look at the AP courses which might be taught proper now within the state of Florida, you may have Chinese language language and tradition, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Latin and Spanish, however you may’t have African American research? I’ve an enormous drawback with that!” she stated.
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Left unmentioned was that the Florida Division of Training’s (FDOE) rejection letter to The School Board added that “sooner or later, ought to School Board be prepared to come back again to the desk with lawful, traditionally correct content material, FDOE will all the time be prepared to reopen the dialogue.”
“If each different tradition may be taught apart from Black tradition, that’s racism,” Lindsay stated.
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