Two Jacksonville state lawmakers are in a heated fight over the state’s new African American history standards and Thursday, it culminated in one issuing a cease and desist letter to the other.
“I thank God for slavery. I thank God for the crack house. If it weren’t for the crack house, God wouldn’t have never been able to use me how he can use me now and if it wasn’t for slavery, I might be somewhere in Africa worshiping a tree,” Daniels said during the sermon delivered at Solid Rock Church in Monroe, Ohio in 2008.“There was a whole message, about thank God for the crack house.
“Your defamatory statements involved statements known to be false and made with actual malice regarding her activities on the African American Studies Taskforce,” Daniels’ attorney Robert Slama wrote in the letter., the standards were developed by a separate work group.Daniels stated she doesn’t agree with parts of those standards, including a portion which highlights skills slaves learned which, “could be applied for their personal benefit.
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