“We’re fighting back against attempts to gaslight us, cover up our history, and rewrite the horrors of slavery,” Vic President Kamala Harris said in a Tweet.
Vice President Kamala Harris will be in Jacksonville today at the historic Ritz Theatre and Museum to speak against Florida's recent education changes.– Vice President Kamala Harris will speak in Jacksonville on Friday in response to controversial changes approved this week by the Florida Board of Education.Harris will speak around 3:45 p.m. at the Ritz Theatre and Museum in the LaVilla area, which is rich in Jacksonville’s Black history.
The Ritz stores and presents material, art and history of African American life in this part of Northeast Florida. The standards approved Wednesday by the Florida BOE would teach middle school students that some Black people benefited from slavery as the lesson plan says slavery provided them with useful skills.
“We’re fighting back against attempts to gaslight us, cover up our history, and rewrite the horrors of slavery,” Harris said in a Tweet. “POTUS and I will always stand up or fundamental freedoms, including the freedom to learn and teach America’s full history.”
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