A black professor who co-authored Florida’s educational curriculum accused Vice President Kamala Harris of lying about the history of slavery.
Dr. William Allen, a member of the Florida African American History Standards Workgroup, told Fox News’s Jesse Watters on Monday the newly approved curriculum that teaches students about slavery and black history “is devoted to telling the truth whereas Kamala Harris has retold a lie.”
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Harris spoke out last week against the Florida Board of Education’s decision to update school standards for teaching the subject, which now includes instruction on how slaves benefited from skills that they learned. She condemned this section of the curriculum as an “insult” and an “attempt to gaslight us.”
Allen called Harris’s claims about this instruction an “absolute falsehood.” He also said her comments were “erasing [the] stories” of black Americans who worked hard to “seek opportunity” despite their enslavement.
“The accomplishments of black people post-slavery were the accomplishments not just of black Americans but the accomplishments of American principles,” Allen said. “And that is the truth that people seek to deny by erasing the stories of people who lived through the histories.”
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During her visit to Florida last Friday, the vice president did not specifically name Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL) as responsible for the curriculum change, though she did deride the state’s leaders as “extremists.”
Allen also spoke to ABC News following Harris’s slavery comments over the weekend, according to Fox News; however, that interview never aired.
