On June 19, the Florida Department of Education (FOE) updated its guidelines for its Black history curriculum in Florida’s public schools. This follows Gov. Ron DeSantis‘ signing of the “Stop WOKE Act” last year. The new standards say discussions about race must be taught in an “objective manner” and should describe the skills enslaved people learned as beneficial to them later in life. Critics, including Vice President Kamala Harris, say that the new curriculum ignores Florida’s role in slavery and the oppression of African Americans.
Straight Arrow News contributor Star Parker argues that opponents of the Stop WOKE Act fail to recognize the resilience of humanity in dealing with the challenges they face.
In the news again, the political Left attempting to demagogue on race matters in America, this time on curriculum changes in Florida schools. Of course there is only one way to understand slavery in America and around the world: that the practice is evil – pure and simple.
No one said it more clearly than our first president of the Republican Party, Abraham Lincoln. In his speech in Peoria, Illinois, 1854, Lincoln challenged Democrat Sen. Stephen Douglas, who was advancing the Kansas Nebraska Act, proposing to deal with slavery in new states entering the union by voting.
Lincoln stated that Douglas was arguing that when God made man and placed good and evil before him, it was allowing for mankind to choose for himself on anything, on everything.
Lincoln noted that “the facts of this proposition are not true. God did not place good and evil before man telling him to make his choice,” Lincoln said. “On the contrary, he did tell him there was one tree of the fruit of which he should not eat, upon pain of certain death. I should scarcely wish so strong a prohibition against slavery in Nebraska.”
You know, this WOKE Act was signed into law by Gov. Ron DeSantis in Florida to protect the public school curriculum from the distortions of the Left, about our nation, our culture, our history. This is all perpetuated by the “woke crowd.”
And now the Left is distorting the reality of the curriculum that many scholars have developed, including prominent Black scholars.
