Fox News Dr. William B. Allen chided critics who are too quick to malign the curriculum, saying, ‘It’s only those who don’t take the time to read it who will misstate it’
Academic calls out Kamala Harris for mischaracterizing Florida education
Sunday’s ABC World News Tonight showed a tiny portion of the interview where academic William Allen defended Florida’s Black history curriculum, but the larger interview shows him calling out Vice President Kamala Harris.
An academic who helped craft Florida’s African American history curriculum called out Vice President Kamala Harris for mischaracterizing the course material in interview footage ABC News left on the cutting room floor.
The Florida Board of Education recently approved a new curriculum for African American history, with a section on how “slaves developed skills which, in some instances, could be applied for their personal benefit” drawing heavy criticism.
Harris condemned this line in a recent speech, declaring that “they decided middle school students will be taught that enslaved people benefited from slavery. They insult us in an attempt to gaslight us, and we will not stand for it.”
The former chairman of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights and Florida’s African American History Standards Workgroup member, Dr. William Allen, told ABC News Harris completely mischaracterized the curriculum with a “categorically false” assessment.
Dr. William Allen, former chairman of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights and Florida’s African American History Standards Workgroup member called out the vice president, saying she clearly did not read the course material. (ABC)
However, the network didn’t air those comments on Saturday’s “ABC World News Tonight.” Only a small segment from Allen’s interview aired, when he defended the controversial line, “It is the case that Africans proved resourceful, resilient and adaptive, and were able to develop skills and aptitudes which served to their benefit both while enslaved and after enslavement.”
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’ press secretary Jeremy Redfern shared several more minutes from Allen’s interview with ABC News in a series of tweets, highlighting Allen’s response to Harris.
“Yesterday, @abcnews aired a very small section of their interview with a member of Florida’s African American History Standards Workgroup, Dr. William B. Allen. Here’s more of the interview, where Dr. Allen debunks @VP’s narrative and calls her criticism ‘categorically false,'” he said.
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