You can’t ask for better proof of VP Kamala Harris’ cheap, ugly hypocrisy.
Remember her recent frontal assault on Fla. Gov. Ron DeSantis, when she falsely claimed his state’s black-studies curriculum would “replace history with lies” and teach middle school kids that black people “benefited from slavery”?
Guess what: That “lie,” that awful “propaganda” — to use Harris’ words — is actually part of standard AP history pedagogy, which she and fellow Democrats back.
An AP history unit says slaves learned trades and skills and used them “to provide for themselves and others.”
Florida’s curriculum contains virtually the same line: “Instruction includes how slaves developed skills which, in some instances, could be applied for their personal benefit.”
To the veep, the former is fine but the latter outrageous.
It would be hilarious if the underlying reality weren’t so grim.
Recall that earlier this year, DeSantis, under his state’s Stop WOKE Act, moved to break away from new AP standards on black history that included poisonous teachings on critical race theory.
Progressives were head-over-heels about the standards and blasted him for the move.
Including Harris herself.
“Anyone who bans teaching American history has no right to shape America’s future,” she said.
Ha!
Question is: Why slam DeSantis for something those standards themselves include?
As one of the scholars who worked on the new Florida curriculum, former US Civil Rights Commission chair Dr. Willam B. Allen, put it, Harris & Co. want “to prosecute a culture war,” and their attacks on Florida are “a kind of ideological posturing.”
Indeed they are.
Harris put on a big theatrical show over that one (accurate) line in Florida’s curriculum, in an ugly bid to weaken him in the Republican presidential primary.
Yet now that her fraud has been exposed, don’t expect her to stop.
No, she and her fellow Dems will continue to look to ride the racial-grievance train back into the White House, no matter how hypocritical it is.
This story originally appeared on NYPost
