DeSantis vindicated on critical race theory in schools

Judging by the headlines, you’d have thought Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL) had banned any mention of black history in Florida public schools. But of course, the headlines are not to be trusted when left-biased journalists get going.

All of these claims were completely false. Florida’s academic standards specifically require teaching “the history of African peoples,” including “the passage to America,” “the enslavement experience,” and “how the individual freedoms of persons have been infringed by slavery, racial oppression, racial segregation, and racial discrimination.”

What Florida law proscribes additionally, however, is any curriculum designed to “indoctrinate” students into thinking any person “is inherently racist, sexist, or oppressive, whether consciously or unconsciously, solely by virtue of his or her race or sex” or that any person “by virtue of his or her race or sex” bears responsibility for actions committed in the past by other members of the same race or sex.”