Ron DeSantis Invites Nation’s First Black VP to Florida for Roundtable Discussion on the Upsides of Being Enslaved

Remember when Ron DeSantis’s board of education announced last month that new state standards would require schools to teach students that there were some benefits to being enslaved? And the Florida governor was blasted for it, not only by the “The Left,” but by fellow Republicans too? Because the idea of forcing teachers to tell kids that there were some silver linings to being human property is, to quote former GOP congressman Will Hurd, “insane”?

You might have thought that, given the bipartisan blowback, DeSantis would not be eager to keep this particular story in the news. But surprise! He apparently does, and his plan to keep people talking about it was to troll-invite Kamala Harris, the nation’s first Black vice president, to Florida for an “honest dialogue” about why it isn’t nuts to require school curricula to include a section on slavery not being all bad.

Incidentally, it should be noted that the individual DeSantis proposed Harris chat with, William Allen, once gave a talk at a conference entitled “Blacks? Animals? Homosexuals? What is a Minority?” He was also charged with kidnapping a 14-year-old from an indigenous reservation in Arizona; he later apologized but insisted he would “not assume responsibility” for what had happened.

Anyway, Harris will not be traveling to Florida to speak with him or anyone else about the silver linings of slavery.

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