fraternity is announcer moving the 2025 annual convention out of florida. the fraternity established for african american men s as governor ron desantis has, quote, harmful, racist, and sensitive policies against the black community. he said, they made the decision following the states new social studies curriculum approved just last week. part that s come under fire. middle school students will be taught about various kinds of work and enslaved black people were forced to perform. some examples listed agriculture, carpent, and transportation, and then it says this. quote, instruction includes how slaves developed skills, which, in some instances, could be applied for their personal benefit. in a moment, filmmaker spike lees reaction to those new guidelines. but first, what republican presidential candidate and florida governor ron desantis said about all of this last night. these standards really were born out of that and these are very thorough standards done by african american hi
america. we were accused of not wanting to teach african american history but it required it be done. these standards were borne out of that and these are thorough standards done by african american history scholars. there is no agenda here. it is just the truth and they talk in detail, including the injustice of slavery, but she is trying to perpetuate a hoax. they are using it to attack me. they are always attacking florida, but they are impugning the work of people like dr. dr. alan. jesse: dr. alan was a wonderful guest and florida should be grateful for having him write the standards. let s pivot to republican politics.
they were children stripped away from mothers and families and, you, know if you really delve deep into it, it is extremely disturbing and the vestiges of that are still around of society. i want to quickly ask you. we heard from desantis, was running for president. he is a governor of florida and he says that these are thorough standards done by african american history scholars. there s no agenda here. deeply, that yes or no? no, absolutely not. i mean, i think this is all part of the anti so-called woke agenda that is really an agenda that tries to distort and figure black history. what governor desantis doesn t understand is that black history is really american history. so, certainly within the horrors of slavery black peoplel odds. they love their family members. they unabated in terms of food and cooking and music. they were vice cultivators.
jonathan ike s new book on king. we have a distorted history of what slavery was. we still think about slavery as mint juleps and tea and nice polite white folks. and somehow this was some kind of rough education for black people. that s what senator john calhoun from south carolina called it. it was not that. it was the super exploitation of black women and children and men and boys and girls and babies to enrich the entire united states, from sea to shining sea. it s new york and wall street. there were rapes, there were children stripped away from mothers and families. and, you know, if you really delve deep into it, it is the extremely disturbing and the vestiges of that are still around in society. i do want the just quickly ask you, we heard from desantis, who is running for president. he is the governor of florida at the time. and he says these are thorough standards done by african american history scholars.