instagram and then repeatedly messaged one of them. cnn national correspondent camila bernal is following the latest developments for us. camila, what more can you tell us? reporter: hey, fred. so, this is really important because authorities have not given us a connection between bryan kohberger and the victims. they have not said whether they knew each other or whether they had interactions. so people magazine is finding one of these connections saying that bryan kohberger followed the three girls on instagram and also saying that the three girls did not follow him back. the report also saying that not only did he follow them but he reached out to one of the girls in particular repeatedly. those messages went unanswered. it s unclear whether she saw the messages or whether she just chose not to answer them. but people magazine saying they were able to review that instagram account before it was deleted. they also went a little bit further saying that the girls worked
research. professor, so good to see you. good to see you. what s your reaction to this decision by the florida governor? so, i think when you put it in totality, what you see is florida and the florida governor thinks that african american studies, as you stated, significantly lacks educational value. and just so we know, a few of the courses that florida has not banned include a.p. european history, a.p. italian, languages and cultures, a.p. german languages and cultures. so does this mean that studying our students studying african americans is not educationally valuable but studying italians and germans is? he s also equating a.p. african american studies to
african american studies where students of all backgrounds were primarily reading white and white authors and primarily learning about white american culture. and they were thereby systematically ignorant about the cultures of other people in a multicultural, multiracial world. and so it was certainly tragic then, and it s tragic now, whenever we do that to our students. mm-hmm. when you put it like that, it is dismissive, it is overlooking the contributions of african americans, ignoring a population of people and the derivations of people and their impact on american history. why would the florida governor not see it that way? well, i think first and foremost, again, florida s governor has made it clear who and what he values and who and
critical race theory. what s wrong with that? african american studies as a discipline emerged in the late 1960s. critical race theory emerged in the late 1970s. so it demonstrates that florida officials don t understand history. and this is a pilot a.p. course, long time coming in so many schools which had no studies on african american history on the impact in which african americans made on american history. so what is right about having such a course? well, first and foremost, how can you understand american history if you don t understand the histories of all the people who have been here? how do you understand a culture, the different cultures of people if you don t study it? there was a time in this country s history before the
send the entire economy and global economy into a tailspin. so, besides the way in which this is being handled, meaning weaponizing the debt ceiling, they re playing with people s future and their security. so it s a dangerous game. it s being driven by the house republicans. and i think everyone is trying to scram to believe figure out what to do and how to avert this. i mean, there would be no winners. i mean, republicans, you know, who are digging in their heels, they would not win. i mean, clearly the white house wouldn t win. the economy, americans as a whole. no one wins. so given that, is it your feeling that there will be some compromise, there will be a way in which to avert what would be catastrophic come june? that s what should happen. and it s true that voters in red states and red districts will suffer services those in blue. this is not a partisan divide in terms of the effects.