children feel bad, which is illegal in florida, nor has he banished february itself entirely from our calendar. at least not yet. joining me now, one of the three high school students who plans to sue florida over its rejection of the course. and thank you both for being here. i want to name all three students who would be in this lawsuit. elijah edwards who is here. elijah, you re a sophomore. talk about this class. and what and why you wanted to take it. or why you would want to take it. i want to take the class because i mean, well, first of all, i m black. that was the first reason that i wanted to take the class. and another reason was recently, i ve been more open to learning
about my history and where i came from. and the trial and tribulation of those that came before me. so i want to take the class so i can have a more in depth teaching, about the fact. and let me ask you this question, elijah, because you know, florida law says that they are required to teach african-american studies. they re required to teach something about the history of black people in this country. do you feel that you ve gotten a thorough education in black history so far in school? no. i really feel like i haven t and i feel like what i have learned has been cut short or whitewashed in a sort of way to where they don t give you the full extent of what happened. they only give you part of it. they re trying to like, they re
for appointing a special counsel to investigate president biden s classified documents, we learned that pence also had classified material in his home in indiana. in a situation very similar to biden, pence s lawyers conducted a search, found a small number of documents and quickly turned them over to the doj. which gave republican lawmakers and conservative media who were having the time of their lives aheadache. trying to justify their outrage over one and not the other. in the case of mike pence, he came forward and proactively reached out and is following the process. in the case of joe biden, he has had classified documents going back to his time in the senate where he started serving before i was born. so this is a long standing national security threat. mike pence as you noted, he is a good friend, a good man. he s explained where these came from. that is very different from what joe biden has done. joe biden has given zero
the backlash that s coming out. you ve showed your hand. you ve showed us who you are. there s 22 million people in the state of florida. 22% of those people are black. so our black children like elijah have the potential to continue to learn in a system where they don t see themselves represented in this very system or represented in this state. i have to give elijah the last word on this because i do wonder how it felt for you to hear those words that african-american studies has no value. i wonder how that felt to you as a young black man. a black kid. honestly, i felt upset. i felt a little angry because i was like, you telling me that people that literally built this country up from the bottom from when we first got here, you mean to tell me that the history of those people aren t, isn t important?