unpleasant in anti-disney, is catching. this is sarah huckabee sanders, lying about canceling african american a.p. studies in her state. there s an accusation that the arkansas education department removed credit for controversial a.p. african american studies course. let me read to you what the naacp said and let you respond. they said the arkansas state conference of the naacp is appalled at the recent decision of arkansas department of education to make a hasteful decision at the final hour to do away with a.p. african american studies. is that really what happened there? absolutely not. we cannot perpetuate a lie to our students and push this propaganda leftist agenda teaching our kids to hate america and hate one another. dean, i didn t realize taking a.p. african american studies would make children hate america. did you? no. and to call african american
about everything, the good, the bad, the ugly, and i didn t go home and give myself lashings or hold myself unilaterally responsible for all of the woes in this country s history. so i learned. that s it. and to dean s point, this is just lazy, obvious excuses to basically prop up white grievance culture and just, you know, i guess prop up people whose views about race are so fragile that their only way to navigate through this is just to ban it outright. and the thing about it is, it s a presumption that if you teach white kids about the negative parts of history, they re going to identify with the bad guys. they re not going to identify with the abolitionists. it s a really interesting comment on their own children and really on themselves, because i don t think it s their kids that are going to identify with the bad guys in history. i think it s them. i think they identify with the slavers and not the abolitionists. they re afraid if their children are exposed to history, their
ron desantis, for just a moment, dean. some florida republicans say they really did expect him to implode. there s a saying in florida. there s two kinds of people in florida. people who think ron desantis can be president, and people who have met ron desantis. there is a famous or infamous story that gwen graham, who is a member of congress, fellow member of congress with him at one point, they were both running in 2018. she s running for a spot, he was running for governor. they ran into each other in an airport. he had his headphones in and pretended he didn t see her. she s talking to him, he s just not responding. and just acted like he didn t see her. she said it was one of the weirdest moments of her political career. that s a well known story about ron desantis. people are openly giving quotes about how weird and awkward he is. what do you expect him to do other than do the things on his list? like, is he going to be polling number two after the debate? can you imagine that?