DeSantis is right to drop the Woke AP African American Studies curriculum.

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis is being accused of a long parade of horrors, now joined by a new count who allegedly opposes the teaching of African American history.

Florida rejected the Advanced Placement College Board’s African American studies pilot course, a decision that was seen in progressive circles as the academic equivalent of George Wallace standing at the door of a school building.

White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre called the state’s decision “incomprehensible.” DeSantis wants to “block”, in Jean-Pierre’s words, “the study of black Americans.” She ominously noted that “such actions are not new, especially in terms of what we are unfortunately seeing in Florida.”

Florida Senator Shevrin Jones, a Democrat, said the reversal is tantamount to “whitewashing” American history. Jones states that “we are back to square one, seeing that we again need to protect ourselves in order to be legal in America.”

Never mind that there is an obvious difference between objecting to the ideological content of a pilot course not yet adopted and erasing the history of African Americans as such.

It’s a typical game of pretending that the only way to teach African American history is through the biased political lens favored by the left.

Florida Rejects Advanced Placement College Board African American Studies Pilot Course.USA TODAY NETWORK/Sipa USA

When red states oppose critical race theory, its proponents pretend that students will never learn about the transatlantic slave trade, the 13th Amendment, or Frederick Douglass.

This is ridiculous. No reasonable person objects to the full and truthful teaching of American history. (In Florida, the controversial Stop the Awakening Act itself provides that instructors must teach African history, the Middle Passage, the experience of slavery, the abolition of slavery, and the effects of segregation and other forms of discrimination.)

The problem is that the curriculum is being used as an ideological weapon to enforce a distorted, one-sided worldview, and here in Florida the College Board is absolutely right.

The College Board has not made public the experimental curriculum, but, as the conservative writer notes, Stanley Kurtz and a publication called The Florida Standard have documented, it really goes crazy when it comes to contemporary issues. curriculum presents Black Lives Matter and the reparations movement favorably and without objection recommend the writings of a group of left-wing writers, from Robin D.G. Kelly to Michelle Alexander.

Bias aside, when the state of American historical and civic knowledge is on the verge of collapse, who thinks high school students need to brush up on “black queer studies”? The syllabus explains that the theme “explores the concept of queer color critique based on black feminism and intersectionality as a lens for black studies that shifts studies of sexuality towards racial analysis.”

Curriculum presents Black Lives Matter and the reparations movement favorably.Getty Images/iStockphoto

Of course, if someone wants to marinate in this shit, he or she can wait to do so at a college that specializes in wasting students’ time and spreading ridiculous hypocrisy and lies.

This is a more fundamental point. Such “curriculum” programs—African American, women’s, gay, etc.—are intellectually corrupt and inherently biased at the university level, and should be kept out of the realm of K-12 public education.

It is no wonder that the AP curriculum, developed with the participation of practitioners of African American studies at the university level, will contain all the same perversions and twisted ideas.

Florida should be commended for saying “No” and other states that care about quality education should do the same.

The history of African Americans is the history of America. It should be taught – and it was – as an integral part of American history. Only when we are sure that all students know this history should we be ready for further specialization, and never if it is the poisoned fruit of Identitarian courses at universities that take it for granted that their students should be encouraged to thoughtlessly adopt progressive views. and beliefs.

This fight is not about blocking history or erasing the sins of the country, but about drawing the line between hypocritical political advocacy and thorough, truthful teaching about the American past.

Twitter: @RichLowry

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