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r3020
Senior Advisor

Dem agrees with DeSantis

Progressives don't want to teach history, they want to teach division and segregation.

 

Leon County Commissioner Bill Proctor, a Black Democrat, agreed with Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, R., last week that a proposed AP African American history course that was rejected by the state's Department of Education constitutes propaganda rather than a legitimate educational curriculum. DeSantis blocked the course on grounds that it violated the Sunshine State's Stop WOKE Act that was passed last year.

"I think it’s trash," Proctor said about the curriculum.

"There is grave concern about the tone and the tenor of leadership’s voice from the highest spaces in our state being hostile to teaching of African American history," he noted, according to Tallahassee Reports.

"Well frankly I’m against the College Board’s curriculum. I think it’s trash. It’s not African American history. It is ideology," Proctor continued.

"I’ve taught African American history, I’ve structured syllabuses for African American history. I am African American history. And talking about ‘queer’ and ‘feminism’ and all of that for the struggle for freedom and equality and justice has not been no tension with queerness and feminist thought at all," he argued.

https://www.foxnews.com/media/florida-democrat-agrees-desantis-ap-african-american-history-course-i-...

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Re: Dem agrees with DeSantis

I’d seen that earlier and the guy needs to be considered.

That said, he’s hardly in agreement with George Wall……err. The Governor. He says as much right there in the text you pasted.

FOX tho’ is very adept at understanding that their base viewers and readers will miss what you did and misconstrue and disseminate.

What a Country. 

rsbs
Esteemed Advisor

Re: Dem agrees with DeSantis

I remember way back when, in high school, we had what would be called a "woke" English teacher, a product of liberal Mankato State University. He introduced us all to the queer Black writers and tried to make their writings, which I would still view as trash, as something deserving of attention.

Back then, he got away with dating students, even married one of them, without repercussions. I think our school hired the bottom of the barrel for twenty years or so because we had a less than stellar head administrator who was not capable of discerning the wheat from the chaff. All of his English department hires were hitting on the students, and his hiring for high school principal actually got dismissed for inappropriate relations. But I digress.

Governor DeSantis is a good man, from all accounts, and is attempting and succeeding in making Florida into a state where people that respect themselves, and their values, want to live. It is not surprising that people, the good people, of all hues , creeds, and backgrounds support him.

The animus that the evil ones feel towards this man just shows how far the nation has sunk, and for the need for good men, and women, of his caliber to step forward and lead.

r3020
Senior Advisor

Re: Dem agrees with DeSantis

Oh so Bruce Santos is calling some one else liar. Here it is again.

 

This past week Leon County Commissioner Bill Proctor did not mince words when he addressed the recent controversy over the Florida Department of Education denied approval of an AP African American history course.

During the closing minutes of the January 24th Leon County Commission meeting, Proctor addressed the course and said “I think it’s trash.”

Proctor, who has taught government courses at Florida A&M, has oftentimes found himself at odds with Governor DeSantis, but not on this issue.

Proctor’s complete comments are provided below:

“There is grave concern about the tone and the tenor of leadership’s voice from the highest spaces in our state being hostile to teaching of African American history,” Proctor said. “Well frankly I’m against the College Board’s curriculum. I think it’s trash. It’s not African American history. It is ideology. I’ve taught African American history, I’ve structed syllabuses for African American history. I am African American history. And talking about ‘queer’ and ‘feminism’ and all of that for the struggle for freedom and equality and justice has not been no tension with queerness and feminist thought at all.”

 

https://tallahasseereports.com/2023/01/28/leon-county-commissioner-bill-proctor-on-ap-black-history-...