Black Republican Shafts Ron DeSantis On That Bit About Slavery Benefitting Blacks...

 

By EDUARDO PAZ-MARTINEZ

McALLEN, Texas | Well, it took a Black dude to finally set the fool straight. Republican Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis cavalierly said last week that Blacks benefitted from slavery. Uh, no.

Big No.

South Carolina U.S. Sen. Tim Scott, shown in photo above and also a Republican and, like DeSantis, also a candidate for president in the 2024 election, succinctly corrected DeSantis.

This from politico.com: [ Republican presidential candidate Tim Scott on Thursday criticized competitor Ron DeSantis (shown in colored photo below) on his support for Florida education standards requiring students to be instructed on the “benefits” of slavery.

Asked by a reporter about the curriculum requirement at a campaign stop outside Des Moines, the South Carolina senator said he hoped that "every person in our country, and certainly running for president, would appreciate that" slavery had no benefits to enslaved people.

"There is no silver lining in slavery," Scott said. "Slavery was really about separating families, about mutilating humans and even raping their wives. It was just devastating."

The Florida standards backed by DeSantis require instructors to teach middle schoolers that ". . .slaves developed skills which, in some instances, could be applied for their personal benefit." The requirement has come under fire from a spectrum of political voices from Vice President Kamala Harris to Republican Florida Rep. Byron Donalds.

Asked about Donalds’ criticism of the curriculum at a campaign stop in Iowa earlier Thursday, DeSantis questioned the representative’s loyalty to the Florida Republican party. ]

So much for blatant racism.

DeSantis has dropped depreciatively in the voter polls and now is neck-and-neck with former unknown Vivek Ramaswamy, as both trail multi-indicted Donald Trump at this point in the party nomination race.

Still, struggling DeSantis added this to the convo at hand: "So at the end of the day you’ve got to choose," he said. "Are you going to side with Kamala Harris and liberal media outlets or are you going to side with the state of Florida?"

Be a dumbass Republican and blame the "liberal media." It's such a lame counterpunch.

The media is not your challenger; it's the voters.

And the voters are saying "Hell, no!" to loser Ron DeSantis.

Quite smartly, we might add here...

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