Scott took aim at DeSantis — his competitor in the Republican presidential primary — over his recent remarks about Florida’s new standards for teaching Black history.
07/27/2023 10:14 PM EDTRepublican presidential candidate Tim Scott on Thursday criticized competitor Ron DeSantis on his support for Florida education standards requiring students to be instructed on the “benefits” of slavery.
Asked by a POLITICO 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 Gov. 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
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