The Department of Education is in the news this week. They issued new guidelines when it comes to teaching things like slavery. They are teaching its innumerable horrors. That's clear. But They are also requiring teachers to instruct that, quote, slaves develop skills, which in some instances could be used for personal benefit. As you know, the vice President made an emergency trip down here to Florida to say you were whitewashing history, that these are lies. (18:30–18:38)
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Asserts that the new guidelines require teaching that slaves developed skills that could be used for personal benefit.
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