Even GOP presidential candidate Will Hurd, who is black, weighed in saying slavery was not a jobs program. What's your response to all this? Well, Those standards were developed by African American history scholars, many of them Themselves were black. And the point about developing skills was those skills were developed in spite of slavery, not because of slavery. And that's what they're doing. (18:52–18:58)
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Asserts that the educational standards were developed by African American history scholars, many of whom are black.
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