The College Board’s AP African American Farce & DeSantis’ Decisiveness – Top 3 Takeaways – January 24th, 2023
- Doing the right thing isn't always easy and what is easy isn't always right. It’s a classic quote with simple wisdom attached to it. But the thing is, when Ron DeSantis is the governor, doing the right thing is actually proving to be easy and he's increasingly making doing the wrong thing the harder way to go. On Monday, while making a stop at a Jacksonville area school for the start of National School Choice week, DeSantis successfully challenged political correctness while defending his administration's decision to ban the College Board’s pilot AP African American studies course in Florida’s schools. Quoting DeSantis: This course, on Black History, what’s one of the lessons about? Queer theory! Now who would say that an important part of Black History is queer theory? That is somebody pushing an agenda on our kids. And guess what? DeSantis is right. Topic 4.19 in the AP African American Studies Course is entitled: Black Queer Studies. And what does the curriculum include? Building forms of queerness that reject the given realities of the government and the market. Yes, that’s a quote. Building forms of queerness that reject the given realities of the government and the market. I don’t know about you, but I’m thinking we’re probably not needing to spend our tax dollars to teach Florida’s students about how to build forms of queerness regardless of race. But that's far from the only questionable section of the course that seems to deviate considerably from the concept of education, in lieu of indoctrination. There’s a section of the course entitled: Intersectionality and Activism. IE...
- Critical Race Theory – which incidentally is already banned under Florida law. There’s the section on Movements for Black Lives. IE the promotion of the discredited Black Lives Matter organization. There’s a section in the course called Black Feminist Literary Thought with required reading that states our society is a “White Supremacist capitalist patriarchy”. Another section of the AP African American Studies Course is entitled The Reparations Movement which provides advocacy for reparations and last but not least, the Black Struggle in the 21st Century. Now, a little waltz through those highlights should show a) how whacked out the College Board has become and b) what the purpose of this newly crafted course really happens to be. So, while some in local and state media and a bunch in national and international news media once again are attempting to paint Governor DeSantis as an authoritarian racist for not having that course paid for by you and me and taught to our children in exchange for college credit, an undeterred DeSantis leads on. Speaking of which he said something else at the school stop yesterday which is perhaps the most instructive point of all. When speaking to our country’s history... I view it as American history. I don’t view it as separate history. Bingo, and this is especially instructive with February around the corner. Black history is American history. And what’s more, as I’m inclined to say, if the premise of anything is false, anything built on it is too. Well, the very term African American is a farce in the way with which it’s advanced in this AP course and far too often in society. For starters...
- 21% of Africans, aren’t Black. Sorry to interject facts into a politically correct subject and all, however, to attempt to interchangeably use the term African American for Black is and always has been inherently wrong. What’s more, what do you think the percentage of Black Americans are who are from Africa? It’s 4.4%. So walk with me on this one for a moment. Here we have an AP class that’s named based on a false premise which only would accurately apply to 4.4% of the Black population if it weren’t and along the way teaches about building forms of queerness within our white supremacist capitalist patriarchy. It’s all so absurd you wouldn’t be able to make this stuff up. And yet the College Board did and now you’re said to be a racist bad man if you don’t pay for this and offer to our children. Now, this is being pushed clear across the country by the College Board, not just here in Florida. Who else have you heard standing up to this? Will the other 49 states implement this course? Who else has been willing to do the right thing? The right thing which on the surface might not seem easy, but that Governor DeSantis with a backbone of steel and facts on his side has made look easy.