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🗓️ 3 August 2023
⏱️ 29 minutes
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0:00.0 | I'm Jonathan K. Parton. Welcome to K-Part. Florida is at the eye of the storm in the |
0:05.8 | ongoing discussions about how black history should be taught in public schools. Lessons |
0:11.4 | deemed too woke are under fire while critics are calling the new teaching standards a step |
0:16.7 | backward. The latest example, the new curriculum standard that calls for discussing the benefits |
0:22.6 | of slavery. In this conversation, first recorded for Washington Post Live on August 2, University |
0:29.6 | of Florida, history professor Paul Ortiz talks about how we got to this point and explains why |
0:35.7 | efforts to shield students, particularly white students from history, is ridiculous. |
0:41.4 | If you study something like slavery or the Holocaust or the genocide of Native Americans, |
0:49.7 | you should feel bad. I feel bad. There should be a reckoning. There should be a realization that |
0:56.0 | this was a grotesque injustice talking about slavery, talking about the Holocaust. |
1:02.1 | And will students sometimes feel bad? Yes, because they should. |
1:10.4 | The new guidelines in Florida to teach black history are 216 pages of academic standards created |
1:18.3 | by a group of 13, quote unquote, education stakeholders. What prompted all this? |
1:26.6 | Jonathan, these new standards are designed to align with Florida's |
1:33.3 | Stop-Oak Act, HB7. The irony here, of course, is that as many of your viewers undoubtedly know, |
1:42.9 | we have been able to get a federal court injunction against the Stop-Oak Act, HB7. |
1:49.2 | And so, Governor DeSantis, who has consistently targeted African-American history, |
1:57.6 | ironically, there's an injunction against the very law that he's trying to get African-American |
2:02.8 | history standard. And please note, again, it's African-American history that he's picking on. |
2:07.9 | And so, that's kind of the backdrop behind the creation of these history standards. |
2:16.6 | You know, I'm going to skip way ahead because I was going to get to the Stop-Oak Act and the |
2:21.8 | injunction behind it so far. Its application in colleges has been halted by the 11th Circuit |
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