On Friday, in a section first flagged by NewsBusters, MSNBC’s Andrea Mitchell requested Vice President Harris why Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis doesn’t need the historical past of slavery taught in colleges. On Wednesday, she provided up a half-hearted correction, declaring her earlier remarks to be “imprecise.”

Mitchell’s authentic remarks included the query, “what does Governor Ron DeSantis not know about black historical past and the black expertise when he says that slavery and the aftermath of slavery shouldn’t be taught to Florida schoolchildren?”

DeSantis Press Secretary Bryan Griffin referred to as the query “shameful” and instructed MSNBC and NBC that DeSantis wouldn’t be showing on the networks till Mitchell issued a correction.

That correction got here on the very finish of Wednesday’s present:

And a postscript, in my interview final Friday with Vice President Harris, I used to be imprecise in summarizing Governor DeSantis’s place about instructing slavery in colleges. Governor DeSantis isn’t opposed to instructing the actual fact of slavery in colleges, however he has opposed the instructing of an African-American research curriculum in addition to the usage of some authors and supply supplies that historians and lecturers say makes all of it however inconceivable for college kids to perceive the broader historic and political context behind slavery and its aftermath within the years since. 

Whereas it’s good that Mitchell corrected the apparent falsehood about not instructing slavery, she nonetheless continued this different false concept that sincere instructing about “slavery and its aftermath” is no matter left-wing historians, lecturers, and activists outline as sincere even when it objectively isn’t. A number of the materials in that AP African-Research course, like queer concept, had nothing to do slavery.

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Here’s a transcript for the February 22 present:

MSNBC Andrea Mitchell Studies

2/22/2023

12:56 PM ET

ANDREA MTCHELL: And a postscript, in my interview final Friday with Vice President Harris, I used to be imprecise in summarizing Governor DeSantis’s place about instructing slavery in colleges. Governor DeSantis isn’t opposed to instructing the actual fact of slavery in colleges, however he has opposed the instructing of an African-American research curriculum in addition to the usage of some authors and supply supplies that historians and lecturers say makes all of it however inconceivable for college kids to perceive the broader historic and political context behind slavery and its aftermath within the years since.