Should you solely acquired your information from liberal hosts like Don Lemon, Pleasure Reid and Stephanie Ruhle you’d suppose Republicans, significantly Florida Governor Ron DeSantis had been utterly banning all mentions of Black historical past. 

Liberal journalists and a few celebrities have spent the final month depicting conservatives (who’re merely paring again leftist indoctrination to Okay-12 children) as racist bigots whose pushback towards the woke agenda in public faculties will deliver hurt to Black Individuals. 

MSNBC’s Jason Johnson disgustingly asserted Republicans are “completely pleased with black individuals being murdered,” that it’s “simply the price of doing American enterprise. In order that they don’t care about not instructing individuals about that [history.]”

Longtime NBC Information veteran Andrea Mitchell truly claimed (falsely) that slavery was being written out of the Florida public faculty curriculum. 

Leftist hosts would have their audiences consider that Black American heroes resembling Frederick Douglass, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and Rosa Parks had been being erased from Florida public faculty textbooks. 

But a fast search of the Florida Division of Training’s web site (one thing any of those so-called journalists may have simply performed, in the event that they didn’t have an anti-DeSantis agenda) exhibits that even a few of the extra controversial leaders of the Black Energy motion (Bobby Seale, Huey P. Newton and H. Rap Brown) are a part of the curriculum.  

Right here’s the precise language from the Social Research / African American Historical past part of the positioning, listed as Benchmark # SS.912.A.7.6, Description: “Assess key figures and organizations in shaping the Civil Rights Motion and Black Energy Motion.”

Examples could embrace, however should not restricted to, the NAACP, Nationwide City League, SNCC, CORE, James Farmer, Charles Houston, Thurgood Marshall, Rosa Parks, Constance Baker Motley, the Little Rock 9, Roy Wilkins, Whitney M. Younger, A. Philip Randolph, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Robert F. Williams, Fannie Lou Hamer, Malcolm X [El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz], Stokely Carmichael [Kwame Ture], H. Rap Brown [Jamil Abdullah Al-Amin], the Black Panther Celebration [e.g., Huey P. Newton, Bobby Seale].

Here’s a transient montage from NewsBusters Media Editor Invoice D’Agostino: 

The next are a few of the worst examples of leftists within the media attacking conservatives for his or her pushback towards wokeness in public faculties: 

DeSantis and Different Republicans “Completely Pleased” with “Black Folks Being Murdered”

“There are many individuals which can be completely pleased with black individuals being murdered regularly….They’re pleased to see black individuals be killed….Or at naked minimal, I believe essentially the most charitable interpretation is, black individuals being killed, to them — to politicians like [Florida Governor] Ron DeSantis, politicians like [Attorney General Daniel] Cameron in Kentucky — black individuals being killed is simply the price of doing American enterprise. In order that they don’t care about not instructing individuals about that….There are those that like America because the violent avatar that it’s for Black our bodies, they usually need nothing to vary that, they usually positively don’t need to begin it within the classroom.”
— MSNBC political contributor Jason Johnson on MSNBC’s Deadline: White Home, February 1. 

Mitchell Spreads Lie About DeSantis and Slavery 

“Let me ask you, what does Governor Ron DeSantis not learn 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?”
— Host Andrea Mitchell to Vice President Kamala Harris on MSNBC’s Andrea Mitchell Reviews, February 17. DeSantis has mentioned himself that Florida legislation requires slavery and its aftermath to be taught. Mitchell provided a half-hearted correction on her Feb. 22 present.

“Imply” Ron DeSantis Interesting to “MAGA Devoted” by “Attacking Black Folks”

“He’s [Ron DeSantis] proper now polling simply behind Donald Trump within the newest Quinnipiac ballot. So, there’s a starvation for him, he’s a sure sort of imply that they like. They like the truth that he’s going after black historical past and you recognize attacking black individuals is form of the best solution to form of get on first base with the MAGA devoted, which we knew Donald Trump did as effectively. What do you make of the truth that he appears to be placing the entire weight of his attraction on attacking black individuals and brown immigrants and homosexual individuals and trans individuals?
— Host Pleasure Reid on MSNBC’s The ReidOut, February 16. 

Ron DeSantis to Blame for Racist Youngsters Video

Correspondent Jean Casarez: “Within the video, a lady is seen spray portray the face of one other woman black, throwing round racist insults, all whereas a number of ladies are watching.”…
Host Don Lemon: “I hope Ron DeSantis is watching and paying consideration.” 
— Throughout a section about Philadelphia highschool ladies who participated in a racist video as aired on CNN This Morning, February 9. 

“Guide Banning” Republicans Are “Erasing Historical past” 

“Florida is changing into floor zero for the tradition wars. Republicans are waging and an indication of what we’d count on on the nationwide occasion, erasing historical past, banning books anti-gay payments, gasoline stoves, and you can’t presumably make this up, monitoring menstrual cycles of pupil athletes.”
— Host Stephanie Ruhle on MSNBC’s The eleventh Hour with Stephanie Ruhle, February 3. 

Please Inform the World How “Racist” America Is

“Zooming out on the Tyre Nichols funeral in the present day, individuals each inside america and outdoors are this killing and asking, ‘Is america a racist society?’” 
— Voice of America reporter Anita Powell to White Home Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre at February 1 White Home press briefing. 

Police Brutality as “American as Apple Pie” 

“When you have a coronary heart, what occurred to the 29-year-old father [Tyre Nichols], skateboarder, FedEx driver and newbie photographer ought to outrage you. It ought to shock and disgust you. As ought to the so-called brothers who selected to behave like a little bit blue gang reasonably than as black males. However it rattling certain shouldn’t shock you. What occurred to Tyre Nichols was as American as apple pie.”
— Host Pleasure Reid on MSNBC’s The ReidOut, January 30. 

Florida Has Gone From “Don’t Say Homosexual to Don’t Say Black,” Will Be “Unlawful to Train Slavery”

“[Florida Governor Ron] DeSantis has blocked a brand new AP course on African American historical past from being taught in Florida faculties, saying that it violates state legal guidelines and is, quote, ‘traditionally inaccurate.’ Underneath DeSantis, Florida has gone from ‘Don’t say homosexual’ to ‘Don’t say black.”
— Host Mehdi Hasan on MSNBC’s The Mehdi Hasan Present, January 29.

Host Don Lemon: “Now, it’s going to be unlawful to show slavery in faculties. It appears actually odd.”
Host Audie Cornish: “I imply, the place’s he [Florida Governor Ron DeSantis] going to attract the road?”
— CNN This Morning, January 24. 

“Orwellian” DeSantis Coverage Will “Disenfranchise Folks” and Undermine “Cultural Progress” 

“What he’s [Florida Governor Ron DeSantis] performed is this sort of Orwellian plot to censor what’s being taught within the school rooms….Youngsters can’t learn books in school rooms as a result of lecturers are so scared they might get slapped with a felony….That is the best way we re-indoctrinate individuals to form of a white Christian nationalist agenda, which could be very a lot on the coronary heart of the Republican, form of, platform….DeSantis has been insanely efficient in….making a local weather of worry, and finally undermining a number of the social and cultural progress that this nation has seen.” 
— MSNBC Alex Wagner Tonight host Alex Wagner on NBC Late Evening with Seth Meyers, January 27.

“Barring” Leftist Course = “Cultural Genocide” 

“Between 1869 and the Sixties, a whole bunch of 1000’s of Native American kids had been forcibly faraway from their properties and positioned in boarding faculties operated by the federal authorities. The youngsters had been punished for talking their native languages. Their names had been modified and their hair reduce off. They had been pressured to check solely English and convert to Christianity. This brutal marketing campaign was a type of cultural genocide, to additional erase the indigenous inhabitants and although that is an excessive instance, America’s apply of pressured assimilation continues in the present day. Like in Florida the place [Governor] Ron DeSantis is barring training about race, gender, sexual orientation, or any a part of historical past which may make white Christians really feel dangerous.”
— Host Pleasure Reid on MSNBC’s The ReidOut, January 24. 

Reagan Used MLK Vacation to “Advance” His “Anti-Black Campaign” 

“It was President Reagan who popularized the tactic of co-opting Dr. King’s philosophy of a color-blind society to advance his assault on racial progress….Even quoting King whereas attacking affirmative motion, as he weakened the enforcement of civil rights legal guidelines…It was Reagan who signed the King vacation invoice into legislation again in 1983….The legislation got here with benefits, not for the nation or for individuals of colour however for Reagan. By pacifying his critics….to advance the anti-black campaign he had waged because the Sixties, now beneath the alluring mantle of colour blindness.”
— Host Pleasure Reid on MSNBC’s The ReidOut, January 16.

“Fascist” DeSantis Going to “Ban the Alphabet”

Co-host Ana Navarro: “I reside in Florida. I reside beneath Governor Ron Catastrophe!…Day by day I ponder what he’s going to be? What’s the flavour du jour in the present day? What’s he going to be towards in the present day? He’s towards A.P. He’s towards DEI, variety, fairness, and inclusion. He’s towards ESG this week. He’s towards electrical stoves. He’s towards LGBTQ. I believe he’s going to ban the alphabet. Holy hell!”…
Co-host Pleasure Behar: “These individuals, these fascists on the market like DeSantis, they suppose that we’re simply going to sit down again and allow them to do no matter they need. No, we’re not. We’ve seen this film earlier than….These of us who lived within the 60s and 70s, we noticed this film. There have been many many fascists coming down the pike from [Richard] Nixon and the remainder of the fascists, that’s what they’re.”
— ABC’s The View, February 16.

“Anti-Black” DeSantis Interesting to His “Racist” Constituents

Co-host Pleasure Behar: Do you suppose he’s [Florida Governor Ron DeSantis] racist?
Revolt TV and former WABC radio host Eboni Okay. Williams: “I believe he’s anti-black. And I actually wish to say that exactly, as a result of Sunny [Hostin] made a superb level. He talks in regards to the significance of Spanish tradition of Chinese language tradition. So, there’s a worldwide inclusion that works time beyond regulation to get rid of and erase blackness particularly. And we now have to establish that.”
Behar: “That’s mainly to say to his constituents, who’re racist, ‘Look what I’m doing.’”
Hostin: “Yeah. ‘I’m a pacesetter on this space.’”
— ABC’s The View, February 1.

Reality-Test False: Florida Making It Unlawful to “Study About Enslaved Folks” 

“Even what’s going on in Florida, you don’t even need us to be taught our historical past. Like, there was a time when enslaved individuals couldn’t be taught and now it’s unlawful for us to study enslaved individuals.”
— The Day by day Present substitute-host/comic D.L. Hughley on Comedy Central’s The Day by day Present, January 30.

Conservatives Who Oppose Wokeness Are Simply “Items of Shit”

“What I do know ‘woke’ to imply is, like, studying new issues about individuals or the world, after which performing accordingly like, fundamental kindness. Possibly a gesture of care to people who find themselves extra weak than you. You recognize what, you wouldn’t prefer it, it’s Jesus stuff, however they’re like, ‘Yeah, however I don’t like once they push it on me.’ No person’s pushing shit on you. You’re performing like a beta cuck. Like, woke for the proper is basically simply an umbrella time period in order that they don’t must say particularly that they’re items of shit. It feels cooler to say, ‘I’m not woke,’ than the reality, which is, ‘I’m petrified of what I don’t perceive and I solely know the best way to course of that as anger as a result of I can’t look inward.’”
— Comic/actress Sarah Silverman substitute-hosting on Comedy Central’s The Day by day Present, February 15. 

Evaluating GOP Candidates to a Venereal Illness

“A brand new Wall Avenue Journal ballot says that, in a hypothetical GOP major matchup, DeSantis beats the previous president 52 p.c to 38 p.c. Yay? Additionally possibly boo? It’s onerous to know who to root for right here. It’s like a ballot between gonorrhea and a barely extra racist gonorrhea….Apologies to gonorrhea.”
— Host Stephen Colbert on CBS’s The Late Present with Stephen Colbert, December 14.