CNN Newsroom host Bianna Golodryga invited former Secretary of Schooling Arne Duncan on to the Thursday program to debate the newest developments surrounding the School Board and AP African-American Research. If the purpose was to coach the viewers, then Duncan failed as he claimed Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has “a white nationalist agenda” and that “one thing insidious is occurring in Florida.”

The query Golodryga requested was not essentially a horrible one, “Okay, let’s get your response first to the School Board for the framework of the AP African-American research programs, after all, coming after Florida’s governor, Ron DeSantis, banned it from lecture rooms within the state.”

As a substitute of addressing the revised content material, Duncan launched into an unhinged and nasty private collection of assaults towards DeSantis, “Effectively, sadly, you recognize, Governor DeSantis has been very, very clear he has what seems to be a white nationalist agenda.”

Duncan additionally declared that, “what I hate most is he simply all the time assaults probably the most susceptible, whether or not the AP African-American historical past, whether or not it’s the LGBTQ neighborhood, whether or not it’s immigrants, he all the time assaults probably the most susceptible and I just– it says much more about us than about him and I simply hope voters in Florida and voters throughout the nation do not suppose that’s what our nation wants is extra bullying, extra attacking on people who want our assist and our assist.”

It’s African-American Research, not African-American Historical past and the distinction isn’t a small one. Among the many modifications listed on the display had been “Solely require evaluation of ‘core historic, literary, and creative works'” and now not together with “Queer life and expression in Black communities.”

Golodryga then tried to re-ask her authentic query, “Have you ever been capable of look via this preliminary framework that was simply unveiled as a result of we’re it on the display now? Any modifications when you’ve got that stands out to you that perhaps maybe worries you?”

Amazingly, Duncan admitted to commenting even though “I have never seen the small print. I simply suppose that it’s so necessary that younger individuals have entry to America’s full historical past, that we do not cover from the robust elements and we have a good time the good elements.”

Perhaps if Duncan had bothered to do his homework, he wouldn’t have accused DeSantis of hiding historical past, however doing his homework would imply that he couldn’t have declared “You see him eradicating, you recognize, books from lecture rooms, you see these, simply very chilling images of college libraries, classroom libraries, empty cabinets. One thing insidious is occurring in Florida and it’s terribly disturbing.”

That is who CNN rolls out as an training skilled. If not educating about “queer life” in African-American Research is “insidious” then one would hate to seek out out what else Duncan considers insidious.

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Here’s a transcript for the February 1 present:

CNN Newsroom

2/1/2023

10:56 AM ET

BIANNA GOLODRYGA: Okay, let’s get your response first to the School Board for the framework of the AP African-American research programs, after all, coming after Florida’s governor, Ron DeSantis, banned it from lecture rooms within the state. 

ARNE DUNCAN: Effectively, sadly, you recognize, Governor DeSantis has been very, very clear he has what seems to be a white nationalist agenda. And what I hate most is he simply all the time assaults probably the most susceptible, whether or not the AP African-American historical past, whether or not it’s the LGBTQ neighborhood, whether or not it’s immigrants, he all the time assaults probably the most susceptible and I just– it says much more about us than about him and I simply hope voters in Florida and voters throughout the nation do not suppose that’s what our nation wants is extra bullying, extra attacking on people who want our assist and our assist. 

GOLODRYGA: Have you ever been capable of look via this preliminary framework that was simply unveiled as a result of we’re it on the display now? Any modifications when you’ve got that stands out to you that perhaps maybe worries you? 

DUNCAN: I have never seen the small print. I simply suppose that it’s so necessary that younger individuals have entry to America’s full historical past, that we do not cover from the robust elements and we have a good time the good elements. Clearly gaining access to AP lessons, college students don’t simply be taught, they get faculty credit, it makes faculty extra inexpensive for his or her households and so ensuring college students throughout the nation, together with Florida, do not have this historical past whitewashed. You see him eradicating, you recognize, books from lecture rooms, you see these, simply very chilling images of college libraries, classroom libraries, empty cabinets. One thing insidious is occurring in Florida and it’s terribly disturbing.