Florida Slavery Curriculum Co-Author: This Is About Having People Who Lived The Experience Tell Their Stories

Dr. William Allen, one of the co-authors of Florida’s slavery curriculum, fact-checks Vice President Kamala Harris’ claims about what students will learn on ‘Jesse Watters Primetime.’

WILLIAM ALLEN: Permit me not to give you Kamala Harris's motives, they are invisible. We can all have suspicions that there is a dishonest purpose afoot. But what's more important than that dishonest purpose is the truth. This curriculum is devoted to telling the truth, whereas Kamala Harris had retold a lie. It may only have been a falsehood the first time she stated it, but when you repeat a falsehood, it becomes a lie.

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"Permit me to have Frederick Douglass tell her. He wrote an autobiography, in which he described how the mistress of his slave owner began to teach him to read. She pulled back the curtain through which a glimmer of light shown, before the master forced her to close it.