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DeSantis, who is running for the 2024 Republican presidential
nomination, on Monday invited Harris to Florida to discuss the
state's new Black history curriculum after the vice president
criticized it for backing guidelines that she said taught
"revisionist history" about slavery in the United States.
Florida's board of education approved new guidelines in July,
including one for middle school students that states
"instruction includes how slaves developed skills which, in some
instances, could be applied for their personal benefit."
On Tuesday, Harris, made a previously-scheduled speech in the
state, telling the audience, "Well, I'm here in Florida. I will
tell you, there is no roundtable, no lecture, no invitation we
will accept to debate an undeniable fact: There were no
redeeming qualities of slavery."
Harris was in Orlando to deliver remarks at an African Methodist
Episcopal Church event.
Harris has been on the offensive during a tour of nearly a dozen
U.S. states in recent weeks, attacking DeSantis, telling Iowa
healthcare workers to rebel against the state's new restrictive
abortion laws and rallying Latinos in Chicago to fight
"extremist" Republicans.
DeSantis, who earlier this year blocked an advanced placement
African American studies course from being taught to high
schoolers in his state, accused the Biden administration of
disparaging Florida and misinforming Americans on the subject.
(Reporting by Nandita Bose in Washington; Editing by Alistair
Bell and Bill Berkrot)
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