Episode 32: The Court Room of History

Political Junkie Podcast · Jul 29, 2023 · 50m

You just heard an excerpt from Vice President Kamala Harris’s response to the new standards for teaching African American history in Florida. Released by that state’s Department of Education on Thursday, July 20, 2023, the standards, as New York Times columnist Jamelle Bouie put it, return Florida’s students to “an older, tendentious approach that either de-emphasized or ignored outright the basic injustice of human bondage in favor of a gloss that placed a more pleasant sheen on an otherwise horrific institution.”

So, on July 21, Harris jettisoned her plans and instead headed to…