In a recent segment on CNN’s “State of the Union,” conservative political commentator Scott Jennings voiced his criticism of Vice President Kamala Harris, slamming Harris for false Florida curriculum claims. Jennings took issue with Harris’ statement regarding Florida’s new middle school black history curriculum, where she alleged that the curriculum includes lessons suggesting “that enslaved people benefited from slavery.”
During the segment, CNN anchor Dana Bash played a video of Harris making these remarks while she was in Florida following the state’s Board of Education decision to approve the new curriculum on black history.
“Just yesterday in the state of Florida, they decided middle school students will be taught that enslaved people benefited from slavery,” Harris said, according to Fox News. “They insult us in an attempt to gaslight us, and we will not stand for it.”
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Jennings addressed the controversy over the new curriculum as a “made-up deal.”
“Well, it’s amazing to me that how little Kamala Harris apparently has to do, that she can read something on Twitter one day and be on an airplane the next to make something literally out of nothing,” he said. “This is a completely made-up deal. I looked at the standards. I even looked at an analysis of the standards in every instance where the word slavery or slave was used.”
Jennings continued, “I even read the statement of the African American scholars that wrote the standards, not [Gov.] Ron DeSantis, but the scholars. Everybody involved in this says this is completely a fabricated issue. And yet look how quickly Kamala Harris jumped on it.”
CNN political commentator Karen Finney praised Harris’ remarks, calling her performance a “stellar moment.”
“It was a stellar moment, and I think she did something that she has done often in the last couple of years, which is in a moment when something needed to be said, she got out there and said it, and really channeled what people were feeling. I mean, the idea that we would literally have a conversation – I have to laugh, it is so disgusting that there were personal benefits of any kind to slaves. It is like saying women, we’re happy when we couldn’t vote and we couldn’t have our own banking accounts. It is just ridiculous,” Finney said.
Another CNN commentator Ashley Allison said, “I’m glad she spoke on the issue – just because Black people write it doesn’t mean it’s going to be accurate. We can disagree with Black people as well. I think what the bigger picture is that this is happening in Florida.”
“I think at this panel we could all agree that slaves did not benefit from slavery. Even if the citation said, ‘Well, they might have gotten …,’ they didn’t have a choice, so that is not a benefit,” she continued.
Allison finally added: “Slaves did not have the freedom to choose if — Ron DeSantis said maybe they could have become a blacksmith, not when they didn’t have the choice to become a blacksmith. And so that was what Kamala Harris was saying.”
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