Miami.- The vice president of USA, Kamala Harris, will attend a forum for African-American women this Tuesday in Florida against the backdrop of an official invitation from the Governor Ron DeSantis to discuss the controversial new guidelines for teaching African-American history in the state.
Harris will speak today in Orlando (central Florida) at a convention of the Women’s Missionary Society of the African Methodist Church, ten days after visiting another city in Florida, Jacksonville.
In the latter city, he harshly criticized on June 21 that the new Florida teaching guidelines spread the theory that some slaves benefited from being slaves because they learned trades.
“They insult us in an attempt to gaslight us and propaganda our children. Florida has decided that high school students be taught that enslaved people benefit from slavery. And we will not tolerate it,” Harris denounced.
As reported today by the NBC channel, DeSantis, a candidate for the Republican nomination for the 2024 presidential election, said Monday that Harris “does not miss the opportunity to appear in Florida without prior notice.”
In addition, he invited her to participate in an “open and honest dialogue” about the guidelines that she criticized, as even members of the Republican Party, such as African-American Senator Tim Scott, who is also seeking the nomination, have done.
“Given your grave concern (which I believe is sincere) about what you believe the guidelines say, I officially invite you to come to Florida to discuss our African American History guidelines. I will be happy to receive it in Tallahassee (the state capital),” DeSantis said Monday.
So far there has been no response from Harris to this invitation.
Orlando media point out that the vice president will deliver the keynote speech at the Methodist convention and that her participation in the event is part of a summer travel program to meet with voters throughout the US.
The convention is held at the Orange County Convention Center and brings together 3,000 delegates from nearly forty countries representing the oldest African-American Protestant church.
Kamala Harris, of an African-American father and an Indian mother, is the first woman to reach the US Vice Presidency.
