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Whoopi Goldberg called retired Florida Governor Ron DeSantis for his efforts to prohibition DEI programs from authorities colleges during a “Hot Topics” discussion connected The View on Wednesday, February 1. The moderator called retired DeSantis for the caller propulsion aft helium already banned an A.P. people connected African American history. Goldberg stressed that adjacent if DeSantis banned Black past successful the classroom, families and communities would inactive stock their stories with 1 another.
The hosts shared a clip of the Republican politician speaking out against what helium calls “zombie studies” successful a caller program to bash distant with diversity, equity, and inclusion programs successful nationalist universities, which would see doing distant with African American studies. “We are besides going to destruct each DEI and CRT [Critical Race Theory] bureaucracies in the authorities of Florida. No backing and that volition wither connected the vine. I deliberation radical privation to spot existent academics, and they privation to get escaped of immoderate of the governmental model dressing that seems to travel each this,” DeSantis said successful a clip, which received boos from the workplace audience.
Whoopi spoke retired against the Republican governor’s latest propulsion to prohibition diverseness programs astatine nationalist colleges. (Gregory Pace/Marta Lavandier/AP/Shutterstock)After the clip ended, Goldberg pointed retired however small backing DEI programs person already, and she spoke astir however banning them from nationalist colleges wouldn’t forestall radical from learning history. “He wants it seen done [a past of occidental civilization and philosophy] lens. Why is your lens amended than my lens?” she asked. “What is it that helium doesn’t get? We’re not going anywhere. Just origin you halt teaching it successful the colleges, you deliberation radical are going to halt telling these stories? No, it’s not going to happen.”
Co-host Sunny Hostin also expressed her choler astatine DeSantis and his latest move, portion pointing retired that galore A.P. classes from different cultures too African American past hadn’t been banned, including European, Chinese, French, German, Italian, Japanese, and Spanish cultures. “I recovered it highly violative that helium compared African American studies with learning astir zombies,” she said. “Does helium conscionable not similar African Americans? When they telephone him racist against African Americans, he’s like, ‘No, I’m not.’ He’s saying that this is an ideological argument. Well, helium can’t enactment his ideology successful spot of everyone else. What happened to Republicans’ constricted government?”
Towards the extremity of the discussion, Whoopi besides warned that Black voters successful Florida whitethorn instrumentality enactment adjacent clip the politician runs for office. “My folks are from Florida. They’re Floridians, and they’ve been Black the full time. They were raised successful Florida. There’s ever been Black radical successful Florida, and if you’re not careful, that basal is going to emergence up and ballot your a** retired of there,” she said.
DeSantis has been rumored to beryllium readying a statesmanlike tally successful the 2024 election, and he’s been an outspoken professional of the class. The Florida Department of Education rejected an African American past Advanced Placement people successful January, per The New York Times. The College Board has since removed immoderate topics from the curriculum, including writers associated with Critical Race Theory and Black Lives Matter.
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