Kamala Harris rejects Ron DeSantis offer to discuss slavery curriculum

Vice-president says she will not accept invitation to debate an undeniable fact: there were no redeeming qualities of slavery'

Kamala Harris fired back at the Florida governor, Ron DeSantis, after he invited her to discuss new school standards for the teaching of African American history which claim some enslaved people derived benefits that could be used in later life.

There is no roundtable, no lecture, no invitation we will accept to debate an undeniable fact: there were no redeeming qualities of slavery," the vice-president said.