DeSantis History
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Jedd Legum did a deep dive into the “historians” behind DeSantis’s history standards, and hoo-boy:
But a closer look into Allen’s background raises questions about his credibility and qualifications. Allen has a history of making incendiary remarks and a track record of promoting right-wing ideology. In 1989, when he served as chairman of the U.S. Civil Rights Commission, Allen gave a talk at an anti-gay conference titled “Blacks? Animals? Homosexuals? What is a Minority?” He branded “special classes of protection for homosexuals and other minorities as a ‘fatal’ mistake” that heightens “tensions and antagonism” within society. According to his prepared text, creating legal protections for minority groups “is the beginning of the evil of reducing American blacks to an equality with animals and then seducing other groups to seek the same charitable treatment.”
At the time, the rest of the Commission denounced the speech for being ”disgusting and unnecessarily inflammatory.” When the Commission held a vote to condemn the speech, Allen “was the only member of the commission to vote in behalf of himself.”
During his time as chairman, Allen was also charged with kidnapping a 14-year-old girl from an indigenous reservation in Arizona. The girl was at the center of a custody battle between her birth mother and a white couple that wanted to adopt her. “Allen contends that the girl wants to leave the reservation, though the mother has formal custody,” TIME reported in 1989.
I’m frankly surprised DeSantis didn’t make him Secretary of Education with that kind of track record.