“Roger B. Taney” DeSantis, nothin’ but a fearful, rabid White Supremacist

The release of the AP African American Studies syllabus, no-holds-barred bears that out

Not only am I really pissed off now about “Roger B. Taney” DeSantis banning this course on our history, I’m disappointed that parents in the state aren’t up in arms over this blatant act of White Supremacy (but that could be because he’s also busy banning the right to protest).

Quite frankly, after reading this, which includes the 79-page curriculum, first published by The Florida Standard and released today by NBC News, the entire country should be raising holy hell.

Please take the time to really read the syllabus, Family — and if you would, please share your thoughts in the comments. Here it is in its entirety: AP African American Studies Coursework and Exam Overview.

Let me just say, while I was fortunate enough to have had teachers of the “New Black” tradition (once I went to public school from the segregated Black Catholic school where I learned absolutely nothing about me), who exposed me to James Baldwin (my literary hero), James Weldon Johnson, bell hooks, Audre Lorde, Angela Davis (my personal shero), Langston Hughes, Ralph Ellison, Richard Wright, Zora Neale Hurston, August Wilson, Toni Morrison, Nikki Giovanni, Sonia Sanchez and a host of other Black intellectual and talented luminaries — had I, as a high school student learned HALF of what’s presented in…