{"id":116507,"date":"2023-07-31T01:37:11","date_gmt":"2023-07-31T01:37:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/?p=116507"},"modified":"2023-07-31T01:37:12","modified_gmt":"2023-07-31T01:37:12","slug":"tim-scott-slams-desantis-on-teaching-about-slavery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/?p=116507","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Tim Scott Slams DeSantis on Teaching About Slavery&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/politicalwire.com\/2023\/07\/28\/tim-scott-slams-desantis-on-teaching-about-slavery\/\" target=\"_blank\">Political Wire<\/a>: &#8220;Sen. Tim Scott (R-SC)\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/stephaniealai\/status\/1684734206448926720\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">criticized<\/a>\u00a0Gov. Ron DeSantis on Florida\u2019s new teaching standards around slavery \u2014 \u201cand effectively guaranteed that the Florida governor would see it figure into his coverage for several more days,\u201d\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/newsletters\/playbook\/2023\/07\/28\/new-felony-charges-rock-trump-world-00108709?nname=playbook&amp;nid=0000014f-1646-d88f-a1cf-5f46b7bd0000&amp;nrid=0000014e-f0ed-dd93-ad7f-f8edad790000&amp;nlid=630318\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Politico<\/a>\u00a0reports.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Said Scott: \u201cThere\u2019s no silver lining in slavery. Slavery was really about separating families, about mutilating humans and even raping their wives. It was devastating\u2026 I would hope that every person in our country \u2014 and certainly running for president \u2014 would appreciate that. And listen: People have bad days. Sometimes, they regret what they say. And we should ask them again to clarify their positions.\u201d&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Political Wire: &#8220;Sen. Tim Scott (R-SC)\u00a0criticized\u00a0Gov. Ron DeSantis on Florida\u2019s new teaching standards around slavery \u2014 \u201cand effectively guaranteed that the Florida governor would see it figure into his coverage for several more days,\u201d\u00a0Politico\u00a0reports. Said Scott: \u201cThere\u2019s no silver lining in slavery. Slavery was really about separating families, about mutilating humans and even raping their&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-116507","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newsstory"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116507","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=116507"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116507\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":116510,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116507\/revisions\/116510"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=116507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=116507"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=116507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}