South Carolina Senator Tim Scott has criticised fellow Republican presidential candidate and Florida Governor Ron DeSantis for supporting new standards that require teachers to instruct middle school history students that slaves developed skills that “could be applied for their personal benefit”.
“What slavery was really about was separating families... about mutilating humans and even raping their wives. It was just devastating,” Mr Scott, the sole Black Republican in the Senate, told reporters on Thursday after a town hall in Ankeny, Iowa.
