Governor Ron DeSantis's administration has blocked the College Board's pilot African-American Advanced Placement program from being taught in Florida high schools.

Reports in the mainstream media are of course suggesting that the move is uncalled for, and that Florida hasn't pointed to anything that they object to, but state officials have said,

As presented, the content of this course is inexplicably contrary to Florida law and significantly lacks educational value.

"In the future, should College Board be willing to come back to the table with lawful, historically accurate content, (the education department) will always be willing to reopen the discussion.

Note that the Florida officials did not even mention Critical Race Theory here, though that is certainly included in the curriculum.

The College Board notes:

To succeed on the pilot AP African American Studies test, students will have to understand the concept of intersectionality, a way of looking at discrimination through overlapping racial and gender identities, and know that while it was written about by legal scholar Kimberlé Crenshaw — a leading thinker on critical race theory — it was also talked about by 19th century thinkers like Maria Stewart, a teacher who argued that racism and sexism had to be studied together.

So don't let anyone tell you CRT isn't being taught in schools; AP is a national program, and the high school students that work really hard to get into these classes and perform well on these tests will be learning CRT now.

What's specifically in the new AP curriculum is Florida objecting to as not being historically accurate?

The new curriculum covers:

The history of the African continent, but also covering uplifting topics such as African American music and the significance of the Marvel Black Panther movie. It looks back at more than 400 years of contributions to the U.S. by people of African descent, going as far back as 1513, when Juan Garrido became the first known African in North America while on a Spanish expedition of what's now Florida.

Okay, so far no real issues, but then it gets a bit revisionist.

While the Reconstruction era after the Civil War is often skimmed over in high school U.S. history classes, AP African American Studies delves into progress made at that time, as well as how the roots of today's mass incarceration system can be traced back to that era.

Well, that might be partially true, but in terms of African American history, the current use of that system to incarcerate massive numbers of black men can be traced to the 1994 Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act written by our sitting president, Joe Biden.

I'd be surprised if that's included in the course, because as soon as Joe Biden became the Democratic presidential nominee, the history of the law's effect on the African American community was revised.

What else is revised in the course?

There are in-depth lessons on the speeches of Malcolm X and the Black Panther Party's free breakfast and medical programs, often seen as taboo topics to cover in class because critics historically smeared the group as violent and communist.

The Black Panther Party are heroes of democracy, not communism now?

And on this point, they're just completely revising history and gaslighting what's currently happening in the world as well.

The Black Panthers were avowedly communist, and modern communists all over the world see them as heroes for their part in the movement.

Black Panther Deputy Chairman Fred Hampton famously said,

But when I leave, you'll remember I said, with the last words on my lips, that I am a revolutionary. And you're going to have to keep on saying that. You're going to have to say that I am a proletariat, I am the people.

They were also quite violent revolutionaries, and the current attempts to revamp their history is just propaganda.

If you want something positive to say about the Panthers, they were 2nd Amendment advocates, even participating in pro-gun protests in DC, so let's hear the lefties spin that one.

You'll note who's missing in this curriculum though.

Where's Frederick Douglass, George Washington Carver, Martin Luther King Jr. or any of the African American people that really helped shape our nation's melting pot of racial and cultural differences?

Why pick Malcom X over any of these others as black heroes?

In a word: Christianity.

The former heroes of the African American community were professed Christian men and women that changed the world and changed a nation's racist views through their faith in Christ.

(Though you'll never find anything positive related to Christ on a standardized test, despite His inarguable positive affect on the history of our nation and our world.)

And that‘s where Florida's defense of our nation's history will ultimately fall short. Without the stalwart fortification of faith, how can we justify that Martin Luther King Jr's nonviolent confrontation was any more justifiable than Malcom X's violent version?

History taught without Christ is always a revisionist version.