As critics denounced Florida’s new African American history standards for teaching children that slavery came with benefits, one of the coauthors stepped forward to ease everyone’s mind.

 

His name is William B. Allen, a soft-spoken 79-year­­­­­­­-old, retired professor. It didn’t hurt his credibility that he is also Black. On Fox News, he told Jesse Watters that critics of the standards, such as Vice President Kamala Harris, are lying in their analysis because they have an agenda.

 

“They only want slavery to be told from a certain perspective,” he said, adding that it’s actually racists who “continue to propagate the false picture that the birth of the nation was nothing but slavery.”