Senator Tim Scott, the most high-profile Black candidate in the 2024 Republican presidential race, has blasted his rival Ron DeSantis, Florida's governor, over the state's newly adopted Black history curriculum, saying "there's no silver lining" in slavery.
Without naming DeSantis, Scott said he hoped that every candidate in the Republican field "would appreciate that."
Scott's remarks came after another prominent Black Republican, U.S. Representative Byron Donalds of Florida, also criticized the new standards.
That triggered an outraged pushback from DeSantis' campaign online, which suggested Donalds was a supporter of Kamala Harris, a Democrat and the first Black vice president.
Harris last week delivered a fierce rebuke of DeSantis and the history curriculum while on a trip to Florida.
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