This just gets better and better.
As you’ve heard, in Florida, school children will learn that Blacks benefitted from slavery and that African-Americans are to be partially blamed for their own massacres. There’s plenty of other hair-raising falsehoods, like George Washington was “a key figure in the quest to end slavery” and civil disobedience-a key component in the civil rights movement—is “irresponsible citizenship.”
I wondered who the hell were these so-called “scholars” on the African-American history work group that made so many blatantly false claims. It turns out that the most vocal and forceful on the work group, Dr. William B. Allen and Frances Rice, are so right-wing that they make Candace Owens appear liberal. Worse, they’ve got quite a history.
Dr. William Allen
Reagan and Bush loved putting Black conservatives who were willing to act as agents for white supremacy in key roles, like Clarence Thomas. One of those men was Dr. William Allen. He was an outspoken extremist, and of course was appointed chairman of the US Civil Rights Commission.
He spoke in 1989 at an anti-gay conference with a talk that delighted the evangelical crowd but enraged the homosexual and Black community. Allen argued that Black people and gay people should not seek special protections for minority classes because it has historically “heightened tensions and antagonism” within society. The title of his talk was problematic as well.
The talk was entitled: “Blacks? Animals? Homosexuals? What is a Minority?”
Allen, saying that “my title is an innocent as a title can be,” explained that it was intended to show that treating homosexuals and blacks as distinct minorities would essentially relegate them to animal status.
Isn’t he a peach?
He also was charged with kidnapping a 14-year old girl from an indigenous reservation in Arizona. There was a custody battle between the girl’s birth mother and a white couple that wanted to adopt her. For whatever reason, he thought it was okay to pick the girl up from school without her parents’ permission and interview her. He was arrested at gunpoint.
Mr. Allen read a 22-page statement and showed a videotape of his visit. He defended his actions as an attempt to determine how tribal courts handle custody cases. He said he had committed no crime or impropriety.
Although the kidnapping charge was dropped, the TIME article on his “odd antics” said George Bush Sr. wanted to replace this wackadoodle with a “moderate” Black Republican.
Frances Rice
The other right-wing extremist in the working group was Frances Presley Rice. She is the chair of the National Black Republican Association. She is most known for running despicable ads falsely claiming that Martin Luther King Jr. was Republican. Her magazine, The Black Republican, had articles like “Democrats embrace their child molesters” and “Democrats wage war on God.”
Supporters call Rice relentless, a black Republican willing to say things white Republicans cannot. Detractors say she is setting back the GOP's black outreach effort with her inflammatory campaigns.
The GOP chair at the time was so incensed with her that he promised to be more careful about groups he donated money to.
She is also a bit nuts. She has no academic credentials whatsoever in Black history, and although she has no PhD. she bills herself as “Dr. Frances Rice.”
She was likely picked because she co-founded a group that puts out white supremacist talking points as Black history:
This gives you insight into who the idiots were that put horrible, racist lies into Florida’s curriculum for millions of school children. This also proves that you don’t have to be white to promote white supremacism.