Gov. J.B. Pritzker | Facebook / JB Pritzker
Gov. J.B. Pritzker | Facebook / JB Pritzker
Gov. J.B. Pritzker has written a letter to Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis blasting his decision to effectively ban an Advanced Placement high school course on African American studies from its curriculum.
He accused DeSantis of "political grandstanding" by coming out against an AP Black history course.
“I am extremely troubled by recent news reports that claim Gov. DeSantis is pressuring the College Board to change the AP African American Studies course in order to fit Florida’s racist and homophobic laws,” Pritzker (D) wrote.
In vowing that Illinois will “not accept any watering down” of history, Pritzker further urged College Board officials to “refuse to bow to political pressure that would ask you to rewrite our nation’s true, if sometimes unpleasant, history," Politico reports. In pointing a finger directly at DeSantis (R), he later added "one governor should not have the power to dictate the facts of U.S. history.”
Pritzker and DeSantis have both been mentioned as possible presidential contenders for their respective parties in 2024.
Pritzker recently secured a second term for himself as Illinois governor by easily knocking off GOP challenger Darren Bailey in November's General Election with nearly 55% of the vote, Politico says. DeSantis, meanwhile, won his 2022 re-election by the largest margin in a Florida gubernatorial race in 40 years, WUFT reported.
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