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The governor of Florida and developers of Advanced Placement courses are talking past one another.  Florida's Ron DeSantis has the upper hand at the moment by barring the AP African American studies program from the state's high school curriculum.  It is a battle of persuasion between two sides and two views of the history of the United States.  DeSantis holds to a traditional "patriotic" view that exalts the ideas of freedom held by slaveholders who wrote the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution.  Those ideas are expansive and African Americans claim the same rights given to white people.  Meanwhile, African American studies delve into the long history of slavery and denial of freedom imposed on people simply for the color of their skin. The views are fated to clash for decades to come, but eventually one or the other will win out.  It is hard to say at this juncture which one it will be.