evidence: "Just yesterday in the state of Florida, they decided middle school students will be taught that enslaved people benefited from slavery," Harris told attendees of the Delta Sigma Theta Sorority's national convention. "They insult us in an attempt to gaslight us, and we will not stand for it." [...] But when presented with the language of one of the benchmarks in question -- one calling for instruction on how "slaves developed skills that, in some instances, could be used for their personal benefit" -- DeSantis seemed to distance himself even as he defended the work of the board that put the benchmarks together.