[Source.](https://freebeacon.com/biden-administration/watch-black-professor-behind-florida-history-standards-slams-kamalas-false-criticism/) > Vice President Kamala Harris's claim that Florida's new education standards whitewash slavery is "categorically false," Florida Board of Education adviser William B. Allen said in an unaired ABC News interview. > Allen, a Michigan State University emeritus professor who is black, told ABC that the standards "never said that slavery was beneficial to Africans," as Harris claimed. "What was said, and anyone who reads this will see this with clarity, [is that] Africans ... were able to develop skills and aptitudes which served to their benefit, both while enslaved and after enslavement."