Maybe it would be, maybe not.
I evaluate things the same way irrespective of the speaker. When I first heard this, I figured it could be a misstatement, because most of them generally remember and know better, what not to say out loud. But I saw DeSantis on the national evening news repeating what it was all about. If you're trying to find the quote verbatim that could be why you're not able to locate it.
This is what he stated in support of Florida's new "social studies curriculum" some anti-WOKE acronym they came up with:
Here's the direct quote:
At an event in Utah, Governor DeSantis defended how
slavery will
now be taught in Florida middle schools. Children will now be taught that enslaved persons picked up skills that they later “parlayed” into profitable crafts after slavery was abolished.
“They’re probably going to show that some of the folks that eventually parlayed, you know, being a blacksmith into doing things later in life,” Mr DeSantis told reporters on Friday.
This is the legislation I believe that allegedly has authorized much of the insanity we're now seeing in Florida. I have not read it in detail I only know about what's been excerpted in various news articles and stories: