Jacksonville Racist

While attending a prayer vigil in Jacksonville for the three Black victims of a racist shooter, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, aka Ron DeSanctimonious, aka Ron DumbSantis, aka Ron DuhSantis, aka Meatball Ron, and aka Governor Pudding Fingers, was booed and heckled. Amidst the boos was a, “You’re not welcome here” and a “Your policies caused this.”

Ron DeSantis called the shootings “unacceptable” and, “We are not going to let people be targeted based on their race.” Except, he’s crafted policies that are based on race.

Ron DeSantis has loosened Florida’s gun laws. Despite the police being called on the shooter for a domestic disturbance and being placed in counseling, he was still able to legally purchase two guns in Florida.

The DeSantis administration is wiping out higher education diversity programs and the teaching of institutional racism to public school students. It’s also banned courses on Black history. DeSantis personally redrew a redistricting map that erased northern Florida’s only Black congressional seat which included Jacksonville. When DeSantis isn’t too distracted from waging a war on woke and the LGBTQ community, he attacks black people.

At the vigil, DeSantis called the gunman a “scumbag.” Jeffrey Rumlin, a Jacksonville pastor who spoke after DeSantis, was more direct, saying, “At the end of the day, respectfully, governor, he was not a scumbag. He was a racist.” DeSantis has to be careful criticizing racists because racists vote for him. I’m mostly shocked he didn’t say there are “good people on both sides.”

Florida state senator Shevrin Jones, a Miami Democrat who is Black, said, “Him showing up in Jacksonville looked like a political stunt from someone running for president. You can’t take three or four years of his actions and then show up to the Black community saying, ‘I stand with you.’ No, you don’t.”

Jones pointed out that then-Congressman DeSantis visited the scene of the Pulse nightclub massacre in Orlando in 2016, which left 49 people dead, saying, “He was there and it did not change his response to the LGBTQ community.”

Florida state representative Angie Nixon, a Black Democrat who represents Jacksonville, told MSNBC, “He has had an all-out attack on the Black community with his anti-woke policies, which we know very well was nothing more than a dog whistle to get folks riled up in a way it just happened yesterday.”

And don’t forget that DeSantis’ Department of Education released educational standards teaching that Black people learned skills from slavery that were to their “personal benefit.”

Ron DeSantis has spent his political career appealing to angry racist white men. The only statement he should be making about a racist shooter killing Black people is his taking responsibility.

One skill Republicans like Ron DeSantis have taught Black people that’s to their “personal benefit” is voting against Republicans.

Update on trolls: I do not mind people who disagree with me commenting on my posts. I welcome and encourage debates. But what we’ve been getting lately has been nothing but trolling. If they change the subject, do nothing but attack, and use terms like “dummycraps,” “demonrats,” and “libtards,” then they’re trolls and they will be blocked. The latest left about 50 comments overnight on various blog posts from the past few years. I’m guessing he was up late drunk and leaving comments. I also received an email overnight that was very similar to his posts. He has been blocked.

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