![]() On Jan. 12, 2023, you wrote a rejection letter to the state College Board, rejecting a new high school Advanced Placement African American Studies (APAAS) course, which you claim violates Florida’s “Stop W.O.K.E.” Act. Your letter read in part, “as presented, the content of this course is inexplicably contrary to Florida law and significantly lacks educational value.” An Advanced Placement African American Studies course that, according to you, lacks educational value. My Eighth-grade American History teacher, Mr. Rutledge H. Pearson, said to me and my fellow students in the eighth grade in his class, “Freedom is not free. If you are not a part of the solution, you are a part of the problem.” I visit those words daily from Mr. Pearson, my mentor, who was also the adviser of the Jacksonville Youth Council NAACP, which I joined at age eleven. I wanted to be a part of the solution. Mr. Pearson did not teach his students American History, from the racist and bigoted viewpoints of White American historians and textbook authors who only saw fit to include two Blacks in our American history textbooks approved for Negro (the vernacular at the time) education, but from the truth. He told us to "Leave the textbooks home." American history textbooks, approved for “Negro” students in my “Negro” Junior High School, in the “Negro” Division of the Duval County Public School System. Mr. Pearson recognized that the American History textbook given to him to teach his students was repulsively not truthful, and he refused to be a party to an Incomplete, Dishonest, and Racist American History. When truthful history books are written about your administration and the State of Florida during your administration, Governor DeSantis, I wonder what they will say? Will they say you are a part of the problem and not a part of the solution? Will they say you created the “Ron DeSantis Education Agenda” to “twist and manipulate” American history to your racist liking? Will they say you intimidated the education community-public schools, colleges, and universities in the State of Florida with insidiously racist pronouncements to teach lies about American History or not teach American History at all? Will they say your governor’s edicts had schoolteachers and college professors “cowering in fear” about what they could and could not teach and afraid of their jobs? Will they say your “informational letter about funding for “Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion” to colleges and universities had as its pathological intent to “frighten” administrators and college/university presidents from doing the right thing because it was the right thing to do, and afraid of their jobs? Will they say your vulgar reference to Black History having “insignificant educational value” means you are clueless that two of the most significant Civil Rights leaders in the history of this nation were Floridians James Weldon Johnson and A. Philip Randolph? Will they say your vulgar reference to Black History having “insignificant educational value” means that you are proclaiming the racial massacre of Blacks and the destruction of Rosewood, Florida, never happened? That the racial massacre of Blacks and the destruction of Ocoee, Florida, never happened? That Harry T. Moore and his wife Harriette Moore were not killed when their home was bombed on their 25th wedding anniversary on Christmas day because they advocated for voter registration for Blacks? That young people, primarily teenagers, did not feel the violent wrath of ax handles and baseball bats in downtown Jacksonville, peacefully sitting in at segregated White lunch counters protesting segregation and racism, even though they were invited into the stores to spend money as shoppers? That FAMU students were not beaten and jailed because they were protesting the racism of downtown Tallahassee stores? That Johnnie Mae Chappelle was not shot and killed merely Walking While Black? These violent events happened because of the lack of respect for those whose skin hue was and is Black—the same disrespect which is a cornerstone of White American Christian Racism. The same disrespect you have shown since your first day as the governor of this state of sunshine and beaches and core racist attitudes. Therein lies your problem, Governor DeSantis. Your racist disrespect is as apparent as your racism. You have been enabled and empowered by a generous assortment of "do-gooder Christian Whites" who profess to want Sisterhood and Brotherhood without calling out the very racism which prevents Brotherhood and Sisterhood. I used to castigate racist Mississippi governor Ross Barnett and racist Alabama governor George Wallace as Grand Dragons of the Ku Klux Klan without the hood and the robe. Klansmen in suits. Let me “congratulate” you for taking your rightful place on the pedestal of “Most Racist Governors” in American History. And like Ross Barnett and George Wallace, you do not need a robe. Racist Governor Ron DeSantis. It has a ring to it. You have earned your racist stripes.
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Ron DeDantis-Oh and the Holocaust during World War II did not happen, nor did slavery happen. Don't want White folks to feel guilty or uncomfortable. Ed Hall is on it.
![]() YOU created slavery. YOU created racism. YOU seceded from the United States of America to form an enemy government, called the Confederacy, and fought a war to maintain slavery, so YOU could continue to Profit from a Free Labor Economy. YOU lost that war. YET, YOU WERE STILL allowed to erect confederate monuments to show YOUR hatred and divisiveness and YOUR insistence on parading YOUR Christian White American Racism. YOU passed laws to keep me and those who look like me in "OUR PLACE." YOU elected racists, and racist presidents, to help you revert to those days when VIOLENCE was the answer to the Civil Rights Movement. WE Challenge the visible symbols of the confederacy in public places and question why YOU continue to lie about, celebrate and revere the leaders of the racist confederate cause. The answer is VERY CLEAR, YOU are racists, pure and simple. I know I ask this question from time to time, but, it is always topical and appropriate, so here goes again-
Why would a Black person join, represent, and run for political office, as a pawn of the racist trump Republicant party? What is it about your integrity do you not respect, and what is it about your Black history do you not believe? White folks, you all are funny, in a negative way.
You vote for and elect racists thinking they will only do their racist thing against me and those who look like me, and y'all get upset when your favorite "White racist of the month" goes after White women's rights after they told you they would, and also go after education-i.e.- banning books, packing school boards with anti-public education racists, giving away tax payer money to private schools, not what you expected, eh? What can go wrong when you put your trust in racists governors and racist presidents? THE MEDIA CONTINUOUSLY LEAVE OUT THE KEY WORDS-"INCOMPETENT RACIST donald trump REPUBLICANTS."12/19/2022 'Dimwitted' Republicans buried by Wall Street Journal over post-midterm chaos.
In a blistering opinion piece from the Wall Street Journal on Saturday morning, the editorial board hammered House Republicans for turning their takeover of the House in the midterms election into a circus as members battle over who will be the new Speaker. With their slim majority margin -- due in great part to the failure of the so-called "red wave" to materialize in the November midterm election -- presumptive new Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) is finding it impossible to get the 218 votes he needs to move on from being House Minority Leader. As the WSJ editors point out, there is little difference in the policies espoused by McCarthy and his detractors and the battle is not only a waste of time but evidence that the House Republicans are bound and determined to screw up their success at becoming the House majority. In a word, the editors called un-named GOP House members "dimwitted." After writing, "A handful of other backbenchers say they’ll also oppose Mr. McCarthy, which could lead to multiple ballots and perhaps even a Democratic Speaker," the editors added, "What’s bizarre is that the dissenters don’t have major policy differences with Mr. McCarthy or a plausible alternative candidate for Speaker. Mr. Biggs has no chance. He and his rump group also don’t seem to have any constructive reason to oppose Mr. McCarthy beyond a desire to grab the media spotlight or blow everything up." They continued, "... a narrow GOP majority of only 222-213 requires a leader who can enforce discipline. That’s how Nancy Pelosi has been able to govern with the mirror-image majority in the last two years. Too many House Republicans are too dimwitted to understand the uses of power and how to wield it. They’d rather rage against the machine to no useful effect." Also swept up in the WSJ editorial attack are the Republicans in the Senate who are working on an omnibus deal with the Democrats that the editors said is not helping McCarthy's cause. "[Senate Minority Leader] Mitch McConnell and the Senate GOP don’t trust that Mr. McCarthy can deliver in January, or so they say. They won’t even give him the chance," they wrote before adding, "Senate Democrats and the White House will have a united front and could roll over a divided GOP." RACIST REPUBLICANTS DOING WHAT THEY DO. A racist tourist, desperate for water, was plodding through the African desert, lost and separated from other racist tourists, when he saw something far off in the distance.
Hoping to find water, he hurried toward the mirage, only to find a very frail little old Black man standing at a small makeshift display rack - selling ties. The racist asked in his expected arrogant and demeaning way, "Do you have water?" The Black man replied, "I have no water. Would you like to buy a tie? They are only $5." The racist shouted hysterically, displaying his lexicon of racist epithets, " Bleeping Idiot! I do not need a tie. I don’t wear ties anyway. donald trump does. We support him but we do not wear ties. I need water!" "Sorry, I have none, just ties - pure silk, and only $5." "To Hell with your ties! I should wrap one around your scrawny little bleeping neck and choke the life out of you, but I must conserve my energy and find water!" "Okay," said the little old Black man. "It does not matter that you do not want to buy a tie from me, or that you hate me, threaten my life, and call me the names that you usually call those who look like me. I will show you that I am bigger than any of that. If you continue over that hill to the east for about two miles, you will find a restaurant. It has the finest food and all the ice-cold water you need. Go In Peace." Shouting Racial epithets at him again, the racist staggered away, over the hill. Several hours later, he crawled back, almost dead, and gasped, "They won't let me in without a tie..." You never can tell where you might get your best advice! IT IS AMAZING, BUT NOT SURPRISING, WHAT A " MELL OF A HESS" this Democratic country is in today, because racist White America decided to elect a slovenly, incompetent, narcissistic, scandal ridden, self-serving, criminal racist donald trump as president, who after he lost his re-election, instigated an insurrection by his racist followers to try and overthrow the United States and American Democracy in the process; AND ALL THIS AFTER 8 notable noteworthy years of a distinguished, exceptional, respected, respectable, remarkable scandal free Barack Obama and a Barack Obama Administration. And many ask, "How did we get to this place?"
ENACTING RACIST LAWS, THEN AS NOW, BECAUSE THEY COULD.
South Carolina Enacts Law Requiring Contracts to Refer to White People as "Masters." On December 19, 1865, South Carolina passed a law that forced recently emancipated Blacks into subservient social relationships with white landowners, stating that “all persons of color who make contracts for service or labor, shall be known as servants, and those with whom they contract, shall be known as masters.” Following the Civil War and emancipation, many freed Blacks in the South remained subjugated by their former White enslavers. In South Carolina and other former slaveholding states, many freed people continued to reside in the same communities, sometimes on the same land, working for White people who had previously claimed they "owned" them as property. Freedmen had limited opportunities to earn money to support themselves and their families and often continued to work as manual laborers in slavery-like conditions. Black Codes enacted following emancipation sought to maintain White control over freedmen and perpetuated the exploitation Black people had experienced during slavery. South Carolina's Black Codes, like others, contained many laws that applied only to Blacks. The new law passed on this day required Black “servants” to work from dawn to dusk and to maintain a “polite” demeanor. South Carolina reached even further into Black laborers’ personal lives, prohibiting apprentices to marry without their masters’ permission, forbidding farmers living on their masters’ land to have visitors, and imposing a curfew. Another Black Code sought to restrict the upward mobility of the Black community by forbidding freedmen in South Carolina from pursuing any occupation other than laborer unless able to pay a $100 fee. NASTY AND CRUEL RACIST WHITE AMERIKKKAN CHRISTIANS. |
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