A Republican Florida Governor’s attempt to ‘white wash’ slavery’s action against Black American’s has lit up push back from the Black’s in the Grand ole Party who will NOT accept those efforts quietly and a President who embraces a tribute to a Black teen murdered in 1955….
For those who thought eight years of a mixed/Black President was the achievement that would advance race conscience in America?
Think Twice….
Alabama just gave the nations Highest Court the finger on redrawing a House District to give Blacks more political power….
People of color, Black, Brown and Yellow are STILL being discriminated against in politics, power and history…..
This is NOT Making America Great Again….
On July 21, GOP presidential candidate Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) defended his state’s new history standards, which suggest slavery had benefits for some enslaved people. Hours earlier, Vice President Harris had traveled to Jacksonville, Fla., to condemn those standards as “propaganda.” Four days later, President Biden proclaimed a national monument for Emmett Till, a Black teen brutally murdered in 1955, using the occasion to condemn “darkness and denialism” from those seeking to “bury history.”
Other Republican campaigns, including that of former president Donald Trump, have since entered the fray, attacking DeSantis while espousing many of the same ideals he has pushed about how history should be framed on issues of race….
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The conflict has intensified in recent years as America’s historical record on race has increasingly become a battleground for partisan squabbling. It has cost educators their jobs and forced others to self-censor, sent the textbook publishing industry into meltdown and reshaped how students learn about race and racism in classrooms nationwide. As the tensions have spilled from local school board meetings to state legislatures to the White House and now the campaign trail, history has become a defining topic for contenders angling for the presidency….