DeSantis rocked by Black Republican revolt over slavery comments

[babylonsister]

FTR, I live in Florida and I approve of none of DeSantis' proclamations. He's such a nasty piece of work.

DeSantis rocked by Black Republican revolt over slavery comments
By Brakkton Booker
07/28/2023 02:40 PM EDT


The bitter fight between Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and Rep. Byron Donalds over a line about slavery in the state’s revised African American history standards is infuriating several prominent Black conservatives.

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At issue are the new education standards for how Black history is taught in Florida schools that DeSantis signed into law last year. The revised guidelines, released this month, require educators to instruct middle schoolers that “slaves developed skills which, in some instances, could be applied for their personal benefit.”

Donalds, who largely praised the guidelines as “good, robust and accurate,” took issue with the idea of “personal benefit” and said that part is “wrong and needs to be adjusted.” Donalds supported DeSantis for governor but has backed Trump in the presidential primary.

That prompted an onslaught from the DeSantis camp. Christina Pushaw, the director of rapid response for the DeSantis presidential campaign, mused, “Did Kamala Harris write this tweet?” referencing the vice president’s recent trip to Florida, in which she denounced the new standards.

DeSantis dug in, disparaging his fellow Republican with one of the worst insults one can lob: comparing him to a Democrat. “Are you going to side with Kamala Harris and liberal media outlets or are you going to side with the state of Florida?”

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https://www.politico.com/news/2023/07/28/disgusting-black-republicans-livid-over-desantis-slavery-attack-00108776

[patphil]

1. That'll go a long way toward driving the last remaining black people out of the Republican Party.

[marble falls]

2. Pudding Fingers has the same problem TFG had: he knows only a few PoC and he thinks those few ...

... speak for all PoC. As a result when he makes assumptions, he get's gets 'rocked'.

[Cha]

3. Boo Hoo.. they can Go To the

HELL they're Causing Florida.

VP Kamala is Correct.. Donalds and deSadist are Dead Wrong.

[EnergizedLib]

4. I'm happy Black Republicans have some principles

But they didn’t care until it affected them.

[Arazi]

5. I don't think that asshole cares what any black people think to be honest

Actually, let me correct that, I don’t think he cares what anybody thinks.

[stopdiggin]

7. kinda hard to win a political race

in that mode. I mean, usually you are trying to persuade people to vote for you ...

[paleotn]

6. There are Black Republicans.

I still can't reconcile that.

DeSantis and his base of assholes have made Floriduh a pariah and a shit hole. I wouldn't enter the state if my life depended on it.

[jcgoldie]

8. So these black republicans...

Have no problem with a total erosion of civil rights and opposing any policy that promotes racial equality… but saying slavery was good for black people is a bridge too far… good to know.

[Wednesdays]

9. As Letterman said to Dubya,

"You're winning delegates left and right, governor!"

[BlueWaveNeverEnd]

10. if repubs pick DeSantis, they will get 1% of the Black vote

[ecstatic]

12. Right. The refugs who have squeaked out a victory had at least

10 percent, but even then they still lost the popular vote. I'm not sure how desenseless thinks he's going to get enough votes when he's alienating so many people and businesses.

[ecstatic]

11. If nothing else, it should be a wake up call for them

Sort of a first they came for them, now they're coming for me epiphany. Grimy d is trying to normalize slavery while at the same time erasing history. That mother fucker knows what he's doing. He understands that when you forget about history that the same deplorable shit can happen all over again. Instead of changing course, he's quadrupling down. This is what I've been talking about for years--when d and other assholes complain about woke, they are specifically referring to black people.

Tim Scott and others need to think twice about what they are ushering into this country because this "dismantling of the administrative state" bullshit that rethugs are drooling about would strip us off all of our rights. Every single right. I'm surprised they don't see that. It's really sad and heartbreaking because so many people died fighting for our rights.

[lindysalsagal]

13. CNN just had a fool half-splaining this effery.

Old gqp tactic: take the sting out of an ugly statement by weaseling out one irrelevant aspect of it that is technically true, while completely ignoring the real purpose: minimizing the impact of white supremacy talk by arguing semantics.