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March 18, 2022

Is Ron De Santis moving towards political "purification" in Florida?

We are in a new era where racism is overt. Racism IS the Republican platform. Out in the open. De Santis is so sure of himself, that his talk is getting more hostile, calling for people to fight Liberals. He's not just talking about our politics. He's talking about us. Why shouldn't we feel threatened?

Everywhere you look in Florida, there are areas where you can find Anglo preference in our communities. These are in your typical suburban areas, which we called white flight districts. It's just accepted that white homeowners fled to the suburbs to get out of the urban areas and away from minorities. I know it's like that all over the U.S., but as far as I can tell, no one really looks too hard to study how these communities remain Anglo-dominant. And, I don't see why it isn't discussed more often, because I find the methods so blatant as to be offensive.

The attempt at "purification" is not new. It's been going on for some time and happens in all quarters. For example, sometime in the nineties I called a Christian private school that was just opening to see what they had to offer. I never got past the recording. It said, "If you're calling for the tickets for the Oliver North event, blah, blah, blah." You see, I think that was an intentional totem to scare off undesirable prospects for their school. These kind of discouraging, passive aggressive communications are everywhere.

And now I see De Santis bringing it to a new level. The hostile language and evil intentions that he's pushing is intentionally meant to scare off those who are not aligned with conservative politics.

My county is kind of interesting. I have seen both a Hindu Temple and a Muslim school or church permitted. Pretty impressive structures. But it also includes a Classical Christian school which was initially promoted as a Christian community. Multi-family buildings are constructed around the school, and I'm not sure if it's even legal that they can promote only Christian tenants, but that's how it was understood back in the nineties when it was still in concept form. I wonder what would happen if the Hindu and the Muslim community attempted to do the same thing?

In addition, my city was forced to accept projects with multi-family dwellings, probably because of the land scandal that took place in the nineties where some pretty heinous things occurred to disrupt a developer's vested rights. Frankly, before things got out of hand, his compromise with the city was fair, IMO. But, it appears to me that it was far more lucrative for way too many of the backwater boys and gals to throw this city into chaos. Their interference would cost everyone.

Yet, the City has been very clever, making many of the multi-family dwellings they had to approve, age specific. Over 55, Senior Apartments. That means that the City doesn't have to worry about "unruly", young kids. The price tag for these apartments are not on the low end, which means that they are not affordable to many. And, homes that are not affordable generally means that few minorities will be moving in.

See, there's two methods that zoning laws were used to effectively screen out people that look like me. The fact that De Santis is now taking it a step further, by openly scaring off people that don't fit into his political beliefs is very concerning. I just don't understand how this doesn't end with a huge Civil Rights lawsuit. Florida could use a very loud, public court case to expose their discriminatory methods. Just don't expect the local lawyers to help in the effort. They're a big part of the problem.

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