DeSantis stunt is Reverse Freedom Rides
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As the Republican governors of Texas, Arizona and Florida send busloads and planeloads of migrants to liberal bastions in the north to protest President Joe Biden's immigration policies, some have struck a comparison with a dark and mostly forgotten chapter of American history: the Reverse Freedom Rides of 1962.
Since April, governors Greg Abbott of Texas, Doug Ducey of Arizona and Ron DeSantis of Florida have collectively ordered thousands of migrants to be dropped in Democratic-led areas like Washington D.C., New York, Chicago and Martha's Vineyard.
The Boston-based John F. Kennedy Presidential Library has drawn a parallel between the busing migrant crisis and DeSantis' program to fly planeloads of migrants outside of state lines to the Reverse Freedom Rides of 1962, when white southern segregationists tricked hundreds of Black Americans into moving north, promising them they would find jobs and housing in liberal states.
"To embarrass Northern liberals and humiliate Black people, southern White Citizens Councils started their so-called 'Reverse Freedom Rides,' giving Black people one-way tickets to northern cities with false promises of jobs, housing, and better lives," the library of the 35th U.S. president tweeted on Thursday.
https://www.newsweek.com/migrant-buses-compared-1962-reverse-freedom-rides-black-families-1743575?amp=1
They intentionally selected single bjsck mothers on welfare, and black men recently released from prison.
They are Klan.
They aren't using dog whistles anymore.
Heard on NPR the response to the reverse freedom rides 60 years ago was extensive boycatts of the segregationist states, which resulted in an end to this barbaric practice, and a change in rhetoric.
I think a similar response today is more than called for.
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