Miami Black Affairs board vows to fight DeSantis. One member: 'Our governor is racist'

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https://finance.yahoo.com/news/miami-black-affairs-board-vows-215426818.html

On the first day of Black History Month, Gov. Ron DeSantis was the focus when Miami-Dade County’s Black Affairs Advisory Board convened in downtown Miami Wednesday.

“Our governor is racist,” said Stephen Hunter Johnson, a Miami lawyer and one of two dozen volunteer board members. “He is using Black America, and Black Floridians, as a political football.”

The board has no formal power in Miami-Dade government but serves as the county’s unofficial sounding board for issues and challenges facing Black residents. Items discussed at Wednesday’s meeting included the use of specialized police units in Miami-Dade similar to the one responsible for the death of Tyre Nichols in Memphis, and what position the board should take on bail reform.

With more than a dozen members attending, the February meeting offered a cross section of the mood of Black leaders from Miami-Dade to a pair of controversies sparked by DeSantis as he prepares for a possible presidential run in 2024.

The meeting began with a discussion on the DeSantis administration’s blocking of an optional African American Studies high-school course over inclusion of readings on the Black Lives Matter political movement and on the topic of “Black Queer Theory.”

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1. DeSantis is as openly racist as early George Wallace

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2. If they start a Go Fund me page, I hope they think to advertise on DU.

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3. Gov. DeSatan wants Black Floridans to just disappear.

As if they did not exist.

That makes DeSatan a racist.