Makes sense.
Conservatives reject it, saying it is a world view derived from Marxism that divides society by defining people as oppressors and oppressed based on their race. They call it an attempt to rewrite American history and make white people believe they are inherently racist.
The bill reads in part, “An individual, by virtue of his or her race or sex, does not bear responsibility for actions committed in the past by other members of the same race or sex. An individual should not be made to feel discomfort, guilt, anguish, or any other form of psychological distress on account of his or her race.”
The bill is called “Individual Freedom." Republican Sen. Manny Diaz, its sponsor, said it is not about ignoring the “dark” parts of American history, but rather ensuring that people are not blamed for sins of the past.
“No individual is inherently racist, sexist or oppressive, whether consciously or unconsciously, solely by the virtue of his or her race or sex,” Diaz said. “No race is inherently superior to another race.”
Jones said DeSantis is playing to his conservative base by pushing the legislation, but wouldn't go so far as to say DeSantis himself is racist.
“The governor will continue to go across the country with his racist rhetoric on critical race theory ... It's a problem that doesn't exist,” Jones said. "I think the governor's policies that he continues to push are racist."
Asked for comment, the governor's spokeswoman reiterated comments DeSantis made at a news conference last month in which he referred to the late civil rights activist Martin Luther King Jr.
DeSantis said at the time, “You think about what MLK stood for, ‘He said he didn’t want people judged on the color of their skin but on the content of their character. You listen to some of these people nowadays, they don’t talk about that.’ ”
Oh, and we all know that Farrington is a champion for the right.
https://thecapitolist.com/the-wrap-ap-writes-dumb-desantis-story-gets-dumb-response/
It makes sense that DeSantis and other Republicans are trying to whitewash history to preserve their feelings.
White people held black people as slaves. They forced them to work, they berated them, they beat them, they raped them, they sold them like groceries, they treated them as less than human, they killed them as they pleased.
Then when some white people became afraid they were going to lose the black people they owned, they ceded and a war broke out.
Black people were "freed."
When that war was lost, black people were forced to use their own schools, restaurants, bathrooms, water fountains, etc. They were still subjected to slurs and often killed by coward white people in masks and robes, including Emmet Till.
Segregation ended as a matter of progression, and the civil rights era came. Many died fighting for rights for black people including MLK and Malcolm X.
Despite segregation being over black people were still separated via ghettos.
Progress has been slow. We have finally had a black president and VP.
And now people like DeSantis want to erase this history. It can't be erased. It's a stain, a bloody stain. It will be forever memorial, a testament to what was.
DeSantis can talk all he wants about not wanting there to be oppressers and oppressed, but when he is openly oppressing black people with this law and other voting laws and by closing voting centers, etc etc. he can shove it up his ass.
MLK did say everyone should be judged by the content of their character and not the color of their skin. He wasn't saying we need to erase history, but to remember it, to be stirred by it, to be humbled by it, so that we can treat each other better, so that we never return there again.
And DeSantis and others want to bend his words to assauge the egos of white people? Fuck that. We should be ashamed of what happened.
