By Robert Beaty
Fort Lauderdale - Florida has a long and relatively unknown history of lynching, (click here) a historian and former Florida International University professor says.
Marvin Dunn, 74, made the remark as he discussed his latest book, The Beast in Florida – A History of Anti-Black Violence with a handful of attendees at the African-American Research Library and Cultural Center on Monday. “Florida has a terrible record of lynching,” Dunn said. “Florida has done its best to hide its history.”
Dunn spent 10 years traveling across parts of the central and northern areas of the state to cities where lynching occurred. He said there was more lynching in Florida after the Civil War than in other states such as Alabama and Mississippi because whites, who fought for the Confederates and lost, came to Florida where there was available land. At the time, the state had a large population of free blacks.
“Race violence became a big problem from the very beginning,” Dunn said. Dunn said the leading cause of the lynching or killing of blacks in the state was not sexual encounters with white women but a black man either involved in a murder or accused of killing a white person.
“Many of the victims were not hanged,” he said. “Most of them were shot to death.” His research took him to Marianna in the panhandle to the infamous town of Rosewood, which is west of Ocala near the gulf of Mexico, where an entire black community was wiped out. His research included interviewing witnesses of lynching and descendants of relatives who were victims or who perpetrated the lynching....
It is called "Revisionist History" and it is happening today in the USA. DeSantis needs to be prosecuted for fraud and Florida sued for enforced racism.
DeSantis is enforcing a mind set when it comes to race. He nor Florida's legislature has the right to determine the extent past events form today's society. The injustices of the past are known to Americans and attempt to mute that truth is an assault on Freedom of Speech.
The WOKE laws oppress expression of known grievances the African-American community has with the American society in general. DeSantis seeks to oppression free expression and enforce silence in the history of racist harm. The WOKE laws will impose punitive measures in order to enforce that oppression. It ends diversity training at all levels of society. The laws are harmful and hurtful.
The question is, does DeSantis represent racists' last breath or the beginning of enforced hatred. Where hatred takes hold there will be repercussions in society. One of the reasons diversity training exists is to remove misunderstandings and prejudice. Minority members of society could lose upward movement if hatred is allowed to exist.
I think this is an extension of the same racism noticed by the Supreme Court in relation to the Voting Act of 1964.
DeSantis doesn't like the feeling of being a member of a society that killed innocent minorities and/or oppressed their wealth and opportunity. Laws reversing racism and discrimination is proven not to be enough as segregation is still a reality. This law by DeSantis and his legislators is more of the divisive measures that continue to cause problems for American minorities. This type of legislation will only bring about justification that will allow violence against minorities.
...An individual, by virtue of his or her race, color, sex, or national origin, bears responsibility for, or should be discriminated against or receive adverse treatment because of, actions committed in the past by other members of the same race, color, sex, or national origin.
An individual, by virtue of his or her race, color, sex, or national origin, should be discriminated against or receive adverse treatment to achieve diversity, equity, or inclusion.
An individual should feel discomfort, guilt, anguish, or any other form of psychological distress on account of his or her race, color, sex, or national origin.
Such virtues as merit, excellence, hard work, fairness, neutrality, objectivity, and racial colorblindness are racist or sexist, or were created by members of a particular race, color, sex, or national origin to oppress members of another race, color, sex, or national origin.
By Andrew Atterbury
Tallahassee - Florida’s Department of Education (click here) is explicitly aiming to keep critical race theory and “social justice” out of social studies textbooks that the state will ultimately adopt for its new teaching standards.
The agency, in recent undated guidance, asked textbook publishers to avoid those topics on top of “culturally responsive teaching, social and emotional learning, and any other unsolicited theories” as the DeSantis administration and Republicans continue to scrutinize what students are learning in public schools, especially on the issues of race and gender identity. Florida already has received national attention after rejecting scores of math books for broaching topics state leaders deemed “impermissible.”...
Will this chart even be allowed within Florida's borders under Florida's WOKE laws (click here).
Florida's inequality
The top 1 percent of income earners (click here) have continued to amass a greater portion of all income earned even after the Great Recession, according to a recent report by the Economic Policy Institute (EPI). The analysis shows that although incomes took a hit during the recession, the top 1 percent of families have accrued a disproportionate amount of the income gains in each state and the nation. In Florida, the top 1 percent of families earned 39.5 times as much as the bottom 99 percent, as of 2015....
Nationally, the top 1 percent earned 26.3 times as much as the bottom 99 percent, on average. The average income of the top 1 percent was $1,316,985, compared to $50,107 for the bottom 99 percent.
In Florida, which ranked 46th in 2013, income inequality is much worse than the national average. The average income of the top 1 percent of families was $1,543,124, compared to an average of $39,094 for the bottom 99 percent. It was second only to New York, which has the worst income inequality across all states with a ration of 44.4 between the top and bottom average incomes....
In Florida, which ranked 46th in 2013, income inequality is much worse than the national average. The average income of the top 1 percent of families was $1,543,124, compared to an average of $39,094 for the bottom 99 percent. It was second only to New York, which has the worst income inequality across all states with a ration of 44.4 between the top and bottom average incomes....
