Ron DeSantis is a revivalist.

The Republicans have for a very long time sought to end any government program that benefited minorities.

I remember when President Obama was elected that was the Republican talking point, in that, the African Americans were equal with that election. In fact, that was simply another chapter. Each movement to equality of civil rights has garnered more and more freedom, quality of life and the end of racism. But, the struggle is hardly over.

While the election of President Barak Hussein Obama was a major page turner, it was not the end of the story to equality. It was a focus. I believe it was the Late Senator Harry Reid that stated as a candidate Obama was a light skinned black and he might actually have a chance to win. That was a racist statement by a man who was the leader of the Democratic Senators for some time. President  Obama was the new reality. He was a focus. He had effect on the African American community and it was a good movement forward, but, it wasn't complete.

It seems ludicrous to me to write about DeSantis in the same entry as Obama, but, Ron DeSantis is the anti-Obama. How many times was the Affordable Care attacked as it was called Obamacare. The estrangement of Obamacare from the Affordable Care Act occurred. Some Americans would never purchase Obamacare, but, thought the Affordable Care Act was a good idea. The Republicans harassed Americans into believing those laws were different, when in fact it was the same law.

Ron DeSantis, no different than the Republican Right Wing is a throw back to other times in the USA when there were laws that did horrible things like making sure there was no anti-Klan movements or legislation. At the time when these horrible laws existed the Klan was burning crosses and hanging black people. But, they were a voting constituency.

The Republican Party is an anti-American party with the election and leadership of Trump. There has never been a more dangerous president for his anti-American sentiment that still exists today.

But, as to the DeSantis' throw back to the "good ole days" when racism felt like a well fitting ready for church service suit, he is just a fading enigma that is racism. He will have his day in the sun, but, inevitably he will disappear into the horizon of wrongful men that sought glory as an anti-American mired in judgement, ridicule and hate.

February 14, 2023
By Iram X. Kendi

As African American studies faces resistance, (click here) a conversation about the continued relevance of Carter G. Woodson’s 1933 book, The Mis-education of the Negro

In 1925, teachers at the Negro Manual and Training High School of Muskogee, Oklahoma, made what they thought was an appropriate choice of textbook: The Negro in Our History, by the Harvard-trained Black historian Carter G. Woodson. Woodson had written this "history of the United States as it has been influenced by the presence of the Negro" to supply the "need of schools long since desiring such a work," as he wrote in the book's preface. Upon learning of this textbook choice, White segregationists on the school board sprang immediately into action. They decreed that no book could be “instilled in the schools that is either klan or antiklan,” insinuating that Woodson’s Black history textbook was “antiklan."

The school board banned the book. It confiscated all copies. It punished the teachers. It forced the resignation of the school’s principal. “It’s striking how similar that feels and sounds to the contemporary moment,” the Harvard education historian Jarvis R. Givens told me.

A century ago, white segregationists were banning anti-racist books and “Negro studies” as well as punishing and threatening anti-racist educators all over Jim Crow America.

In response to these incidents, Woodson embarked on a new initiative to support educators and promote Negro history. In 1926, he founded Negro History Week, which officially became Black History Month 50 years later. And Woodson’s most important scholarly contribution, his 1933 book, The Mis-education of the Negro, highlighted the importance of teaching Black history....