Dwain Northey (Gen X)

So here we go again; Ron DeSantis is putting another nail in the coffin of real history of non-white people. His latest assault on the education system and his continued campaign against the ‘WOKE’ in his state is that in the fall curriculum it will be taught that slaves actually got an advantage by their enslavement because it provided them with a vocational skill.  Also, that in race mass killings in the late 19^th and early 20^th centuries that the black communities were committing violent acts that were as bad if not worse than the acts that caused the historical acts.

This retelling of history neglects to mention the hundreds of thousand if not millions of abducted Africans died before ever reaching the shores of North America and that their bodies were summarily discarded overboard without a second thought. Of course, the mere that slaves were experimented on to try and prove the white theory that black people were inferior would never be mentioned in the supposed ‘color blind’ curriculum. We wouldn’t want white children to feel uncomfortable with a truth about the atrocities that the white settlers of this nation committed.

This sad excuse for a person, much less a government official and one that is running for President, has stated his own crusade to ‘whitewash’ history as well as force anyone different from himself and his narrow beliefs back into the closet. He has already banned Drag Queen story time and removed books from libraries that even mention LGBTQ topics, I am sure anything that examines the Black experience is next. During the 2021-2022 school year, 566 books were banned across 21 school districts in Florida, according to data tracked by PEN America.

The ‘Moms for Liberty’ group are fanning out across the country going to public libraries trying to have certain titles removed from the shelves because they disagree with the content. Sadly, many of these concerned activists don’t even have children that they are professing to protect.

These narrow views and banning books that are found to be offensive or espouse view contrary to a political view are a very slippery slope to Fascism. Hitler banned books and subjugated an entire portion of the populist based on lies… Ron DeSantis (Death Sentence) is walking the same path, thankfully he has the charisma of day-old cheese spread. Unfortunately, Florida’s Governor isn’t the only wannbe dictator we have to deal with, Texas Governor Abbot is also a piece of work not to mention the leader of the Orange Mafia and his desire to re-attain the Presidency so that he can change to entire complexion of our government.

All this is really scary and I recommend that everyone find a banned book list and then go out and read every one of those titles that you can and have your children read them as well.

This now a call to action… and I hope that anyone who reads this takes it seriously.