Posted on 05/01/2021 7:14:50 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
During an appearance on Fox News’s “The Ingraham Angle,” Republican Florida Governor Ron Desantis said that America is not a systemically racist country, calling the idea “a bunch of horse manure.”
“Give me a break. This country has had more opportunity for more people than any country in the history of the world,” DeSantis said.
“And doesn’t matter where you trace your ancestry from. We’ve had people that have been able to succeed and all. And here’s the problem with things like critical race theory that they are peddling. They are basically saying all our institutions are bankrupt and they’re illegitimate. Okay, so how do you have a society if everything in your society is illegitimate?” said the governor.
DeSantis noted that critical race theory is getting banned in Florida public schools.
“It’s a very harmful ideology, and I would say really a race-based version of a Marxist-type ideology. So we banned it here in our schools in here Florida. We are not going to put any tax dollars to critical race theory. We want to treat people as individuals, not as members of groups.”
“There’s no room in our classrooms for things like critical race theory. Teaching kids to hate their country and to hate each other is not worth one red cent of taxpayer money,” he said in March.
On April 27, two Republican congressmen, Reps. Doug Lamborn (R-Colo.) and Jeff Duncan (R-S.C.) wrote a letter (pdf) to Education Secretary Miguel Cardona saying that they have “deep concern” about a criterion prioritization recently proposed for a $5.3 million American History and Civics Education grant, which would give higher concern to courses that include the New York Times’s 1619 Project and the teachings of critical race theorist Ibram X. Kendi.
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There most definitely is systemic racism/sexism in the USA, and its name is "affirmative action."
DeSantis is insulting s**t! ;)
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i love our Gov!
The “progressives’” entire belief system can be summed up by a week of 1972 “All in the Family” reruns.
“Progressive.” Sure.
What we have here are old ‘60s and ‘70s “activists” in government positions propped up by old ‘60s and ‘70s “activists” in media boardrooms.
That’s exactly why he’s not letting this garbage be taught in our schools here. DeSantis is great!
He just keeps getting better. And he’s spot on: CRT was invented to divide the races so there would be a violent marxist revolution. That’s the purpose, and their goal.
The corporations were just waiting for all the older, religious, socially conservative people from the Greatest Generation to die off, while having the schools, media, and Hollywood brainwash the younger generations.
Now that the transformation is almost complete, and the world has gone digital, the corporations can now reinvent themselves as woke “good guys”, and all the Liberals who used to hate all things corporate, will fall into line as their biggest supporters, defenders, and consumers of their hi tech products.
So to get back to your point, all those 60’s activists, who are now in media and government board rooms, are just stooges for the corporate CEOs and bankers, just like all the alphabet agencies.
The great myth is that the Left is fundamentally anti-corporate and pro small business. The opposite is true, as long as the corporations are part and parcel of the State.
I’m in a different state, but I love your Gov, too. Like Trump, DeSantis is a fighter who doesn’t accept the left’s phony narratives.
“systemic” is a word that I would be happy to never hear/read again.
I want to take him from you and make him President.
This IS the ONLY damn man in America worth my vote for POTUS this man has balls of steel!!!
Actually the 60’s and 70’s activists are to old the be in those board rooms at this time, HOWEVER they were responsible for educating and the indoctrination of the kids who are in charge of every aspect of our society today!!
Agreed! There is plenty of systematic racism that is government enforced against white people.
“I want to take him from you and make him President.”
Over my dead FL palm tree....
Seriously, y’all need to figure out who replaces him. I hope you can find someone half as good.
“Seriously, y’all need to figure out who replaces him. I hope you can find someone half as good.”
Seriously, Donald J. Trump will be our next President in 2024. See my tagline.
Oh, definitely not. MANY of the big bosses in both business and government are in their 60s and 70s.
I’d be OK with that, too.
We have commies - they’re not progressives - attempting to take over the United States - the real insurrection...
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