Calling critical race theory “crap,” Republican Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis said Wednesday he’ll push for legislation to ban teaching the concept in schools and to allow private corporate employees to sue their employers if they receive critical race theory training.
In a strongly worded speech at a campaign-style event, DeSantis told a packed room of supporters in Wildwood that he won’t allow backers of critical race theory to erase U.S. history. He was interrupted several times by loud applause and cheers.
“Nobody wants this crap, OK? This is an elite driven phenomenon being driven by bureaucratic elites, elites in universities and elites in corporate America and they’re trying to shove it down the throats of the American people. You’re not doing that in the state of Florida,” DeSantis said.
DeSantis, who is up for re-election next year and is considered a potential 2024 presidential candidate, is continuing a message brought into the mainstream last year by then President Donald Trump.
Critical race theory is a way of thinking about America’s history through the lens of racism. It was developed during the 1970s and 1980s in response to what scholars viewed as a lack of racial progress following the civil rights legislation of the 1960s. It centers on the idea that racism is systemic in the nation’s institutions and that they function to maintain the dominance of white people in society.
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.
DeSantis is calling his proposal the Stop WOKE (Wrongs to Our Kids and Employees) Act.
“What you see now with the rise of this woke ideology is an attempt to really delegitimize our history and to delegitimize our institutions and I view the wokeness as a form of cultural Marxism,” DeSantis said. “They really want to tear at the fabric of our society.”
Democratic Sen. Shevrin Jones said the DeSantis is creating a problem where none exists to score political points with his base, and that critical race theory hasn’t been taught in Florida schools. He also points out that woke is a term that African Americans have used for years to describe being aware of racist polices.
“The fact that the governor wants to travel the state and use this as his new tour message is disingenuous to Black people,” said Jones, who is Black.
At the direction of DeSantis, the state board of education banned critical race theory in schools. The legislation would put that ban into state law and allow parents to sue school districts that teach it.
“No taxpayer dollars should be used to teach our kids to hate our country and to hate each other,” DeSantis said.
Similarly, private employees under the legislation that’s being prepared could sue their employers if they are subject to a “hostile work environment” due to critical race theory training.
But Jones said that the proposal is an effort to ignore racism in the country’s past and present.
“They unfortunate part of all of this is that they are trying to whitewash history while making a statement that children are being taught to hate their skin color … I call B.S. on that,” Jones said. “I would never go to my Jewish brothers and sisters and tell them the Holocaust never happened, I would never go the indigenous community to say their land being taken away from them never happened, I would never go try to distort someone’s history all for a political field goal.”
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Critical race theory is a social phenomenon created by people overeducated well beyond their ability to process the incoming information for transition into cogent results and solved problems. This is what you get when you take people designed to be garbage men, waiters and street sweepers and waste government taxpayer money to overeducate them to think their Master’s Degrees make them master of the American Universe, where their bachelor’s degrees entitles them to produce children without marriage licenses, creating a society of illegitimacy reducing the American meritocracy that lead to solved problems into a Leftist Idiocracy where nothing ever works again. The best thing you can do today to insure your child grows up to be successful in life is to deny them a University education that teaches them that the only thing critical in life is the color of your skin, not the content of the information taught or the ability to process it to a successful conclusion, where life becomes who can play and win the blame game, not put up real points on the scoreboard to move to the next level of American three dimensional chess where their version only has pawns designed for sacrifice, no Bishops to feed your soul or spirit, no castles with walls to keep out illegal invaders, only Black Knights that pillage your shopping malls, Queens of denial, and Kings and emperors who wear no clothes, and the ability to survive them to live even one more day becomes the most critical Focus of all.
The Governor of Florida keeps proving over and over that he is way more up to the task, than most other Governors in the U.S. It would be difficult to find another GOP candidate for President of the United States, who is more capable & qualified than this amazing man, who always has the strength of character to do the right thing & not back down!
If you want to see true leadership that is as polar opposite from Joe Biden as you can possibly get – then DeSantis is your man!!
I would LOVE HIM to run for potus in 2024, but wonder, COULD HE GET A good replacement as governor?
Trump should’ve picked DeSantis as VP instead of the worthless Mike Pence. DeSantis would’ve kept those lying politicians off him while he Made America Great Again. Then DeSantis would’ve been in prime position for President. Donald, Donald, Donald / shoulda, woulda, coulda…..
Did we even HEAR Destantis’ name mentioned anywhere, when trump was running, OR ONLY Since he became gov of florida?? I certainly can’t remember.. SO maybe that’s WHY Trump didn’t.
Only a few folks even KNEW who he was.
This man is a future president !!
Wow, gonads connected to a GOP politician. This is a rare bird, and we should nurture and take care of this species for the sake of future Americans.
Finally a governor who grew a pair and stood up to the woke racist keft. Thank you
In the 1970’s, another thing that was crammed down our throats due to what the government called a “lack of racial progress” was BUSSING. In 1973, my cousins lived in Cleveland. They were informed that they would have to attend a different high school across town. A couple of busses of white kids showed up at a black high school to a big crowd of black kids jeering them. Every day they would get kicked, punched, slapped, shoved, spit on, taunted, etc. This went on for a couple of weeks. Then one day, a group of blacks gave one of my cousins a beat-down. The cops did nothing, the school did nothing…. In fact, the attitude of the school could be summed up as “well you’re white so you deserve it”. After that, both my cousins refused to go to that school. My uncle withdrew them from school and moved everyone to a smaller town 20 miles away where this wasn’t a problem.
What the Schmucl// THEY ACTUALLY beat down kids, and the school NOT ONLY DID nothing, but brushed it off, AND THAT WAS in the 70’s??!
If the GOP fought hard like DeSantis and Trump do, we’d have the democrats completely licked.
CRT is all about hate and nothing else and the Democratic Party knows it’s true.