If there’s anything we learned from this legislative session in Florida, it’s the undeniable reality that racism is alive, and unfortunately thriving, in the highest corridors of the Sunshine State. Time for the hashtag #SOSFlorida. Somebody come rescue what lawmakers left of our civil rights.
On Thursday, senators passed HB 7, the last of several bills fueled not by need but by political culture wars in a year when the governor is up for reelection.
NO FREEDOM IN ANTI-WOKE
The so-called “anti-woke” bill endorsed by the Senate was the last feather on the racist cap of white conservatives, so angst-ridden by the rise of African Americans in this country that they have to strip minorities and women of as many rights as they possibly can.