Biden and DeSantis have spoken regularly this week about the storm, which pummeled Florida's Big Bend region with Category 3 winds of nearly 125 miles per hour. Politics had not crept into their conversations, the president said.

President Joe Biden traveled to Florida on Saturday to survey the destruction from Hurricane Idalia and comfort victims of the storm, but he did not meet Governor Ron DeSantis, a potential presidential rival, who opted not to come.

Biden, who praised DeSantis during the visit, said he was not disappointed by the governor’s absence and said DeSantis had helped plan the trip.

DeSantis’ spokesperson said on Friday the governor had no plans to meet Biden, saying “the security preparations alone that would go in to setting up such a meeting would shut down ongoing recovery efforts.”

  • Billiam@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    It’s a post- graduate legal theory about the intersection of laws and race in America. Exactly what it is isn’t really relevant- even among legal minds in the US, it wasn’t a widely accepted or debated concept.

    However, three or four years ago, a racist shit bag named Christopher Rufo started lying about what it was to rile up the racists in the Republican party. He claimed CRT was designed to make white children feel guilty about America’s slave-owning past and that it teaches that Black children are owed status and money at the expense of white children. He also claimed this was being taught to children at all levels of American public education.

    Again it must be pointed out that he completely fabricated everything he said about CRT. Unfortunately, Republicans are generally as unintelligent as they are fearful, and a wave of anti “CRT” panic is sweeping through America. The net result is Republican governments are banning nearly any discussion about racial disparity in current or former US events all because they don’t want to admit that 1) YES RACISM IS BAD and 2) freeing a class of people you’ve kept enslaved for hundreds of years doesn’t magically make things okay or make that people equal to you.

    To be clear, white Americans shouldn’t feel guilty over America’s slave-owning past. I never owned any slaves, and neither has anyone I know. But we should be recognizing how a system of laws built on the literal backs of Black slaves would generationally prevent Black Americans from reaching parity with white Americans- you just can’t wave you hands and say “Poof! Slavery is gone!” and everything becomes sunshine and rainbows. It’s these kind of discussions that Rufo and the GOP are trying to prevent.