DeSantis is on the news everywhere. Well let’s say everywhere but NBC and MSNCBC. Why would I say that? Well, I guess DeSantis is boycotting the two. DeSantis is protesting  because of a question that Andrea Mitchell asked Vice President Harris about his attack on Black Education. The question was “What does Governor DeSantis not know about Black History and the Black experience when he says that slavery and the aftermath of slavery not be taught to Florida schoolchildren”. DeSantis’s statement through his press secretary was “There will be no consideration of anything related to NBC Universal or its affiliates until and at least Andrea Mitchell corrects the blatant lie she made about the Governor”. The press secretary went on to say that NBC must “display a consistent track record of truthful reporting before he agrees to future appearances”. I look at the question and I wonder what lie? It was a question that deserved an answer.

Why are not all the other News networks asking the same question? I understand why Fox News wouldn’t but the rest of the major News Networks are just cowards to be cowering to DeSantis. It was been DeSantis that started this fight against Black History. Just to set the record straight all of Black History is part of Critical Race Theory and there lies the problem, because, in most theory it has many truths. He put a bull’s eye on the backs of our education system and our teachers if they dare teach the truth. It was the Republicans pandering to the White Supremists that started this. It was people like Ted Cruz screaming on stage that they are trying to make you hate your own race? The only thing that has been missing is the white sheets. This is all part of DeSantis’s anti-woke agenda. What  the anti woke agenda in reality is the suppression of the truth. The DeSantis administration objects to the topics including Black queer studies, Intersectionality, the Reparations Movement, the Black Lives Matter movement, Back Feminist Literary thought and the Black Struggle in the 21^st century. Now I have to admit that some of those topics are not something that I would be running to enroll in, but, I would think that is you are going to be representing  and working in a multi cultural environment the more diverse studies that you have the better off the student and the education process is. To say that it has no educational value is just coming from a person that does not care about education. I just feel that DeSantis is more into grooming than he is truly wanting our children educated.

 I didn’t know what Intersectionality meant so I did an internet search for it. According to Wikipedia it is an analytical framework for the understanding how the aspects of a person’s social and political identities combine to create different modes of discrimination and privilege. Intersectionality identifies multiple factors of advantage and disadvantage . It states examples of these factors include gender, caste, sex, race, ethnicity, class, sexuality, religion, disability, weight and physical appearance. It states that these intersecting and overlapping social identities may be both empowering and oppressing. Now I would say that that is a real mouthful. But that is something that I would expect a person to study in college.  This study has been around for about 30 years. What is the problem with this study?  It started out as the unique experience of black women and oppression. Reading about it was an eye opener for me. Some of the stuff I had read before but some I hadn’t. All DeSantis would have to see is the study of privilege and oppression and that would be it for him. To say that there is no educational value in such education is like saying that there is no educational value in calculus because most of us will never use it. Subjects that stimulate the mind and make us go outside the box have extreme educational value and is what I thought that college was for.

I looked at the subject Queer Black Studies and at first thought I could live without that. On second thought, my lack of knowledge of the Queer anything would probably be an eye opener for me. Isn’t that what education suppose to do? I have absolutely no idea about the problems that many Gay people face let alone what a Black Gay person would face. First of all to be demonized because you are Black is bad enough but to be demonized because you are Gay also has to be twice as bad. What is wrong about that experience being taught in our colleges. Isn’t  it through education that we can start to heal the world of its hate? Is it through education that we learn how diverse the world really it? There lies the problem for DeSantis, diversity. That is how this whole thing got started. Our Governor decided that he didn’t want diversity training going on in his State. I think in DeSantis’s world he wants everyone to be White. He may try to tell you that he doesn’t see any color because he is color blind but when the only color you see is White that is not being colorblind. If a person want to solve many of our social problems in America you can’t be claiming that you are colorblind. That is only ignoring the facts because you don’t like them. The world is a very diverse place and you just can’t just legislate that away. We make up probably only five percent of the world’s population. That mean that there are many cultures from not only around our own country but around the world that we have to be aware of if we are to succeed economically. That has to be taught in our schools if we are preparing them for the real world and that is what our education system is suppose to be doing, preparing people for the real world.

I can understand why a person like DeSantis who caters to rich White people would not care about the Black Lives Matters Movement. Let’s face it. Do you really think that Black lives matter to a person like DeSantis? If you do, you are really just lying to yourself in my opinion. The fact that we would have a course about Black Lives or a course about the Black Struggle in the 21^st Century I would think would really strike a nerve with a person like DeSantis. I had read a quote that he said that while he was a teacher where he stated that the Civil War was not fought about slavery. It was fought about differing economic systems. I have heard that argument before and it doesn’t hold water. Well let’s be totally honest about that one. One economic system was based around no slavery and that other economic system was built around slavery. Did the man get his history from actual books or did he just watch “Gone with the Wind” on TNT. Unarmed Black people are being killed by the authorities. That is a fact. We all watch the execution of George Floyd. To deny that it is a problem is just denying the truth. DeSantis is a great example of the Black Struggle in the 21^st Century. We just had a terrible hurricane hit the area of Florida that I live in. We were pretty much in the bull’s eye of the storm. One area that got hit very hard was the area of Harlem Heights in Ft. Myers. I drove through there as I returned to see how much damage I had. I witnessed people, mostly minorities, walking in waist deep water trying to save what they could. I saw the look of pain and uncertainty on the faces of many. We all had our problems but that area was devastated because it was in a low lying area. Their local food pantry was even flooded. Help did pour in from Miami but do you know where our Governor was? He was down in Naples passing out food in a place not hit nearly as bad. He was at Matlacha trying to look like he was in control because it was a good photo op. I believe he was in it for the campaign donations and nothing more. He sure didn’t seem to care about our minorities that were suffering. If any person should take a course in the Black Struggle in the 21^st Century I really think it should be DeSantis.

Our educational system is not something that we should be suppressing. You just can’t legislate this stuff away. If you have been following my writing you will see that I always talk about today’s digital age. Everything is out there, and, trying to suppress it, is next to impossible. I was watching an E-Harmony commercial on TV that had two males on a scooter looking like they were enjoying each other’s company. You just can’t hide what is out there from our children. They see it every day. In today’s digital world it is really hard to hide anything.  Are we going to outlaw E Harmony commercials because some are offended? Are we going to try and suppress all the information that is out there on the internet? The rest of the world is beginning to know American History better than we do. In today’s digital world we can’t hide our sins by saying we just won’t teach them. That just makes us look ignorant. Politician’s like DeSantis need to get out of the education suppression business and start working to ensure that we have a place in the World in the 22^nd century.