Warns blacks and queers against going to Florida – news Urix – Foreign news and documentaries

– Florida is openly hostile to blacks and minorities, writes the civil rights organization NAACP in a press release. The background is that Republican Governor Ron DeSantis has approved several controversial bills recently. It has particularly aroused concern among one of the most influential civil rights organizations in the United States, namely the NAACP. – Before traveling to Florida, please understand that the State of Florida degrades and marginalizes the contributions and challenges faced by African Americans and other minorities, it continues. The bills from Ron DeSantis have caused quite a stir. Here from a demonstration in Miami, Florida on May 24, 2023. Photo: AFP Restricts toilet use and teaching Under DeSantis, Florida now bans, among other things, the teaching of critical race theory, an academic theory that recognizes that structural racism exists in the United States. DeSantis has previously said that this theory will teach students that “the country is rotten and that our institutions are illegitimate,” writes CNN, which has tried to get DeSantis to speak without success. He has also supported the bill that would ban the teaching of gender identity and sexual orientation to children under the age of 12. That is, 17–18 year olds. Teachers who defy the ban can be suspended or lose their license to work. Ron DeSantis will run for president for the Republicans in 2024. Photo: John Raoux / AP DeSantis has also approved a bill that would make it illegal for transgender people to use the restroom of the gender they have changed to. The US’s largest interest organization for queers, Equality Florida, has therefore also changed its travel advice for gay people who want to travel to Florida. – It is not a general recommendation not to travel or a call for a boycott, but the Travel Council outlines the devastating effects of the laws that are hostile to the LGBT community, they wrote in a press release. Will run for president DeSantis was one of Donald Trump’s close allies. Now he is challenging Trump to become the Republican presidential candidate. DeSantis has been called Donald Trump without all the scandals. – I am running for president of the United States to lead our great American comeback, DeSantis said during a Twitter broadcast on Monday.



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