Yes, Mr. DeSantis, I am woke

https://www.yahoo.com/news/guest-opinion-yes-mr-desantis-090048273.html

Guest opinion: Yes, Mr. DeSantis, I am woke

Thomas Minor
Sun, August 21, 2022 at 2:00 AM



Mr. DeSantis, I am a Black American, a thirty-year Marine veteran and someone still involved in defending this country against all enemies, foreign and domestic. I am woke Mr. DeSantis. The wokeness started in the 1950s after the white landowner of my tenant farming parents informed them that if they chose to vote, they could also find another place to live.

In 2021, you passed restrictive voting laws specifically designed to suppress minority votes after holding up Florida as a model for how to conduct an election.

The wokeness continued as I attended substandard segregated schools in the 50s and 60s with hand me down books from the schools attended by the white students in my county that had history texts with teachings about “The War of Northern Aggression” and touting “happy slaves and benevolent slave-holders”.

In 2022 you passed legislation that prohibited teaching fact-based history if it made white students “uncomfortable”.

I am woke after growing up watching local elected officials and police openly welcome and mingle with robed Klu Klux Klansmen as they marched through my town on Saturdays.

In 2021, you aggressively went after BLM gatherings but have said barely a word about the Nazis and Proud Boys who freely parade throughout the state, nor have you held a press conference to address how Florida would respond to the state leading the nation in the number of January 6 insurrectionists.

I am woke Mr. DeSantis and will remain so.

Following the actions of January 6 and watching your actions and the actions of other Trump acolytes in its wake, it behooves all citizens to be “woke”, unless they want to wake up in Nazi Germany reincarnated in a totally Dis-United States of America.

A retired colonel with the United States Marine Corps, Thomas Minor is a graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy, the U.S. Army War College and the U.S. Naval War College with a master's degree in national security and strategic studies. He spent 30 years as a Marine infantry officer with the last assignment as head of the Department of Naval Science and instructor of leadership and ethics at the Virginia Military Institute. He is currently employed by General Dynamics as a security contractor for the Department of Homeland Security and is a resident of Bonita Springs.


*And yes, Mr. Minor is black.* -- Suzianne

@suzianne said
https://www.yahoo.com/news/guest-opinion-yes-mr-desantis-090048273.html

Guest opinion: Yes, Mr. DeSantis, I am woke

Thomas Minor
Sun, August 21, 2022 at 2:00 AM



Mr. DeSantis, I am a Black American, a thirty-year Marine veteran and someone still involved in defending this country against all enemies, foreign and domestic. I am woke Mr. DeSantis. The woke ...[text shortened]... nd Security and is a resident of Bonita Springs.[/i]


*And yes, Mr. Minor is black.* -- Suzianne

@averagejoe1 said
Consider evolution and adaptation before you promote Woke. Here is your favorite news source, PBS, with a different take on it.
Woke is dead, do not get left in the dust.

https://www.npr.org/2018/12/30/680899262/opinion-its-time-to-put-woke-to-sleep

@suzianne said
"Woke" was dead 40 years after it was coined. And now enemies of the black man have commandeered it and put their own spin on it. Just like the non-existent "CRT". White people seem to always need something to be afraid of.

But it still remains perfectly good and reasonable for black people in this country to remain "woke" about who and what the white man is and what h ...[text shortened]... g about the real crimes in this country against PoC and women and LGBTQ.

Typical, and disgusting.

@mott-the-hoople said
the black man should thank God for slavery. Not that slavery was good, it was not, it was evil. BUT, that is what delivered you from that hell hole you came from, Slavery is still much alive there as it is in many parts of the world, Thank God you live in a place that abolished slavery...evil white men abolished slavery, its over, done with, quit your fuking whining. ...[text shortened]... keeps slavery alive and create division, democrats rely on this to keep you down with govt handouts.

@mott-the-hoople said
the black man should thank God for slavery. Not that slavery was good, it was not, it was evil. BUT, that is what delivered you from that hell hole you came from, Slavery is still much alive there as it is in many parts of the world, Thank God you live in a place that abolished slavery...evil white men abolished slavery, its over, done with, quit your fuking whining. ...[text shortened]... keeps slavery alive and create division, democrats rely on this to keep you down with govt handouts.

@suzianne said
So says the white man.

What an idiot.

@AverageJoe1
Desantis needs to crawl in a hole and frigging DIE, he is the ABSOLUTE worse governor of ANY state and would compete with Trump as the worse POTUS in US history.

BTW, you wouldn't recognize traction if it bit you in your ugly misshapen ass.

@sonhouse said
@AverageJoe1
Desantis needs to crawl in a hole and frigging DIE, he is the ABSOLUTE worse governor of ANY state and would compete with Trump as the worse POTUS in US history.

BTW, you wouldn't recognize traction if it bit you in your ugly misshapen ass.

@suzianne said
So says the white man.

What an idiot.

@mott-the-hoople said
the black man should thank God for slavery. Not that slavery was good, it was not, it was evil. BUT, that is what delivered you from that hell hole you came from, Slavery is still much alive there as it is in many parts of the world, Thank God you live in a place that abolished slavery...evil white men abolished slavery, its over, done with, quit your fuking whining. ...[text shortened]... keeps slavery alive and create division, democrats rely on this to keep you down with govt handouts.

@shavixmir said
Racist fukk-wit.

@shavixmir said
Racist fukk-wit.

@shavixmir said
Racist fukk-wit.

@JJ-Adams
Ah, that makes it SO much better. I guess that resolves the half lit embarrassment over the treatment of blacks here in the US.
It makes your consciousness SO much easier to take.