NAACP and other civil-rights groups issue Florida travel advisories - MarketWatch
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This is fear mongering at its finest............what a bunch of hooey.
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'The actions taken by Gov. DeSantis have created a shadow of fear within communities across the state,' says regional executive with Latino rights organization LULAC
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ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — The NAACP over the weekend issued a travel advisory for Florida, joining two other civil rights groups in warning potential tourists that recent laws and policies championed by Gov. Ron DeSantis and Florida lawmakers are "openly hostile toward African Americans, people of color and LGBTQ+ individuals."
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The NAACP, long an advocate for Black Americans, joined the League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC), a Latino civil-rights organization, and Equality Florida, a gay-rights advocacy group, in issuing travel advisories for the Sunshine State, where tourism is one of the state's largest job sectors.
The warning approved Saturday by the NAACP's board of directors tells tourists that, before traveling to Florida, they should understand the state of Florida "devalues and marginalizes the contributions of, and the challenges faced by African Americans and other communities of color."
An email was sent Sunday morning to DeSantis's office seeking comment. DeSantis is expected to announce a run for the GOP presidential nomination this week.
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Florida is one of the most popular states in the U.S. for tourists, and tourism is one of its biggest industries. More than 137.5 million tourists visited Florida last year, marking a return to pre-pandemic levels, according to Visit Florida, the state's tourism promotion agency. Tourism supports 1.6 million full-time and part-time jobs, and visitors spent $98.8 billion in Florida in 2019, the last year figures are available.
The NAACP's decision comes after the DeSantis's administration in January rejected the College Board's Advanced Placement African American Studies course. DeSantis and Republican lawmakers also have pressed forward with measures that ban state colleges from having programs on diversity, equity and inclusion, as well as critical race theory, and also passed the Stop WOKE Act that restricts certain race-based conversations and analysis in schools and businesses.
In its warning for Hispanic travelers considering a visit to Florida, LULAC cited a new law that prohibits local governments from providing money to organizations that issue identification cards to people illegally in the country and invalidates out-of-state driver's licenses held by undocumented immigrants, among other things.
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The law also requires hospitals that accept Medicaid to include a citizenship question on intake forms, which critics have said is intended to dissuade immigrants living in the U.S. illegally from seeking medical care.
"The actions taken by Gov. DeSantis have created a shadow of fear within communities across the state," said Lydia Medrano, a LULAC vice president for the Southeast region.
Recent efforts to limit discussion on LGBTQ topics in schools, the removal of books with gay characters from school libraries, a recent ban on gender-affirming care for minors, new restrictions on abortion access and a law allowing Floridians to carry concealed guns without a permit contributed to Equality Florida's warning.
"Taken in their totality, Florida's slate of laws and policies targeting basic freedoms and rights pose a serious risk to the health and safety of those traveling to the state," Equality Florida's advisory said.
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That's it! Keep driving that wedge! It's what you do best. Gotta keep the bullshit fear, bullshit victimhood, and bullshit phobia narrative alive.
Come on, Jim. I know we don't agree on much - and I would agree these "travel advisories" are pretty much political bullshit - but... The whole DeSantis show is nothing more than a bullshit fear, victimhood phobia narrative. Is it any wonder when the opposite side uses the same tactics?
The NAACP are less relevant than the SLPC. Weird that people want to blame DeSantis, you’re more likely to get your as beat a Disney than anywhere else.
Will this mean there will be less chance of that?
Let me get this straight: The NAACP over the weekend issued a travel advisory for Florida, but they are ok with travel to places like Chicago, LA and Mexico?
So I won't be seeing any NAACP supporters the next time I go to Florida.
Who should I thank?
Yep. And strict gun law Chicago saw 24 shootings this past weekend, which is an improvement from 26 from the prior weekend.
Except for the NAACP leaders who either live in FL or vacationed there this year with their families.
So it's a bad thing to enforce the law?
Only laws That they don’t like, like federal drug laws or immigration laws, or abusing children.
Alvin Bragg taught us that.
Does this mean that Florida is safe from Black Bike Week?
LMAO!
When I was in Florida last, I had a conversation with a Florida couple that used to live near me. They were strangers to me, and they said loved relocation to the Jacksonville area. However, even they said that once you go further south all bets are off and people are fucking nuts.
Really?
Well I go as far south as Delray Beach and I haven't found any nuts. I never see homeless people either.
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How odd of them to say this. I have family and friends who've lived in south FL for over 30 years, and they've never said anything about this. Also, one of my sons and his friends lived and worked in the West Palm/Delray/Boca/Ft. Lauderdale region for over a decade - some still do - and never complained about "fucking nuts" people. Perhaps your friends were pulling your leg.
Should be a Babylon Bee story.
As if this was really authored by Ron DeSantis...
Thanks. I didn't realize that the Fetch Seed didn't pick up the real writer.
If/when you open the seeded article and read it, you'll see that it was published by MarketWatch but written by the AP. Ron DeSantis had no involvement in publishing or writing it.
r--i---g----h-----t.
These types of "warnings" are nothing more than political fearmongering.
These people bothering to issue such crap should be roundly ignored as incompetent, lying fools.
At one time, the NAACP, ACLU, and SPLC served a respected purpose. But, by moving far left to perpetuate imaginary systemic racism, they lost the respect of millions of both white and non-white Americans.
All while, unfortunately, becoming, bastions of liberalism.
Meh. That implies that anyone would actually be "afraid".
It's all just looney lefty children having a tantrum.
What a hypocrite piece of shit,
She said as she returned from a spring break vacation in the sunshine state.
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