Florida’s governor couldn’t handle a Black man pressing him on the racist massacre in Jacksonville. And his tirade was quite revealing.
But that wasn’t the case when he was confronted with the accusations Thursday. I wonder why. Perhaps it was the sea of white faces there to laud him — rather than a bunch of disgruntled Black ones.The news conference, which was in Jacksonville, had been scheduled to highlight Florida’s protections against Covid-related mandates. But it took a pugilistic turn when DeSantis called on an attendee to ask a question.
Speaking calmly from the back of the room, the man told DeSantis that while he was a veteran and appreciated DeSantis’ military service, he felt DeSantis’ policies allowed “immature people” to access weapons that ultimately “caused the deaths of the people who were murdered a couple weeks ago.”Note that in challenging the governor this way, the questioner embodied wokeness —
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