Florida is a dangerous place for people of color to live or visit, a civil rights group announced this week with a travel advisory and media tour that leaned on some misleading characterizations.
The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People’s formal travel advisory this week labeled Florida as unsafe due to the education and social policies of Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis.NAACP President & CEO Derrick Johnson accused DeSantis’s government of “failing to teach an accurate representation of the horrors and inequalities that Black Americans have faced and continue to face” in a statement announcing the advisory.
But Florida is, overall, a safe and prosperous place for black Americans based on a wide range of metrics. While Florida’s equality rating with US News and World Report comes in at 22nd in the nation, it still gets higher marks on a range of measures of equality than Connecticut, Illinois, and even California.Florida’s public school system ranks among the top five in the country and gets higher marks for racial equality in education than does California, New York, or Maryland – the latter state being the home of the NAACP’s headquarters.
In January, his state government moved to stop the College Board from making available a pilot version of the Advanced Placement African American Studies course the nonprofit is developing for nationwide distribution next fall. However, by that point, the College Board was facing a massive backlash from liberal groups accusing it of caving to DeSantis; the organization went on to backtrack once again, announcing that it would consider adding back in the critical race theory and gender-related materials.
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