Ethi uMbusi Ron DeSantis ukubeke kwacaca ukuthi “Abantu baseMelika baseMelika abamukelekile eSifundazweni SaseFlorida,” iNational Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), ikhiphe iseluleko sokuhamba ngempelasonto, ixwayisa ngokuhambela esifundazweni saseFlorida.
"IFlorida inobutha obala kubantu base-Afrika baseMelika, abantu bemibala kanye nabantu be-LGBTQ+," kusho iseluleko.
“Ngaphambi kokuvakashela Florida, ngicela uqonde ukuthi izwe laseFlorida libukela phansi futhi liyibeke eceleni iminikelo, kanye nezinselele abantu base-Afrika baseMelika kanye neminye imiphakathi yemibala ebhekene nazo.”
Isola iFlorida ngokuthi "inemibhikisho esemthethweni, ikhawule ikhono lothisha lokufundisa umlando wase-Afrika-waseMelika, futhi ibambe iqhaza empini esobala yokulwa nokuhlukahluka nokufakwa," I-NAACP ikugxekile lokho eyakubeka ngokuthi “imizamo ebonakala ifuna ukuthulisa amazwi ase-Afrika aseMelika.”
Ngaphezu kokubhekana “nenzondo esobala,” iseluleko sezokuvakasha sixwayisa labo abangena eFlorida ukuthi izingane zabo zizophucwa “umlando onembile wase-Afrika-waseMelika, ohlanganisa umlando wokugqilazwa, ukuhlukaniswa, ukungabi nabulungisa ngokobuhlanga kanye nokucwasa okuhleliwe,” ngenxa "yemizamo eqinile yoMbusi uDeSantis yokusula umlando wabaNsundu kanye nokukhawulela ukuhlukahluka, ukulingana nezinhlelo zokufakwa ezikoleni zaseFlorida."
UMongameli kanye ne-CEO yeNational Association for the Advancement of Colored People, u-Derrick Johnson, usole u-DeSantis ngokuphikisana nemibono yentando yeningi yaseMelika ngokususa isifundo se-Advanced Placement African American Studies ohlelweni lwezifundo zesikole sikahulumeni futhi wanxusa abantu abamnyama baseMelika kanye “nabambisene nabo. ” “ukusukuma ulwe” ngokumelene nezinqubomgomo zombusi esimemezelweni sabezindaba esihambisana nokweluleka.
Umbusi waseFlorida uphikisene ngokuthi ikilasi Lokubekwa Okuthuthukile okukhulunywa ngalo beligcwele ukungalungi kwamaqiniso, okufana “nokufundiseka” esikhundleni semfundo. Ukhuthaze Ibhodi Lekolishi, inkampani esekela uhlelo lwe-AP, ukuthi lithumele ikharikhulamu ebuyekeziwe “enokuqukethwe okusemthethweni, okunembe ngokomlando.” Umbusi uye waphikisa izinsolo zokucwasa ngokwebala ngokuveza ukuthi umthetho waseFlorida usuvele udinga ukufundiswa “kwawo wonke umlando waseMelika, okuhlanganisa ubugqila, amalungelo omphakathi, [kanye] nokuhlukaniswa.”
Umthetho waseFlorida othi Stop WOKE, owaphasiswa ngonyaka odlule, wenqabela izikole ekufundiseni ukuthi noma ubani unobandlululo ngokwemvelo noma unecala ngenxa yebala lesikhumba sakhe, futhi uDeSantis unxuse iBhodi Lezemfundo lezwe ukuthi livimbele ukufundiswa kwe-Critical Race Theory.
Kusukela ngokubalwa kwabantu kuka-2020, iFlorida yayimnyama ngo-12.4%, i-18.7% yaseHispanic, kanye ne-61.6% emhlophe.
