During an appearance on Fox News’s “The Ingraham Angle,” Republican Florida Governor Ron Desantis said that America is not a systemically racist country, calling the idea “a bunch of horse manure.” “Give me a break. This country has had more opportunity for more people than any country in the history of the world,” DeSantis said. “And doesn’t matter where you trace your ancestry from. We’ve had people that have been able to succeed and all. And here’s the problem with things like critical race theory that they are peddling. They are basically saying all our institutions are bankrupt and they’re illegitimate. Okay, so how do you have a society if everything in your society is illegitimate?” said the governor. DeSantis noted that critical race theory is getting banned in Florida public schools. “It’s a very harmful ideology, and I would say really a race-based version of a Marxist-type ideology. So we …
DeSantis on Notion of Systemic Racism in America: A ‘Bunch of Horse Manure’
May 1, 2021
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