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SHOW NOTES: The fastest path to the Republican nomination for President is white supremacy. In part, that's why Nikki Haley, who is an Indian American, and Tim Scott, an African American, will never win the nomination.
Nearly 8 years ago, Ta-Nehisi Coates wrote something that actually shocked me - where he called Donald Trump America's "First White President." Of course, America had 43 white presidents before Trump, but what Coates meant is that Trump was the first President to basically run on whiteness and the advancement of white people at the expense of everyone else.
Ron DeSantis is taking that same blueprint and running with it in Florida - first banning the honest teaching of Black history across the state and now defunding and removing all diversity offices at every state college and university - a policy he just announced yesterday.
It's not just outrageous, it's dangerous and deeply problematic. These policies are all about positioning himself to be, to paraphrase Coates, "The Next White President" for white people, by white people.
Let me unpack and explain it.
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Shaun King is one of the most followed and shared activists and journalists in the world. In addition to being the Founder and Editor in Chief of The North Star, he also leads the Grassroots Law Project and the Real Justice PAC. A historian by training, Shaun King is the New York Times bestselling author of Make Change: How to Fight Injustice, Dismantle Systemic Oppression, and Own Our Future. His upcoming book, a memoir called Lemons and Stones, is on sale now! Shaun’s daily news podcast, The Breakdown with Shaun King, has been heard and shared hundreds of millions of times in almost every country in the world and is available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and everywhere podcasts are heard. Shaun has been with his brilliant wife, Rai, for nearly 25 years, and they are raising their 5 kids in Brooklyn, New York.
Ron DeSantis is a white supremacist. LISTEN NOW to Episode #761 of The Breakdown with Shaun King