The flyer for the “Governor Ron DeSantis’ and First Lady Casey DeSantis’ Black History Month Essay Contest” inviting Florida students to submit an essay “about an African-American who has had an impactful and inspiring effect on their community whose story should be shared” lists some spectacularly unsubtle picks for the example subjects listed.
The first one, former Navy pilot and NASA astronaut Winston E Scott, is a perfectly respectable choice. The other four however, are questionable at the very least. There’s Republican Congressman Byron Donalds, who voted against certifying Joe Biden as 46th President hours after the Capitol riot, Morris Young, a county sheriff who served on DeSantis’ “Reopen Florida” COVID task force in 2020, Anti-COVID testing jackass Florida Surgeon General Dr Joseph Ladopo, and Florida Secretary of the Department of Children and Families Shevaun Harris who recently tweeted “We are so fortunate to have a First Lady [Casey DeSantis] who cares so deeply for our youth”.
Not on the list are former Orlando Police Chief and current Congresswoman Val Demings, former Jacksonville Sheriff and president of HBCU Edward Waters College Nat Glover, and former Florida state Supreme Court Chief Justice Peggy Quince. But they’re all Democrats so any kid who profiles them in their essay will have their entry promptly thrown in the shredder.