{"id":1935289,"date":"2023-05-22T00:57:50","date_gmt":"2023-05-22T04:57:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/naacp-leader-tells-black-americans-that-florida-isnt-safe-for-them-guess-where-he-lives\/"},"modified":"2023-05-22T00:57:50","modified_gmt":"2023-05-22T04:57:50","slug":"naacp-leader-tells-black-americans-that-florida-isnt-safe-for-them-guess-where-he-lives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/naacp-leader-tells-black-americans-that-florida-isnt-safe-for-them-guess-where-he-lives\/","title":{"rendered":"NAACP Leader Tells Black Americans That Florida Isn\u2019t Safe For Them. Guess Where He Lives"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">30<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fnaacp-leader-tells-black-americans-that-florida-isnt-safe-for-them-guess-where-he-lives%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1935289&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The NAACP Board of Directors issued a statement on Saturday warning black Americans that the state of Florida was not a safe place for them and included an official \u201ctravel advisory\u201d calling the state \u201copenly hostile\u201d \u2013 but the board\u2019s chairman, Leon Russell, apparently lives in Florida himself.<\/p>\n<p>The statement, released on Saturday, accused Governor Ron DeSantis of making \u201caggressive attempts to erase black history and to restrict diversity, equity, and inclusion programs in Florida schools.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>JUST IN: The NAACP Board of Directors has issued a travel advisory for Florida.<\/p>\n<p>It comes in response to \u201cGovernor Ron DeSantis\u2019 aggressive attempts to erase Black history and to restrict diversity, equity, and inclusion programs in Florida schools.\u201d pic.twitter.com\/l6IDDoYaqI<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Douglas Soule (@DouglasSoule) May 20, 2023<\/p>\n<p>The travel advisory goes on to warn black Americans that \u201cFlorida is openly hostile toward African Americans, people of color, and LGBTQ+ individuals. Before traveling to Florida, please understand that the state of Florida devalues and marginalizes the contributions of, and the challenges faced by African Americans and other communities of color.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But Florida GOP Chairman Christian Ziegler quickly noticed that Russell, chairman of the NAACP\u2019s Board of Directors, lived in Florida \u2014 and he offered a quick response.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe CHAIRMAN of the @NAACP lives in Tampa, FLORIDA!\u201d he tweeted. \u201cTrue leadership is being willing to do what you ask others to do \u2026 time to step up and MOVE. If you think our state is so bad, the @FloridaGOP will help with moving costs.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The CHAIRMAN of the @NAACP lives in Tampa, FLORIDA!<\/p>\n<p>True leadership is being willing to do what you ask others to do\u2026 time to step up and MOVE.<\/p>\n<p>If you think our state is so bad, the @FloridaGOP will help with moving costs. https:\/\/t.co\/fhvaiii9iB pic.twitter.com\/5NnhQZyc3P<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Christian Ziegler \ud83c\uddfa\ud83c\uddf8 (@ChrisMZiegler) May 21, 2023<\/p>\n<p>Florida has been the target of a number of attacks from the left in recent weeks \u2013 largely due to actions Governor DeSantis has taken to prevent doctors and parents from allowing minors to begin the medical process of gender transition and to prevent schools from teaching radical gender theory to elementary school students.<\/p>\n<p>DeSantis is also expected to announce a bid for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination in the coming days, joining a field that already includes former President Donald Trump, former South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley, former Arkansas Governor Asa Hutchinson, Senator Tim Scott of South Carolina, and Vivek Ramaswamy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The NAACP Board of Directors issued a statement on Saturday warning black Americans that the state of Florida was not a safe place for them and included an official \u201ctravel advisory\u201d calling the state \u201copenly hostile\u201d \u2013 but the board\u2019s chairman, Leon Russell, apparently lives in Florida himself. The statement, released on Saturday, accused Governor<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":93,"featured_media":2181697,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2023\/05\/GettyImages-824494788-scaled.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1935289","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2023\/05\/GettyImages-824494788-scaled.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1935289","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/93"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1935289"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1935289\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2181697"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1935289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1935289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1935289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}