The MSNBC host retweeted Florida State Senator Shevrin Jones this weekend, attacking Gov. DeSantis over Black children attending an event signing the ‘Stop W.O.K.E.’ bill into law.
QUICK FACTS:
- Joy Reid, host of “The Reidout” claims DeSantis having Black children at a recent event was “tantamount to child abuse.”
- “This mis-use of Black boys is tantamount to child abuse,” Reid said in a tweet. “I would really like to hear the back-story on who these kids were and how they wound up at a DeSantis event.”
- Reid went on to claim that the boys were merely a “prop” brought in from a charter school.
- “Update: heard from a Florida source today that these Black boys who America’s most racist governor used as props came from a Miami charter school (I won’t name the school to spare them from MAGA harassment/threats) & that they may not have known in advance why they were there,” Reid tweeted.
- “We are not going to categorize you based on your race. We are not gonna tell some kindergartener that they’re an oppressor based on their race and what may have happened 100 or 200 years ago. And we’re not gonna tell other kids that they’re oppressed based on their race,” DeSantis said about the new law.
JOY REID ON FLORIDA GOV. RON DESANTIS:
“Given how anti-Black DeSantis is, using Black children this way is extra sick.”
BACKGROUND:
- Christina Pushaw, DeSantis’ press secretary, followed up with Reid on Twitter saying everyone in attendance was there freely and knew what the bill entailed. “I was working at this event and helped with the set up,” Pushaw wrote.
- “Hundreds of people attended this event; those ~50 who ended up on stage freely chose to stand on stage.”
