Gov. Ron DeSantis and other Republican politicians are drawing an iron curtain of denial and ignorance across the history and continuing influence of racism in the United States.
There are disturbing signs that this revisionism has become policy at the Florida Supreme Court as well.
Over the years, it tried diligently to atone for having repeatedly barred a Black man from the state’s segregated law school in the 1950s. In 1989, it established a Racial and Ethnic Bias Study Commission whose reports inspired reforms across all three branches of government, including the appointment of many more minority judges.
