Gov. Ron DeSantis has a dream. It’s a dream in which Florida lives in a post-racial world — not because he’s dedicated to righting the myriad disadvantages and inequities that beset racial minorities in this state, but because the official policy is that they must be ignored.
He has a dream in which Florida leaders look out over a state where African-American households have lower incomes than any other racial group, and pretend that those families aren’t struggling against systemic economic bias.
He has a dream in which it’s right for the state to scrub mentions of race-based health inequities from its websites (even from the page of the office set up to address minority health concerns) despite the fact that Black and Latino Floridians are far more likely to lack health coverage and to die of preventable diseases.
