Category: Race
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State senator who backed flying confederate battle flag tweets he’s not ‘confederate sympathizer’
By Dan Christensen FloridaBulldog.org Oops. That’s the key takeaway from Republican State Sen. Jay Collins’ chief of staff’s tweet Wednesday declaring that his boss’s proposed legislation to authorize the confederate battle flag to be flown on state and local government buildings in Florida was merely a blunder.
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A move to resurrect the confederate flag across Florida quickly fizzles in public sunlight
By Dan Christensen FloridaBulldog.org Eight years after the Florida senate stripped the confederate battle flag from that chamber’s official seal, a state senator tried briefly Tuesday to ensure the confederate flag could fly at government buildings across the state.
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New anti-protest laws in Florida, Oklahoma cast long shadow on First Amendment rights
By Carrie Levins Center for Public Integrity Tiffany Crutcher was worried. Oklahoma lawmakers had passed a new measure stiffening penalties for protesters who block roadways and granting immunity to drivers who unintentionally hit them. The state NAACP, saying the law was passed in response to racial justice demonstrations and could chill the exercising of First…
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‘Stacked against people of color;’ Review confirms Broward more punitive toward blacks
By Josh Salman Sarasota Herald-Tribune Vexed by a recent Sarasota Herald-Tribune investigation showing Broward County sentences blacks busted in drug-free zones to more prison time than whites, prosecutors disputed the findings.The newspaper must have erred, they said. But a monthlong review by the Herald-Tribune and State Attorney’s Office found Broward County’s own records are riddled with…