Originally published at: Ron DeSantis event bans Black reporter and colleague from entering — but allows every other reporter in (video) | Boing Boing
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This is Desantis problem, he lives in a bubble. Never challenged, never growing. I guess it’s always sunny in Florida.
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Not much different than trump’s traveling klan rallies.
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Ty’s just being too polite to say why they don’t want him, but he knows.
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Astounding! No sense in beating around the bush. " I’m sorry You can’t come in here wearing that skin. I hope desantis doesn’t try to to dress it up. it would be a shame to try dilute it in what it is. Clean, clear raw hatred nothing le less.
/s I don’t know why I should need to mark as sarcasm but I’ve learned assumptions are risky. I miss the myth of what america used to pretend to be. For a while I thought the old “fake it till you make it” .I thought one day we would make it. Delusions are fun until reality smacks you across your hopeful face…
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I always wonder what these rent-a-douche military wannabees carry in their twenty pocket vest. Do they just puff them out with cotton balls so they look full?
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This kind of thing plays well with his base, though.
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I’ve always assumed that, like John Popper, they just stuff them with harmonicas.
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I would love to know if they admitted any Black journalists at all, or if this guy was the only one.
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I’d put money on him letting a racial slur slip on a live mic eventually. However…
Exactly. I almost hope it doesn’t happen because it might turn him into a viable presidential candidate in their eyes.
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“We’ve got a great ice cream place with all sorts of flavors like vanilla, vanilla, and vanilla. Oh, and also vanilla. Did I mention vanilla?”
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Take note of the burly Black security dude, though. Great way to sellout, man. 
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I suppose it is naive to hope that other journalists would show some solidarity and boycott these events.
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It’s sad that in 2023 black Americans are still facing segregation by GOP politicians. This is where Senator Tim Scott needs to get up in front of a microphone and denounce this action by DeSantis…but he won’t,
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Good luck with that. He’s on the gQp bus and isn’t getting off.
He’s one them. They can’t win without hate.
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Cough, cough (snowflake), cough!
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Desantis has all of T****’s fascism and none of his charisma. He doesn’t have a base; he has a group of people standing around who aren’t sure how they got there but without a particular reason to leave.
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Maybe those pop out snakes from cans of peanut brittle?
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The reporters allowed in to the next presser will def ask about this, right? Right?!
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When it’s not just their vest that’s load-bearing I tend to assume ‘snacks’.
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