BREAKING: A Florida judge on Thursday declared a Florida law championed by Gov. Ron DeSantis that restricts race-based conversation and analysis in business and education unconstitutional.
— the idea that racism is systemic in U.S. institutions that serve to perpetuate white dominance in society.
The governor’s office did not immediately respond to an email seeking comment. DeSantis has repeatedly said any losses at the lower court level on his priorities are likely to be reversed by appeals courts that are generally more conservative.prohibits teaching or business practices that contend members of one ethnic group are inherently racist and should feel guilt for past actions committed by others.
Another lawsuit, which was filed Thursday by college professors and students, claims the law amounts to “racially motivated censorship” that will act to “stifle widespread demands to discuss, study and address systemic inequalities” underscored by the national discussion of race after the killing of George Floyd, who was Black, by Minneapolis police in May 2020.
Like the professors, a group of K-12 teachers and a student claim in a third pending lawsuit that the law violates the Constitution’s protections of free expression, academic freedom and access to information in public schools.
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