Five of the six new appointees are either directly affiliated with the Republican Party or have previously been appointed to positions by Governor Ron DeSantis.

The sixth, State Representative Kimberly Daniels’ (D-Jacksonville), is facing renewed criticism over comments made during a sermon back in 2008.

“I thank God for slavery. I thank God for the crack house. If it weren’t for the crack house, God wouldn’t have never been able to use me how he can use me now and if it wasn’t for slavery, I might be somewhere in Africa worshiping a tree,” Daniels said during the sermon delivered at Solid Rock Church in Monroe, Ohio.

Daniels previously defended her statements in an interview with Action News Jax during her run for office in 2011.

“If slavery wouldn’t have happened, it was an awful thing, I wouldn’t be living in the greatest country in the land today,” Daniels said in the 2011 interview.

https://news.yahoo.com/thank-god-slavery-florida-african-215036843.html

Calilasseia wrote:And not only are the wannabee bedsheet wearers trying to rewrite history (and recruit useful idiots to aid them in this), we also have that nasty little song that's been making all the white Christian Nationalists jizz in their incontinence pants ...the one that even other people here on the European side of the Atlantic recognise is a blatant homage to the homicidal bigotry endemic to Sundowner Towns. Won't take the diligent long to track that particular floater in the toilet bowl of discourse.

The_Piper wrote:
What song is that?

Tortured_Genius wrote:

The_Piper wrote:
What song is that?

I've seen more piss-takes out of the song than the song itself:

The ‘Goon Squad’ torture of Eddie Parker & Michael Jenkins cries out for uncomfortable reckoning

On January 24th, six armed intruders broke into a house in Braxton, Mississippi. Once inside, they found two Black men, Eddie Terrell Parker and Michael Corey Jenkins. The intruders brandished guns. A shot was fired into a wall of the home to intimidate Parker and Jenkins into submission.

The men were handcuffed, beaten, and brutalized. Racial slurs like “nigger” and “monkey” and “boy” were allegedly volleyed by their tormentors. Jenkins and Parker were told to leave Rankin County, to go back to Jackson or “their side of the Pearl River.”

A dildo was mounted on the end of a BB gun and forced into Parker’s mouth. One of the assailants threatened to sodomize the men with the sex toy. He only stopped when he grabbed the back of Jenkins’ pants and realized his victim had defecated himself.

Parker and Jenkins were then subjected to a series of additional humiliations. Milk, chocolate syrup, alcohol, and cooking oil were poured over their heads and into their mouths. Eggs were hurled at the men. They were then forced to strip naked and shower together.

The intruders robbed the home. They took turns tasing Parker and Jenkins to see who owned the strongest taser. The tasers used were discharged seventeen times during this cruel ‘game.’

A gun was shoved into Jenkins mouth. He was inadvertently shot. The bullet sliced through his tongue, shattered his jaw, and exited out of his neck.

Jenkins laid bleeding out on the floor while the criminals planned their getaway. Fortunately, he survived.

What appears above is not the dramatized plot of a John Grisham novel set in the segregated 1960s South, though it may seem that way at first blush.

These are the facts contained in a criminal information filed by the U.S. Department of Justice against five officers of the Rankin County Sheriff’s Office (RCSO) and one officer with the Richland Police Department (RPD), set in the year 2023.

Tortured_Genius wrote:

The_Piper wrote:
What song is that?

I've seen more piss-takes out of the song than the song itself:

[Reveal] Spoiler:

Seabass wrote:https://magnoliatribune.com/2023/08/10/the-goon-squad-torture-of-eddie-parker-michael-jenkins-cries-out-for-uncomfortable-reckoning/

The ‘Goon Squad’ torture of Eddie Parker & Michael Jenkins cries out for uncomfortable reckoning

On January 24th, six armed intruders broke into a house in Braxton, Mississippi. Once inside, they found two Black men, Eddie Terrell Parker and Michael Corey Jenkins. The intruders brandished guns. A shot was fired into a wall of the home to intimidate Parker and Jenkins into submission.

The men were handcuffed, beaten, and brutalized. Racial slurs like “nigger” and “monkey” and “boy” were allegedly volleyed by their tormentors. Jenkins and Parker were told to leave Rankin County, to go back to Jackson or “their side of the Pearl River.”

A dildo was mounted on the end of a BB gun and forced into Parker’s mouth. One of the assailants threatened to sodomize the men with the sex toy. He only stopped when he grabbed the back of Jenkins’ pants and realized his victim had defecated himself.

Parker and Jenkins were then subjected to a series of additional humiliations. Milk, chocolate syrup, alcohol, and cooking oil were poured over their heads and into their mouths. Eggs were hurled at the men. They were then forced to strip naked and shower together.

The intruders robbed the home. They took turns tasing Parker and Jenkins to see who owned the strongest taser. The tasers used were discharged seventeen times during this cruel ‘game.’

A gun was shoved into Jenkins mouth. He was inadvertently shot. The bullet sliced through his tongue, shattered his jaw, and exited out of his neck.

Jenkins laid bleeding out on the floor while the criminals planned their getaway. Fortunately, he survived.

What appears above is not the dramatized plot of a John Grisham novel set in the segregated 1960s South, though it may seem that way at first blush.

These are the facts contained in a criminal information filed by the U.S. Department of Justice against five officers of the Rankin County Sheriff’s Office (RCSO) and one officer with the Richland Police Department (RPD), set in the year 2023.

Seabass wrote:Gunman kills three, himself in racially motivated shooting, Jacksonville sheriff says
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/mayor-number-fatalities-jacksonville-florida-shooting-media-2023-08-26/

Jacksonville shooting is the latest incident of fatal violence driven by racist hatred
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/nbcblk/jacksonville-shooting-latest-spasm-violence-driven-racist-hatred-rcna102017

The Jacksonville Killer Wanted Everyone to Know His Message of Hate
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2023/08/jacksonville-killer-wanted-everyone-know-his-message-hate/675155/

Canada has issued a new travel warning to its LGBT citizens planning to visit the United States.

Anti-LGBT protests in the US rose 30-fold last year compared with 2017, while legal moves to restrict LGBT rights are on the rise.

Global Affairs Canada warned that some state laws may affect them on their travels, but did not specify where.

Such warnings are usually reserved for countries such as Uganda, Russia or Egypt.

A Philadelphia police officer has been charged with murder after footage showed him fatally shooting a 27-year-old motorist in his car last month.

Eddie Irizarry was killed while sitting in the driver's seat of his vehicle holding a knife, say prosecutors.

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The union representing Philadelphia police officers asked people "to reserve judgment until all the evidence is presented during trial".