DeSantis on the NAACP’s Travel Advisory: ‘In Florida, We Have More Black Owned Businesses than Any Other State’

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DeSANTIS: “We just capped the highest quarter for tourism in the history of the state of Florida. And our view is we want everybody to succeed, regardless of their skin color. We don’t divvy up people by race. At the same time, it is worth pointing out that we have, in Florida, more black-owned businesses than any state in the nation, and we’ve also had more African Americans lead state agencies under my administration than at any time in Florida history. But with us, you know they’re there because of merit, not because we're trying to play identity politics. And if you want to look at education, the black students in Florida perform much higher than black students in most other states. We rank number three in fourth grade reading and number two in fourth grade math amongst our black student population. And oh, by the way, the head of the NAACP lives in Florida and a lot of their board members have put out on social media, during my governorship, Florida vacations where they seem to be having an awful good time."