MIAMI, Fla. – The Fla. NAACP and Fla. Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis clashed over his controversial laws when the civil rights organization decided to lead a boycott, asking Black people living outside of Fla. to avoid the state if they have vacation or relocation plans.
At the organization’s Fla. state conference in Orlando, the group voted unanimously to float the boycott also known as a travel advisory to protest DeSantis’ Stop W.O.K.E. law which prohibits classroom instructions that could make students feel responsibility, guilt or anguish for what other members of their race did in the past.
Black leaders criticized the act because they suggested it was designed to alter Black culture and Black history.
"In response to the Fla. Governor’s racist, anti-Black, anti-LGBTQ+ legislation, the NAACP Fla. State Conference voted unanimously to request that the NAACP National Board of Directors declare a travel advisory for Black and marginalized people traveling to the state of Fla.," said the NAACP in a statement after the conference.
The Fla. chapter of the NAACP says DeSantis’ policies have made the state so inhospitable it wants the national organization to issue a travel warning that advises people not to move or travel to the Sunshine state.
The Fla. NAACP is warning Blacks that the governor is putting a bullseye on their backs.
“What a travel advisory is that it allows us the NAACP to warn other Blacks across the country to not come to Florida, not send their children to Florida, not vacation in Fla. if you’re Black,” James Muwakkil, the Lee County NAACP branch President said during the conference.
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