In office one month Florida Governor Rick Scott (R) has proposed cutting funding for historically black colleges, abolishing state offices that support minority-owned businesses, and wants to use the the Voting Rights Act to gerrymaander the state’s re-districting process.
The Miami Herald reports, Scott further alienated black lawmakers when he “implied that all black lawmakers grew up poor“ like Scott did. Scott said to group of 20 Democrats:
I grew up probably in the same situation as you guys. I started school in public housing. My dad had a sixth-grade education.
Rep. Betty Reed, D-Tampa, said she was ofended, but did not protest because she wanted a productive dialogue with the new governor.
Afterwards, Reed said,
He assumed that everyone [in the room] was poor and that can only be because you’re black.
Rep. Joe Gibbons, D-Hallandale Beach, said Scott’s choice of words was unfortunate even if he was trying to “empathize” with the black caucus. Gibbons said:
Some of us might be from the projects, but we come from all spectrums of life.
source: Think Progress
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