DeSantis suspends elected Florida state attorney Monique Worrell, accusing her of being soft on crime
@StillIRise1963 Everyone should have seen this coming and been prepared for it. Worrell-Haughton is an excellent lawyer and community minded. After the dismissal last year of the prosecutor in Tampa, she would have been the next logical target. So...are the people who voted her in going to do anything?
@fulanigirl I don't understand the silence.
@StillIRise1963 From the FL voters? Me neither. The federal judge ruled last year that the dismissal was illegal but not a federal issue. Where is the state Democratic Party ? What are they doing? Of course...I don't live there and thankfully, I don't work there anymore, but I always had the sense people were waiting to be saved instead of taking the initiative themselves...🙅🏾♀️
@fulanigirl That's what I'm wondering. I hear no voices, no one protesting. What is happening in that state? Why are they succumbing like lemmings?
@StillIRise1963 I'm no expert on FL ...but this is what I observed while I was there: 1) people are just resigned to what comes and take a sort of...we'll get by approach; 2) even in the Black community there seems to be a rejection of anything too confrontational. I met so many "go along to get along" people it was mind boggling. Even my own relatives there have become that way and they are NOT from FL. 3) when I first got there in '93 people still lowered their eyes when whites passed by....
@fulanigirl @StillIRise1963 As a longtime, off and on (currently on) Floridian, this is all too true.
Most of my family has lived here more than 50 years now, and all of my family considers me to be an antagonist loudmouth because I can't stay silent and keep pushing them to think and act differently.
It's a waste of time, but I keep trying.
@ricardoharvin @StillIRise1963 Keep trying. You never know which young person will hear your words and feel them resonate.
@fulanigirl
Its the perputual condition and tempermant of the south, "be happy with what you got, toughen up and deal with it"
i think it's partly because living in the south conditions you to a way of life that's difficult to escape from (just not prepared for life in different places/cultures), and party "misery loves company (people need community so they don't want you to leave, dont wanna be alone, dont wanna feel like they failed where others succeeded)
@BigAngBlack @fulanigirl @ricardoharvin @StillIRise1963 Whereas the White population in the South tends to be on edge, aggressive, and looking for confrontation. May go all the way back to the Scotch-Irish penal colony of Georgia.
