Florida Republican, Ileana Garcia, says we need to move on from racism.

[OrlandoDem2]

Because Obama was president. What a horrible message on MLK weekend!

‘I think those critical race theories, they just add more gasoline to the fire versus putting it out.'
Not only should critical race theory be banned in Florida public schools, but racism against African Americans is no longer an issue in the United States because Barack Obama was elected President and served two full terms, according to Sen. Ileana Garcia.

In an interview that aired one day before Martin Luther King Jr. Day, Garcia told CBS 4 Miami investigative reporter Jim DeFede she believes the Black experience in America is “not at all” different from that of White people.

“That’s why we had Obama as President,” she said. “That’s the best example in the world. Obama was President not for four years, for eight.”

Garcia’s comments came shortly after DeFede asked Garcia, a Miami-Dade County Republican and the founder of Latinas for Trump, whether she supported Gov. Ron DeSantis’ Stop W.O.K.E. Act. The proposed law, which stands for Stop Wrongs Against Our Kids and Employees Act, would among other things codify the state Department of Education’s June 2021 ban on critical race theory, empower parents to sue districts that implement critical race theory policies and allow the defunding of schools that hire critical race theory “consultants.”

https://floridapolitics.com/archives/487133-people-should-move-on-ileana-garcia-says-racism-isnt-an-issue-because-barack-obama-was-president/

By the way, she won a rigged election by 34 votes with shadow candidates that resulted in the arrest of one person for fraud. And she’s of Cuban descent.

[Lovie777]

1. How . . .

when your party continue to taunt it.

asshole.

[cos dem]

2. Yeah, and since white people lost their shit over Obama, we got TFG.

[OrlandoDem2]

3. Here is a clip of her interview. Watch for yourself. Infuriating!!

Link to tweet

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[secondwind]

10. What a phony...........

phony nose, phony lips...... I couldn't look and listen for long... ugh

[Walleye]

4. She thinks we should move on, but she is nursing a long-held garage

[sop]

6. Miami Cuban Americans still haven't let go of their 60-year-old grudge against Castro.

It's still so fresh in their minds no politician can run for any office - local, state or federal - without first condemning Castro and pandering to this long-held grudge.

[sop]

5. Jim DeFede is a hell of an investigative reporter.

As long as a significant number of conservatives are proud of shitty things like The Confederacy, preach white pride, march with nazi symbols and are doing everything they can to bring back Jim Crow-era voting laws, we can't "move on from racism," no matter how much they want to pretend it no longer exists.

[dutch777]

7. People's narrow mindedness is also short sighted. By not working together, we hold the country...

...back. Whether it is racism, or sexism, or Dem vs. Repug to the death, or not getting vaxxed, we may be making our personal statement and exercise our "freedom" but we do so by dividing not uniting and also are slowing or stopping or even reversing the so called American Exceptionalism that so many brag about and that has made us a world leading country. So much potential and so much of it squandered in endless debates and squabbles.

[Diamond_Dog]

8. Was this woman was sleeping through the summer of 2020?

[OneBlueDotS-Carolina]

9. Ileana Ydolia Garcia is a Republican politician from Florida,

She served as the first Hispanic female Deputy Press Secretary at the Department of Homeland Security under President Donald Trump. Garcia founded the group Latinas for Trump and in 2016 was the Trump campaign's communications Director for Latino outreach.

2020 Florida Senate election fraud investigation

In June 2020, Garcia filed to run against incumbent Democrat José Javier Rodríguez in Florida's 37th State Senate District. She was endorsed by Republican state senate President-Designate Wilton Simpson and Republican Majority Leader Kathleen Passidomo.[2] On the first count, Garcia beat Rodríguez by a narrow margin of 31 votes; the lead increased to 34 after a recount.[4][5]

Garcia's election came under immediate scrutiny by local news outlets for the candidacy of independent candidate Alex Rodríguez, who shares the same last name as José Javier Rodríguez. Alex Rodríguez received 6,382 votes,[6] and it was widely acknowledged that his candidacy was decisive in the outcome of the election.[7]

On March 17, 2021, former Republican State Senator Frank Artiles was accused of having paid $44,708.03 to Alex Rodríguez before and after the election in order for him to run as a false candidate in order to siphon off votes from candidate José Javier Rodríguez.[8] His house at Palmetto Bay was searched, and he surrendered the next day to the Miami-Dade County Jail.


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ileana_Garcia