What the Fascists Want

 What DeSantis and the other Republican fascists want is a country where white people are never made to feel uncomfortable. In essence, white people should never be made to feel challenged in "their own country" by Black or brown people who dare to speak the truth. The ability to choose how, where, when and in what ways that one will be made to feel uncomfortable (or not) is one of the basic tenets of white privilege – and other forms of privilege as well. DeSantis and his allies in Florida and across the country are abusing African-American history (and education more broadly) to fit that expectation. At the Washington Post, Karen Attiah summarizes this upside down nightmare dreamworld of white fantasies and paranoia as: "Instead, by singling out AP African American studies, Florida is showing us what the end game was always about: making institutional anti-Blackness lawful again".

In the end for Desantis, Trump, and those many tens of millions of other Americans who worship at the throne of Whiteness, America is a White man's country and Black and brown people are just guests.

-Chauncey Devega in Salon.com