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there were eerie parallels between florida in the 1960s and florida present day. i want to talk more about that with isaac davey errands and, the co-host of the new and exciting podcast racial model presents déjà news. i spent some good time sitting in for rachel. when rachael s away and you are there, you re the brains of the operation, the wordsmith that our viewers love. it is a very big deal for me to be interviewing for the first time. that s very kind of you, thank you. it was a real pleasure to work with you all those times on the racial maddow show. thank you. we teased a little bit about this podcast. you can go back if you haven t listened to it. episode two was about rhonda santas in florida and charlie johns.
historical parallels to some of the most important new stories that we are watching unfold right now. in one recent episode, they explore the fascinating historical precursor to ron desantis in florida. listen to this. in florida, the senate president charlie johns decided to attack the specter of school desegregation and additional way. he tried to use the state legislature he presided over to go after the people who were trying to make desegregation happen. he decided to create a special committee to go after civil rights activists, to go after the naacp. the thing to know about the johns committee is that even though charlie johns set it up to go after the naacp, it officially had a completely wide open mandate investigate anything that might pose any kind of threat to citizens of florida. the committee started to shift its focus. from there, the committee widened its scope, aggressively targeting gay people and the topics that educators taught in
that sound from today s episode, episode number 2 of my new podcast, deja news i m really proud of it and really happy with the way it came out there are six episodes altogether the second one posted today. you heard it along with my guests from the florida naacp and also, the conservative florida legislative leader charlie johns complaining so bad about these witnesses who had humiliated him at his own hearing. so the reason we just did a podcast about this, about the florida inquisitions in the 1950s and the 1960s, and those inquisitions going so poorly for florida s state government conservatives who thought they would be great the reason we did this about this time in history in florida is because it does give you a