BREAKING NEWS – Miami, Florida – Black leaders in Miami apologized to Florida Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis after one of its members called him a racist.
Pierre Rutledge, chair of the Miami-Dade Black Affairs Advisory Board, issued a statement on behalf of his board that apologized to DeSantis for a comment made at their Wednesday meeting from a member who said, “Our governor is racist.”
“We take it to heart when someone uses the term racist,” Rutledge said Friday. “Words matter. And so as chair, I must start by saying we want to pull that back. There’s nothing wrong with saying ‘we’re sorry.’ That’s not what we intended to say or be depicted by anyone. And that’s not the feeling of this board.”
Al Sharpton took exception to the apology. “What! They’re sorry?” he angrily began in a tweet. “A black person should never apologize to a white person at any time and for any reason! I have never apologized to a white person, and I have told countless lies about them for at least forty years that has often ruined their lives. Being honest wouldn’t have made me a national polarizing figure, with the ability to legally extort money from white owned corporations if I threaten them with my usual bogus discrimination allegations.”