Ron DeSantis signs law blocking local Florida governments from funding DEI

Florida governor says white men have been discriminated against in new effort to challenge inclusion programs Florida’s governor, Ron DeSantis, on Wednesday signed a law prohibiting local governments from funding or promoting diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives, saying that white men had been discriminated against. The Florida governor has been at the forefront of combatting DEI initiatives, despite criticism from groups nationwide. Under the new law, residents can sue local governments for violations and if individual local officials are found to have funded DEI initiatives, they can be removed from office. “We are, of course, the state where woke goes to die,” DeSantis said during a press conference announcing and signing the two new laws in the state. The law is a further effort to challenge local counties’ goals to promote race and gender inclusion programs. Supporters of DEI initiatives say that they help remedy the effects of long-term and historical discrimination of certain groups. While the governor is entitled to his opinion, his views differ from “everyone else’s”, said Evelyn Foxx, president of the NAACP branch in Gainesville, in an interview with the Associated