Pastors Ben Atherton-Zeman and Andy Oliver protested the state of Florida’s attempts to erase a “Black History Matters” asphalt mural outside the Woodson African American Museum in St. Petersburg. Florida governor Ron DeSantis had ordered a crew to remove the mural as “non-standard road art.”
Lt. Governor Micah Beckwith recently took to X to post a short video denouncing the “DEI radical revisionist history” taught by “professors at woke schools.” His target: the idea that the 3/5 Compromise “was some terrible thing in our past.” This compromise—one of the compromises through which the U.S. Constitution was established in 1787—incorporated this language into Article I, Section 2 of the Constitution: “Representatives and direct Taxes shall be apportioned …
