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Sheriffs in Florida are a colorful bunch maybe a little too colorful.

Its not easy being known as Floridas worst sheriff. We have a deep bench.

This week, with the COVID-19 pandemic causing new highs in Florida deaths, Marion County Sheriff Billy Woods made his move by forbidding his deputies from wearing masks while on duty or on special details, with a few exceptions. He also banned mask wearing by members of the public while they visited his department offices.

"We can debate and argue all day why and why not," the sheriff told The Ocala Star-Banner. "The fact is, the amount of professionals that give the reason why we should, I can find the exact same amount of professionals that say why we shouldnt."

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OK, so Woods is a stone-cold ignoramus who is a danger to the community hes supposed to protect.

And yet, arguably, he still might not be the worst sheriff in Florida.

After all, you have to consider Clay County Sheriff Darryl Daniels, who was arrested Thursday by the Florida Department of Law Enforcement on multiple felony charges.

Florida sheriffs who themselves get arrested earn bonus points in this competition.

The charges stem from Daniels move last year to wrongfully arrest his longtime mistress after she broke off their six-year affair. She had worked for Daniels at his previous job as a Duval County corrections officer.

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But wait, theres more. Using his position to file a false stalking charge against his old girlfriend might not even be the worst thing he has done in law enforcement.

Recently, Daniels, while wearing a giant cowboy hat with his green uniform, made a Facebook video warning Black Lives Matter protesters to stay away from Clay County.

Daniels, who is Black, said that if any protesters organized there and threatened to destroy any property, he would deputize every legal gun owner in Clay County to handle them.

"God is absent from the medias message or Black Lives Matter or any other group out there thats making themselves a spectacle, disrupting what we know to be our quality of life in this country," Daniels said in the video.

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"If you threaten to come to Clay County and think for one second, that well bend our backs to you, youre sadly mistaken " he continued. "Well have something waiting on you that you didnt want."

Daniels said he would deputize local gun owners "to stand in the gap between lawlessness and civility."

The freshly arrested Daniels is on the ballot next week for re-election as Clay County Sheriff.

And when it comes to tough-guy showboating, we cant forget Floridas version of Joe Arpaio, Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd.

Judds another one with a tough-guy personality disorder, which he expresses by inventing ways to make his jail inmates miserable. He has denied them free underwear in jail, and taken away the jails basketball backboard and hoop.

"If they want to play basketball, they should stay out of jail," he said. "Im not going to have an environment where they feel like theyre at a fitness center."

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And when a hurricane approaches, Judd uses it as an opportunity to check the immigration status of those seeking refuge in the county shelters.

These tin-badge despots who get aroused by their own cartoonish invective have their own group called The Florida Sheriffs Association, which occasionally imagines itself as a law-enforcement-optional body.

For example, during the Obama administration, the Florida Sheriffs Association announced that Florida sheriffs "will not assist, support, or condone any unconstitutional infringement" of the Second Amendments right to bear arms in the state.

The proclamation was a ridiculous response to some executive orders issued by Obama that were hardly controversial or Constitutionally problematic. Most of them helped the police.

"Improve incentives for states to share information with the background-check system. ... Launch a national safe and responsible gun ownership campaign. ... ," the list included. "Provide law enforcement, first responders, and school officials with proper training for active shooter situations. ... Release a letter to health care providers clarifying that no federal law prohibits them from reporting threats of violence to law enforcement authorities."

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These were the executive orders that alarmed the Florida Sheriffs Association. Go figure.

Lee County Sheriff Mike Scott, who seconded the motion on the proclamation, told the Naples Daily News why it was a necessary statement to make.

"Its a dangerous time if one man can change the Constitution through any type of executive order," Scott said.

Scott retired two years ago as Lee County Sheriff. If not he would have certainly been on my list of worst sheriffs in Florida.

Scott fought the local NAACP chapter in Lee County over its modest objection to the framed portrait of Gen. Robert E. Lee in his Confederate uniform hanging in the county commission chambers behind the dais.

The civil rights group suggested displaying a different portrait of Lee that didnt show him garbed in the Confederacy uniform. Almost 9 percent of Lee County residents are black.

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Scott used this request as a vehicle to attack local civil rights leaders for not being more supportive of George Zimmerman, a self-appointed vigilante who shot and killed an unarmed black teenager, Trayvon Martin, during a sidewalk encounter eight years ago.

"I find your resurrected fixation with the portrait of Robert E. Lee and the demand for its removal regrettable," then Sheriff Scott wrote the local NAACP a year after the Martin killing. "The timing so proximate to the Zimmerman race-baiting is certainly suspect.

"While I am not black, I continue to be amazed by what is deemed racially offensive and/or insensitive and what is not. For example, the rampant use of the word n----- (which he spelled out completely) in the wildly popular hip-hop culture that floods the ears of youth across this nation and is comprised primarily of black artists apparently stirs little to no emotion among blacks but the portrait of General Lee does?"

Oy. Are there enough human resources training sessions in the world to fix that?

Compared with these examples, Palm Beach County Sheriff Ric Bradshaw is like a combination of Mahatma Gandhi and Stuart Smalley.

But Bradshaws no prize package either.

He and his political patron Barry Krischer were essential players in the clandestine coddling of serial child rapist Jeffrey Epstein, who was given his own private wing in the Palm Beach County Stockade by Bradshaw, and privileges to come and go from the jail as if it were a hotel.

And Bradshaw never seems to have enough money in his departments budget to equip his deputies with body cameras a truth-revealing tool in officer-involved shootings even though the sheriffs offices in Miami-Dade and Broward counties have had body cameras for years.

But Bradshaw has the advantage of appearing to be relatively reasonable in this group of unreasonable lawmen.

It takes an awful lot to be the worst sheriff in Florida.

fcerabino@pbpost.com

@FranklyFlorida

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As he watched Joseph Stalins coffin removed from Red Square in 1961, Yevgeny Yevtushenko asked, But how to remove Stalin from Stalins heirs. For us, in 2020 the question becomes: How to remove racism from the anti-racists?

According to Ibram X. Kendi, a rising scholar of the white disorder called racism, there is no such thing as being non-racist. You are either a purposeful anti-racist or a racist. No neutral ground exists. To be color-blind is a ruse. Since racism is the original sin of Euro-Americans, to be anti-racist is to be well, you finish the sentence.

Even the American Library Association has genuflected to the unspoken substructure of the anti-racist meme. Amid protests following the death of George Floyd, the ALA issued a press release heaving with self-accusation. It confessed:

The American Library Association (ALA) accepts and acknowledges its role in upholding unjust systems of racism and discrimination against Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC) within the association and the profession.

We recognize that the founding of our Association was not built on inclusion and equity, but instead was built on systemic racism and discrimination in many forms. We also recognize the hurt and harm done to BIPOC library workers and communities due to these racist structures.

Penitent librarians rushed to promote an anti-racist reading list, a round-up of titles and authors suited to grievance studies seminars and mandatory re-education workshops. The keynote was struck by the collected penses of former Black Panther and police abolitionist Angela Davis, and Kendis instructions to white people on how to disown the racism of good intentions and become anti-racist.

Robin DiAngelos White Fragility was inevitable, as was Michael Eric Dysons Tears We Cannot Stop: a Sermon to White America, and anything by slavery reparations advocate Ta-Nehisi Coates. Layla Saads Me and White Supremacy comes straight to the point. It declares all Caucasians complicit in white supremacy due to their melanin count.

In June, my local public library published its social justice bona fides on the buildings faade: CHANGE STARTS WITH YOU. BLACK LIVES MATTER. Staff librarians compiled a list of books for children that promoted the anti-racist theme to young readers from toddlers to teens.

Titles suggest what the staff all white; all-female consider necessary for youngsters in a predominantly white town: Skin Again; The Skin You Live In; Woke, A Young Poets Call to Justice; The Power Book; Lets Talk About Race; One Person, No Vote: How Not All Voters Are Treated Equally; Rise Up!: The Art of Protest; The Hate U Give; Black Brother, Black Brother; We Rise, We Resist, We Raise Our Voices; The Power Book.

It is not possible to annotate all of them. It is enough to highlight those that epitomize the timbre of the entire venture. Begin with Kendis picture book Antiracist Baby, a kindergarten distillation of his bestseller for teens Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You.

Dedicated to all young people unbound by the imaginations of state violence and white supremacy, the book is meant to be read by white parents to their potentially racist fledglings. Antiracist Baby is bred, not born. Put plainly, white tots must be trained bred to recognize and denounce their latent racism. As it is never too soon to create a woke child, a newly published board book edition, intended for teething infants to age three, is now on Amazon.

Breanna McDaniels picture book Hands Up! preserves the mythology of the 2014 Ferguson riots by insinuating the trademark slogan of Black Lives Matter (Hands up! Dont Shoot!) into a sequence of childlike vignettes. It begins sweetly: Greet the sun, bold and bright! / Tiny hands up! Next page: Peek-a-boohands up!

The repeated refrain accompanies a little girls growth in age and race consciousness: Together we are mighty. / High fives all around, hands up! The progression reaches its politicized climax with the girl, older now, at a protest march: As one we say, HANDS UP!

The Black Lives Matter sign tells the rest. What it does not tell is that Michael Brown never did raise his hands in surrender and did not say, Dont shoot.

Another picture book recommended for children aged 3 to 8 is Anastasia Higginbothams Not My Idea: A Book About Whiteness. Pulsing with reformist zeal, Higginbotham writes for white parents anxious to inform their young that white supremacy is a lie; that white innocence is a lie. Every white child needs prompting to Question everything you are told about your goodness and your value as a white person.

Higginbothams illustration places Colin Kaepernick on the same principled plane as John Lewis and other lionhearts of the 1960s Civil Rights movement. The moral grandeur of that movement dwindles to her mandate for todays kids: Be a spy. Catch whiteness lying to you.

Kendis contempt for his country is in sharper relief in Stamped, a young-adult version of his 2016 National Book Award winner Stamped From The Beginning. Scaled to the lowest common denominator of teen readers in collaboration with Jason Reynolds, it revolves around the axis of denunciation. Kendi reminds us repeatedly that This is not a history book. It is a not history history book.

Nikole Hannah-Jones, non-historian architect of The 1619 Project, follows Kendis lead almost verbatim:

Ive always said that the 1619 Project is not a history, Hannah-Jones said in a series of tweets. It is a work of journalism that explicitly seeks to challenge the national narrative and, therefore, the national memory. The project has always been as much about the present as it is the past.

Translation: The project uses prevailing ignorance of the American story, in its fullness and complexity, to dig up old bones in a reductive narrative that turns the nations founders into sows ears. And stokes black antagonism.

Kendi supplied Hannah-Joness dismissal of Lincoln as the Great Emancipator as slaves called him in the 1860s together with her claim that black Americans fought back alone. After informing teen readers that Lincoln spoke out of three sides of his mouth, Dr. Kendi adds: Lincoln was labeled the Great Emancipator, but really, Black people were emancipating themselves.

School kids will not learn from these two of the 2.2 million Union soldiers who fought to end slavery and 365,000 who died. Kendi cuts the Civil War down to this:

There were now two governments, like rival gangs. And what have gangs always done when one gang feels their turf is being threatened?

FIGHT!

Welcome to the Civil War.

The wrecking ball swings at White people with the same derision aimed at Benjamin Franklin:

Franklin started a club called the American Philosophical Society in 1743 in Philadelphia. It was modeled after the Royal Society in England and served as, basically, a club for smart (White) people. Thinkers. Philosophers. And . . . racists. See, in the Enlightenment era, light was seen as a metaphor for intelligence (think, I see the light) and also whiteness (think, opposite of dark). And this is what Franklin was bringing to America through his club of ingenious fools.

Contemptuous of assimilationist vomit, Kendi falsifies the Trayvon Martin case to fit an activist narrative. Despite considerable evidence that George Zimmerman acted in lawful self-defense, Kendi presents the incident that set in motion the Black Lives Matter movement as if no rational grounds existed for not convicting Zimmerman as a racist murderer:

Zimmermans racist ideas in 2012 transformed an easy-going Trayvon Martin walking home from a 7-Eleven holding watermelon juice and Skittles into a menace to society holding danger. . . . If not for racist ideas, Trayvon would still be alive. His dreams of becoming a pilot would still be alive.

The crudity of the prose matches the vulgarizations of the historians craft. Displacement of real history with the politics of resentment provides a rationale for endless racial preferences. It is a point lost on the ALA, but not on Amy L. Wax:

Under the new dispensation, unconstrained group preferences for blacks would be the order of the day, with other groups pushed aside without delay or ceremony. As Kendi puts it in How to Be an Anti-Racist, Fundamentally, the modern antiracist movement is . . . pro-discrimination [against whites and Asians].

Ultimately, Kendis statement is a quiet admission that antiracism is not benign. It is a rationalized form of genealogical blackmail.

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A woman who has already been arrested once for throwing paint on the Black Lives Matter mural in front of Trump Tower was arrested again for doing exactly the same thing.

Police say 39-year-old Juliet Germanotta acted alone this time in vandalizing the mural on Fifth Avenue. She was caught on camera Wednesday on her knees, spreading blue paint all over the yellow mural with her hands. The mural supporting the movement for racial justice has been vandalized several times since it was painted on July 9.

Germanotta and two other women were arrested the last time the mural was painted over on July 17. The vandalism appeared to be a coordinated effort involving about 10 people. There were plans going around on social media with a group of people discussing pulling off the stunt.

When the mural was painted, Germanotta told News 4 at that time that she would come back to deface the mural. When a bystander said she would go to jail, Germanotta said, "I don't care. There's no bail." She was charged again Wednesday with criminal mischief.

For the second time in a week, vandals were caught on camera pouring paint on the Black Lives Matter mural outside Trump Tower. Ray Villeda reports.

The mural has been called by President Donald Trump as a "symbol of hate," but the words coined after the 2012 killing of Trayvon Martin, a Florida teen who was shot by neighborhood watch George Zimmerman, have become a movement for racial justice.

"Our city isnt just painting the words on Fifth Avenue. Were committed to the meaning of the message," Mayor Bill de Blasio said after the mural was painted.

The mural is one of five found in each of the city's five boroughs.

Just days after it was painted - the Black Lives Matter mural in front of Trump Tower has been defaced. Jen Maxfield reports.

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Members of the Newark community painted "Abolish White Supremacy" and "All Black Lives Matter" on Halsey street and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd on Saturday, June 27. Drone video taken on Monday, June 29, in Newark. NorthJersey.com

South Orange is home to the latest brouhaha over the Black Lives Matter movement, with the pastor of Our Lady of Sorrows telling one of his lectors to stop wearing a t-shirt that bears the message of racial equity.

The Rev. Brian Needles said in a letter to the lector that several people complained to him about his attire. Needles letter, posted in a local Facebook group, says a t-shirt, incredibly enough, can be a real source of division and distraction.

We live in such a contentious society already and I dont want a t-shirt worn at Mass to become a source of distraction or bad feelings in our parish, the letter reads. When the word of God is proclaimed, nothing, including a slogan on a shirt, should distract listeners from the fruitful hearing of the scriptures.

The request has caused a stir in South Orange and neighboring Maplewood, liberal enclaves where residents pride themselves on professing racial justice. Last month the towns joined to paint Black Lives Matterin two places on Valley Road, a few blocks from Our Lady of Sorrows. Black Lives Matter signs dot numerous front lawns in both towns.

A spokesperson for the Archdiocese of Newark said lectors should adhere to a dress code.(Photo: Terrence T. McDonald)

In a statement, the Archdiocese of Newark, which oversees the church, said parishioners are welcome to wear shirts that promote a cause or movement, but lectors should follow the archdiocesan dress code.

"The policy requires celebrants and lay ministers to refrain from wearing t-shirts as well as any clothing that draws attention to the individual and distracts from the word of God," the statement reads. "This is to ensure that the assemblys attention is focused on scripture and not on the individual proclaiming it."

Walter Fields, founder of education advocacy group Black Parents Workshop, told NorthJersey.com as a Christian he is perplexedthat a "stand for oppressed people" could be seen as contradictory to the message of the Catholic Church.

"In the Bible that I read Jesus Christ is a revolutionary prophet who challenged injustice and stood for 'the least of these, Fields said. To suggest a t-shirt is somehow offensive to the word of Christ is to suggest that our worship is not Christ-like."

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Support of the Black Lives Matter has risen dramatically since the movement began in 2013 as a reaction to the acquittal of George Zimmerman in the death of Trayvon Martin. A majority of American voters support the movement by a double-digit margin, according to online research firm Civiqs. The movement has gained increasing popularity since the police killings of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor, which sparked nationwide unrest and calls for police reform.

But the phrase continues to spark political division. When the state Assembly voted in June to designate July 13 as Black Lives Matter Day, 18 members abstained, including Assemblyman Jon Bramnick, R-Union, who said he believes Black lives matter but does not support the Black Lives Matter organization.

In Hackensack, Beech Street resident Janine Luppino is at the center of her own Black Lives Matter controversy. Luppino hung a Black Lives Matter banner on her balcony about a month ago, leading to a spat between her and her condo association, which told her she must take the banner down.

Luppino acknowledges the banner which she noted hangs inside her balcony, not over the side is not permitted by the associations rules. But she said some of her neighbors also have items on their balconies that are not permitted, like plant hangers hanging off the side.

Ill follow the rules when everybody else follows the rules, she said.

Luppino on her balcony with the Black Lives Matter banner that landed her in hot water with her condo association.(Photo: Mitsu Yasukawa/ Northjersey.com)

The condo buildings management, which declined to comment, told Luppino and her husband they will lose their pool privileges if the banner is not removed and may have one of their parking spaces revoked, Luppino said.

She said because of her schedule she can't be heavily involved in Black Lives Matter protests, but she wanted to do something.

"It was something I felt like doing as solidarity," she said."It just felt good to do it, to make a statement."

Terrence T. McDonaldis a reporter for NorthJersey.com. For unlimited access to the most important news from your local community,please subscribe or activate your digital account today.

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Important discussions continue at CSUN as departments and organizations across campus work together to support students in the fight for justice and equality.

Hundreds of CSUN students, faculty, staff and alumni have attended virtual conversations that began after several Black individuals were killed during acts ofpolice violence, including George Floyd in Minneapolis and Breonna Taylor in Louisville. In the days after Floyds death in late May, the University Student Union (USU) worked with University Counseling Services (UCS) to develop a series of conversations titled HealingSpace: Uplifting the Community After Tragic Loss. As the focus of the discussions has evolved, the name was changed starting July 31 to Essential Talks.

Updates on upcoming topics will be posted on the CSUN USU Instagram page.

Racquel Holloway, the 2020-21 Black Student Leadership Council president

The conversations provide a place to discuss current issues, build positive connections and identify how the campus community can take action in support of social justice advocacy, said Freddie Snchez, the USUs associate director of Marketing and Programs. Hundreds of students, faculty and staff have joined the conversations.

During the sessions, many CSUN students of color, including Black students and LGBTQIA+ students, have shared emotional stories of their experiences, fears and vulnerability as they go about their lives.The campus community has rallied around these students, with members of departments and organizations around campus voicing support and taking steps to work for change.

It has been comfortingto see the outpouringof support from so many of the differentcampus organizations, saidRacquel Holloway,the 2020-21 Black Student Leadership Council president and a senior public health major. During this time where the Black community is facing so much adversity and loss, the campus has taken a step in the right direction to provide healing spaces and further support.

Recent talks have focused on the significance of Juneteenth,violence towardBlack trans women and gender non-conforming individuals, andthe impact of monuments celebrating historical figures who enslaved people, supported the Confederacy and committed other racist actions.

In late July, conversations alsowerescheduled on Thursdays, focused on violence against Latino males and mass incarceration of males of color. The Friday talks have continued to focus primarily on issues impacting the Black community.

Abram Milton, counselor of CSUN University Counseling Services

Various campus organizations have partnered with the USU and UCS counselors to facilitate these discussions, including professors from the Department of Africana Studies and the International and Exchange Student Center.

The talks can also serve as an introduction to these issues for students who have not been exposed to them but want to learn more, said Abram Milton, a counselor with University Counseling Services who has co-facilitated many of the discussions.

We value those who are so supportive of social justice, because that shows strength within those numbers, Milton said. What I really would love are the ones who just will admit, I dont know, and just come because we all can learn from different perspectives.

The last Essential Talkof the summer was held on July 31 agathering focused on engaging the community with the movement beyond the summer.

Freddie Snchez, CUN USUs associate director of Marketing and Programs

The Essential Talks will continue in the Fall semester, Snchez said. Planning is underway to identify best way to move forward and have greater impact. The Fall semester will bring conversations around COVID-19-related violence toward the Asian community, the killing of soldierVanessa Guillnat Fort Hood, who had told family members that she had been sexually harassed on post, and other topics of discussion impacting the community.

We have a long way to go in the fight for social justice, equity and inclusion, and we are identifying how we can contribute to build positive connections on campus,Snchezsaid. CSUN is a diverse campus, and as such, we work to ensure equitable environments for historically underrepresented communities [so everyone can] feel like they belong on this campus.

Milton said it was encouraging that the conversations will continue, because after previous incidents that brought the focus onto racial justice and equality in recent years, attention has eventually shifted away. He said it is important for faculty members to recognize that students of color may have anxieties and issues concentrating because of these ongoing struggles and news events, and it would be helpful to reach out to these students and offer to listen.

Ive been very happy that the USU has said this is notgoing to be just a sprint, its going to be a marathon, Milton said. These issues didnt just happen overnight, so its not going to change overnight. There are many students that are going to be returning to CSUN, and I would imagine that they will be looking to [university leaders]to see how this topic is still being brought up. With a lot of students I can even speak for myself as a man of color it makes me feel good, that the school is at least acknowledging it.

Melina Abdullah, co-founder of the Los Angeles chapter of Black Lives Matter and a Cal State L.A. professor of Pan-African Studies

On June 12, MelinaAbdullah, the co-founder of the Los Angeles chapter of Black Lives Matter and a Cal State L.A. professor of Pan-African Studies, joined the CSUN Healing Space for two virtual conversations.The events were co-sponsored by theUSU,Black Student Success Council, Black Faculty and Staff Association, the CSUN Department of Africana Studies, CSUN Black House, Black Leadership Council and Black Student Union.

The first event was open to the campus community, including alumni. On Zoom, Abdullah spoke about the origins of the Black Lives Matter movement, which was born in2013 after George Zimmerman, the Florida man who fatally shot unarmed teenager Trayvon Martin, was acquitted.Later, Abdullah spoke to Black CSUN students about how to enhance student leadership on campus, andhow they can continue to use their voices to advocate for social change.

Black Lives Matter is a rallying cry. It is not a plea to white society, its a rallying cry, Abdullah said. Its saying that we need to make Black Lives Matter, we need to step into our sacred duty. And then we need to make demands of the existing system.

Holloway said it was important to hear from an influential Black leader at a time when many students are looking for guidance and support. She said she agreed with Abdullahs advice to keep pushing for change for equality.

We as the Black community must be persistent and steadfast in this fight; as it is the only way well see the fruit of our labors, Holloway said. We must continue to fight and remind each otherof the countless Black women, men and children who were not given the chance to advocate for themselves, and make sure their deaths were not in vain.

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