MSNBC PoliticsNation host Al Sharpton joined Morning Joe on Thursday to recap his Wednesday self-importance protest in opposition to Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’s training insurance policies the place he confirmed his standard lack of nuance and good religion, by evaluating DeSantis to those that perpetuated slavery and segregation.

Recalling Wednesday’s occasions, Sharpton claimed to be shocked that individuals who agree with him, agree with him, “Effectively, what I realized is that persons are genuinely incensed by what the governor’s doing as a result of for the governor and the Faculty Board to determine, to say what half of black historical past is comfy to Floridians, principally white Floridians, is as offensive as you will get.”

Reaching for regardless of the slavery equal of Godwin’s legislation is, Sharpton continued:

The place you could keep in mind one among the best methods of dehumanizing blacks in slavery was it was in opposition to the legislation for us to learn and write after which it was in opposition to the legislation for whites to show us. So, training was at all times one thing we at all times noticed as our key to popping out of being enslaved. Due to our capacity to learn and white. Now you are going to restrict what we will learn and white in AP courses? Like, folks will not be capable of deal with watching actions just like the Civil Rights Motion, just like the Black Lives Matter motion, like LGBTQ rights, and it isn’t to sentence the nation. It is to point out how the nation advanced. 

At this level it will’ve behooved Sharpton to quote the place in Florida legislation it forbids educating in regards to the Civil Rights Motion and if Sharpton thinks not uncritically his speaking factors is like slavery, then it’s no surprise “we had no engagement” from DeSantis’s workplace.

After Sharpton over-emphasized his personal significance by hilariously claiming “each main pastor from all over Florida” was on the protest, he continued, “He’s taking a look at now, not taking a look at historical past. He needs to be Child Trump. He’ll use race like Trump did.”

Following some crosstalk from the desk about “Child Trump” being a greater identify for DeSantis than “Meatball Ron,” Sharpton received bizarre, “He’s a miniature Trump attempting to develop up, be like daddy, and daddy spanks him they usually’re having a little inside combat and household combat.”

Shifting from bizarre again to the outrageous, Sharpton subsequent in contrast DeSantis to a segregationist, “If he can get away with this and cement this in Florida, it would be utilized in different states. As a result of he’s principally attempting to do a state’s rights motion. ‘We’ll determine on this state who will get an abortion, we determine on this state how training goes’ and the entire Civil Rights Motion was in opposition to states’ rights. We would have liked federal safety in opposition to state segregating us.”

No, the Civil Rights Motion was in opposition to Jim Crow and violations of the Fourteenth Modification, not the Tenth Modification per se, however such statements solely function extra proof within the case for DeSantis’s reforms.

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MSNBC Morning Joe

2/16/2023

6:59 AM ET

AL SHARPTON: Effectively, what I realized is that persons are genuinely incensed by what the governor’s doing as a result of for the governor and the Faculty Board to determine, to say what half of black historical past is comfy to Floridians, principally white Floridians, is as offensive as you will get. 

And so they’re not limiting simply to black research, however LGBTQ rights in addition to ladies and we’re speaking about — and also you have Meacham right here, we’re speaking a few interval the place we’ve got historical past of this. 

The place you could keep in mind one among the best methods of dehumanizing blacks in slavery was it was in opposition to the legislation for us to learn and write after which it was in opposition to the legislation for whites to show us. So, training was at all times one thing we at all times noticed as our key to—

MIKA BRZEZINSK: Sure. 

SHARPTON: –coming out of being enslaved. Due to our capacity to learn and white. Now you are going to restrict what we will learn and white in AP courses? Like, folks will not be capable of deal with watching actions just like the Civil Rights Motion, just like the Black Lives Matter motion, like LGBTQ rights, and it isn’t to sentence the nation. It is to point out how the nation advanced. 

We have to know we went from slavery to electing Barack Obama and to attempt to eradicate that, I suppose, is un-American, as a lot as it’s racist. 

JONATHAN LEMIRE: So, Reverend Sharpton, I am going to go away the significance of the historical past to Jon Meacham. However the politics of it. Two elements, first, did you might have any engagement from Governor DeSantis’s workplace yesterday within the wake of this occasion after which how involved are you that different states would possibly comply with his lead? 

SHARPTON: No, we had no engagement, and there was a pair thousand folks there, each elected official nearly within the Black Caucus and Latinos within the state legislature there. And each main pastor from all over Florida. No engagement. Wasn’t on the lookout for it. 

As a result of I feel he’s taking part in petty politics, because the social thinker Joe Scarborough says, he’s a day dealer. He’s taking a look at now, not taking a look at historical past. He needs to be Child Trump. He’ll use race like Trump did. Do not forget, the entry of Donald Trump into presidential politics was birtherism–

LEMIRE: Oh yeah.

SHARPTON: — and he Child Trump, “I’m going to make use of this in opposition to blacks. I’m going to make use of this in opposition to migrants—”

BRZEZINSKI: That could be higher than Meatball.

LEMIRE: Meatball Ron.

SHARPTON: Yeah that, Child Trump suits him. 

BRZEZINSKI: Yeah. Yeah.

SHARPTON: He’s a miniature Trump attempting to develop up, be like daddy, and daddy spanks him they usually’re having a little inside combat and household fight–

BRZEZINSKI: Oh my gosh.

SHARPTON: — however they’re the identical factor and I feel the worry is what you raised. 

If he can get away with this and cement this in Florida, it would be utilized in different states. As a result of he’s principally attempting to do a state’s rights motion. “We’ll determine on this state–

LEMIRE: Yeah.

SHARPTON: — who will get an abortion, we determine on this state how training goes and the entire Civil Rights Motion was in opposition to states’ rights. We would have liked federal safety in opposition to state segregating us.