One reported hate crime in 2021. 161 in 2022. 249 in 2023. Florida's escalation is one of the most dramatic in this series. Anti-Black incidents lead the cumulative data at 270. Anti-Jewish at 199 — nearly doubled in a single year in a state with one of the largest Jewish populations in the country. A white supremacist killed three Black people at a Jacksonville Dollar General and left a manifesto — significant enough that the Attorney General personally traveled to Florida. A man drove his truck at six Black men surveying land near the 1923 Rosewood Massacre site and came within inches of striking one of them. A Florida man was sentenced to 25 years for conspiring to bomb a synagogue. Mosque bomb threats. Cross burnings. Vehicular attacks. A postal worker attacked for wearing a hijab. And Florida just eliminated its only majority-Black congressional district the same day the Supreme Court gutted the Voting Rights Act. The hate crime data and the political decisions are not separate stories. They come from the same environment. They target the same communities. Let's have this conversation.

00:00 — Disclaimer01:32 — Introduction02:34 — Thesis: The hate crime data and the political landscape of Florida are not separate stories — they are the same story about who is being targeted and who is being left without protection04:38 — Opening: August 26, 2023 — Jacksonville, Florida — three Black people killed at a Dollar General by a white supremacist who left a manifesto08:00 — Background: The national baseline, Florida's dramatic three-year escalation, and the breadth of communities being targeted12:23 — The Data: Anti-Black at 270, Anti-Jewish at 199, the Rosewood site attack, the synagogue plot, the mosque threats, the axe handle, the cross burning, the vehicular attack, the hijab assault19:31 — Personal Thoughts: The Rosewood Massacre happened in 1923 — and in 2022 a man drove a truck at Black men on the same ground. The history did not stay in 1923.23:40 — Close: Know the numbers, know the cases, know the names. Georgia is next.

DOJ Hate Crimes State Data — justice.gov/hatecrimes/state-data/florida

FBI Crime Data Explorer — cde.ucr.cjis.gov

FBI Jacksonville — fbi.gov/contact-us/field-offices/jacksonville

SPLC — splcenter.org

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