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Expressions of sympathy and support from Jacksonville’s political leadership in the aftermath of the Orlando Pulse nightclub shooting massacre are falling flat with North Florida’s LGBT community.
“It was a bias-motivated attack against a gay bar to kill LGBT people,” said Jacksonville Coalition for Equality spokesman Jimmy Midyette.
“When leaders neuter expressions of sympathy of that fact – the fact that the shooter went to kill the people he hated – it is feckless and dehumanizing. It continues the work of the shooter to silence our voices and to leave us fearful and alone in the dark. Why is that so…
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