Alleged FAMU Hazing Homicide Stirs Florida's Tense Racial Past

Florida Governor Rick Scott didn't exactly endear himself to the African–American community earlier this year when he told black state legislators, "I grew up probably in the same situation as you guys. I started school in public housing. My dad had a sixth–grade education." And Scott did it again last Thursday while talking to black students who were protesting his call to suspend the president of Florida A&M University, the state's only publicly funded historically black college, until officials finish an investigation into last month's alleged hazing homicide of a FAMU marching band member. "I come," the conservative multimillionaire Governor felt compelled to remind them, "from public housing."

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