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Backlash against NAACP travel advisory calling Florida ‘hostile’ to African Americans as it’s revealed the civil rights group’s chairman lives in Tampa

Florida Republicans are leading the backlash against the NAACP’s travel advisory warning black Americans not to visit their state, despite the fact the civil rights group’s own chairman lives there.

Leon W. Russell, 73, has lived in Florida for his entire adult life after growing up in Virginia. Today, he lives in a two-bedroom home in north Tampa.

Russell however joined calls for African Americans to boycott the state yesterday.

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