Let us cheer Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity for standing up to bigotry.

The nation’s oldest Black fraternity has announced it will find another major city in another state for its 2025 convention rather than holding it in Orlando, Fla.

The reason: To protest what it described as Gov. Ron DeSantis’ “harmful, racist and insensitive policies” that have hit hard at Black people in the state.

Alpha Phi Alpha’s conventions draw up to 6,000 people and have a $4.6 million economic impact on the host city.

As our readers know, we recently condemned Gov. DeSantis’ support for teaching Florida’s children that slavery was a significant job training program for Black people, and we are proud that Alpha Phi Alpha has voted with its dollars.

The fraternity’s action comes just months after the NAACP and other civil rights groups issued a spring travel advisory to urge tourists and other visitors to avoid the state in response to new state laws that those groups said are hostile to people of color and members of the LGBTQ+ community.

Though the Rev. Jesse Jackson has retired from the Rainbow/ Push Coalition he created, we know he must be beaming over the growing efforts to push back against the governor and his ilk.

He was long one of the most powerful voices in the country in speaking out against racism and discrimination, and he must be happy that others are stepping up into that role in his stead.

We also are pleased that Black Republicans, including Florida Congressman Byron Donalds and U.S. Sen. Tim Scott of South Carolina, as well as the Black Conservative Federation, are joining the criticism of Gov. DeSantis’ support of Florida education standards portraying slavery as a job development program.

“The part that is wrong needs to adjusted,” Congressman Donalds has said in speaking out against the governor’s sunshine view of human bondage.

This issue is not partisan. It speaks to the American ideal that everyone can have a place in this country.

We are disappointed that so many who did not have enslaved ancestors are keeping mum. In his famed 1963 “Letter from Birmingham Jail,” Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. expressed his concern that white religious leaders were sitting on the sideline urging caution when the times demanded their participation.

Silence is considered consent.

Congressman Donalds has shown that he does not support Florida’s portrayal of slavery by speaking out. Many others need to do so, including our governor, Glenn A. Youngkin, and lieutenant governor, Winsome L. Sears.

We hope we will soon have reason to applaud many more for their decency and courage in standing up for what is right.