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Home Front: Culture Wars
Separatist NAACP plans separate event as POTUS heads to civil rights museum
2017-12-09
[The Hill] The NAACP said Friday night that it would hold a separate event in Mississippi after President Trump announced he would attend a civil rights museum opening there this weekend.

NAACP head Derrick Johnson, Jackson Mayor Chokwe Lumumba (D) and Rep. Bennie Thompson (D-Miss.) are set to hold a press conference in Jackson, Miss., on Saturday morning.

The civil rights advocates said their event was meant "to pay homage and recognition to those individuals who have dedicated their lives to the civil and human rights of Mississippians minus the presence of President Donald Trump."

Johnson and Rep. John Lewis (D-Ga.) announced this week that they would not attend the opening event for the Mississippi Civil Rights Museum after Trump said he would go.

"It’s going to be very difficult for me to be there and be on the same platform with him," Lewis told the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.

"I think his presence would make a mockery of everything that people tried to do to redeem the soul of America and to make this country better," he added.

White House spokesman Raj Shah told reporters aboard Air Force One en route to a campaign rally in Florida on Friday night that Trump's remarks at the museum will emphasize unity.
Posted by:Besoeker

#9  NCAA is the new Jim Crow. Overseers.

FIFY
Posted by: CrazyFool   2017-12-09 22:37  

#8  NCAA is the new Jim Crow.
Posted by: newc   2017-12-09 17:59  

#7  NAACP - but don't call the colored, its racist.
Posted by: Procopius2k   2017-12-09 14:23  

#6  If you ain't trying to keep the man down so they can line their pockets, they have no need of you and you are racist.
Posted by: DarthVader   2017-12-09 12:08  

#5  Great! So there'll be some extra tickets!
Posted by: Skidmark   2017-12-09 09:56  

#4  I grew up with the civil rights movement. My parents were of the firm belief that equal rights and responsibilities were the answer to any question.

The NAACP made sense in the '50s & '60s, since the '70s they have become less and less needed and more and more hurtful.

I guess that they think blacks have their best chances back on the plantation run by whites of the Democrat persuasion.
Posted by: AlanC   2017-12-09 09:06  

#3  Mumble-moufed talking penis John Lewis hasn't done shit to help blacks in 50 years. He could start by resigning
Posted by: Frank G   2017-12-09 07:02  

#2  naacp democrat plantation union. Brain dead drones doing the only thing their masters require. The results can be seen everywhere these days. They feed on their own. The truth does not set them free. They choose a path of failure with bothers in arms. Each day they seem to have more in common with isis than Americans.
Posted by: Dale   2017-12-09 06:58  

#1  White House spokesman Raj Shah told reporters aboard Air Force One en route to a campaign rally in Florida on Friday night that Trump's remarks at the museum will emphasize unity.

The personal decision to celebrate diversity, is adverse to the divine ideal of "unity." There in my opinion, lies the problem.
Posted by: Besoeker   2017-12-09 04:01  

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