Within the spirit of Rosa Parks, typically, as Black folks, we simply must look a white individual straight within the face and say, “Nah.”
In line with NPR, the Nationwide Affiliation for the Development of Coloured Folks gave a sitting president the Dikembe Mutombo finger. For 116 years, the NAACP has prolonged their hand to the then-current president ostensibly to bend his ear about issues that concern the Black group within the hopes {that a} dialogue will affect coverage. Sadly, Trump doesn’t have the mandatory empathy to be satisfied to provide a rattling about Black people and thus, the group won’t be inviting him to their nationwide convention this 12 months.
NAACP President Derrick Johnson held a press convention on Monday, June 16, in Charlotte, N.C., the place made the announcement and defined why the choice was made.
“Donald Trump is attacking our democracy and our civil rights…The president has signed unconstitutional govt orders to oppress voters and undo federal civil rights protections,” Johnson stated. “… he regularly undermines each pillar of our democracy to make himself extra highly effective and to personally profit from the U.S. authorities.”
Although Trump has declined the earlier invitations to the historic Black area, he nonetheless despatched one in every of his bootlickers named Harrison Fields (oh, the irony of that final title…) out to behave faux offended that he wasn’t prolonged an invitation this 12 months.
“The NAACP isn’t advancing something however hate and division, whereas the President is concentrated on uniting our nation, bettering our financial system, securing our borders, and establishing peace throughout the globe,” White Home spokesperson Harrison Fields stated in an announcement to NPR. “This is similar imaginative and prescient for America {that a} document variety of Black People supported within the resounding reelection of President Trump.”
A “document quantity” of misplaced and contrarian Negroes giving up their dignity to forged a vote for a actuality TV sport present host on no account represents the wants and needs of the Black group en masse.
