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NAACP Gained’t Invite Donald Trump To Nationwide Convention


Former President Donald Trump Travels To Atlanta, Georgia
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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 accordance with NPR, the Nationwide Affiliation for the Development of Coloured Individuals 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 neighborhood within the hopes {that a} dialogue will affect coverage. Sadly, Trump doesn’t have the required empathy to be satisfied to present a rattling about Black people and thus, the group is not going to be inviting him to their nationwide convention this yr.

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 considered one of his bootlickers named Harrison Fields (oh, the irony of that final identify…) out to behave pretend offended that he wasn’t prolonged an invitation this yr.

“The NAACP isn’t advancing something however hate and division, whereas the President is concentrated on uniting our nation, enhancing our economic system, securing our borders, and establishing peace throughout the globe,” White Home spokesperson Harrison Fields stated in a press release 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 solid a vote for a actuality TV sport present host not at all represents the wants and wishes of the Black neighborhood en masse.



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