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Illinois civil rights leader urged to resign after speech calling migrants 'savages'

Teresa Haley, the state conference president of the Illinois NAACP, is facing calls to resign after disparaging remarks about migrants that her peers are calling "hate speech" during a Zoom leadership meeting, reported The Daily Beast on Wednesday.

“The comments came up when some of the Chicago-based presidents started to talk about the migrant crisis, the funding that was going into neighborhoods, and they had differing opinions from my own. It's OK to have differing opinions,” DuPage County NAACP leader Patrick Watson told Brooke Leigh Howard. “They had different opinions about some of the resources that were going to the community, that resources weren't going towards individuals within the community, even though those resources are coming from different sources. …That's okay to have a different opinion. But President Haley engaged in what I would call absolute hate speech.”

A video of the incident, provided to the Beast, showed Haley saying, “The busloads are coming, and we’re seeing families on the street,” and that migrants receive far more care and resources than the homeless Black population in Illinois. “But these immigrants we got coming over here, they been raping people, they been breaking into homes. They’re like savages as well. They don’t speak the language, and they look at us like we’re crazy because we were the only people in America who were brought over here against our wills and were slaves, sold into slavery."

Gov. J.B. Pritzker has also condemned the remarks, calling on Haley to issue an apology.

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For her part, Haley outright denies that she even made the remarks shown in the video, telling ABC 7 Chicago from her vacation in Dubai that, “With AI, anything is possible.”

The recent surge in migrants has resulted in cities all over the country facing an influx of people who need shelter and resources, often straining local governments. Republicans are demanding that changes to asylum laws be part of an aid package to Israel and Ukraine, leading to high-stakes talks with little time before the holidays to get a deal finalized.

NAACP's Florida travel advisory meant to galvanize Black voters against DeSantis: report

This week, the NAACP issued a travel advisory for Black people considering a visit or a move to the state of Florida, claiming that the state's policies are "openly" hostile to people of color and LGBTQ Americans. But according to NAACP national board of directors chairman Leon W. Russell, the advisory was mainly designed to galvanize Black voters against Gov. Ron DeSantis, NBC News reported.

“Let me be clear: We’re not calling for a boycott or a travel ban,” said Russell, who lives in Tampa. “We’re saying to Black people who come to the state or who are thinking about coming to the state that you need to be aware of what’s going on here and you need to think about how you are going to be impacted by this hate and cruelty that is being generated. You need to consider whether or not you’re going to be safe.”

The NAACP's Fort Lauderdale/Broward Branch president said the advisory is already having its intended effect.

“Since the travel advisory, our phones have been blowing up with people on the ground wanting to know more details about why the travel advisory and the policies that impact them,” Marsha Ellison reportedly said. “So, this is going to be quite effective.”

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“If you are a part of any of these communities — Black, Latino, LGBTQ — or if you stand in support of these communities, you need to work with us to think about a proactive civic engagement policy because this, at the end of the day, is about politics,” Russell said.

Russell called on Black men, specifically. “You have to get out and vote. You have to encourage your brothers to get out and vote because policies will kill you if you don’t,” he added.

Read the full article over at NBC News.

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As you no doubt are aware, there's been a dust-up as of late due to the NAACP rearing up and saying what's obvious, which is there are whole buncha racists in the Tea Party movement. In perhaps the weakest effort in the entire history of efforts to disprove a claim, spokesperson for the Tea Party Express Mark Williams put up a "satirical" letter in response. He took it down after it was revealed that this was some racist shit, but Ta-Nehisi has reprinted the whole thing for our collective edification. Here are some samples:

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Iowa: head of local NAACP champions anti-gay gubernatorial candidate for marriage repeal promise

Rev. Keith A. Ratliff, Sr., pastor of the Maple Street Missionary Baptist Church in Des Moines, Iowa has another duty - head of the local NAACP chapter. The registered Democrat has announced that he supports Republican gubernatorial candidate Bob Vander Plaats. Why? Because Vander Plaats says it's his goal to pass an executive order to halt marriage equality in Iowa. That's a reach beyond his powers as Governor, but there you have it. Via On Top:

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All posts tagged "naacp"

Illinois civil rights leader urged to resign after speech calling migrants 'savages'

NAACP's Florida travel advisory meant to galvanize Black voters against DeSantis: report

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Iowa: head of local NAACP champions anti-gay gubernatorial candidate for marriage repeal promise