The NAACP announced Monday the group will not invite President Donald Trump to its national convention next month in Charlotte, North Carolina, the first time the prominent civil rights organization has opted to exclude a sitting president in its 116-year history.
NAACP President Derrick Johnson announced the move at an afternoon press conference, accusing Trump of working against its mission.
“This has nothing to do with political party,” Johnson said in a statement. “Our mission is to advance civil rights, and the current president has made clear that his mission is to eliminate civil rights.”
As it should be. They will lock you up, deport you, trod on your rights unless you’re rich or powerful or pose a threat.
Politeness should have gone out the window long ago.
He hates anyone who isn’t white
It’s right that he’s not invited. He has quite a history of vicious racism
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Biden too since the fat, orange monkey just can’t get over losing the 2020 election to him.
Not from the USA so don’t know much about the inner political situation, but from the outside point of view it was Obama who started the tradition to kiss Putin’s ass.
Damn,
You’re consistent, I’ll give you that
You’re wrong, yet again.
Poor trolling. I’m sure you could put in some more effort
Obama never kissed Putin’s ass?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_reset
Here, read something about your country’s history. It wasn’t that long ago.
I’m no yank
You’re always tedious and odious, and I don’t like you
You can add add me to the ignore list. Lemmy has this functionality. Very convenient.
Thanks for reminder! See ya next profile, lol
Attempted diplomacy isn’t the same as being Putin’s cockholster.
You should have ended at “Not from the USA so don’t know much about the inner political situation”.
It was cocksucking and nothing more. And next year Putin, being sure that the USA won’t object, attacked Ukraine.
Exclusion will annoy him more than criticism.
Good. It’s the only logical decision
Man… i had someone ask subreddit suggestions last night like wtf. Told them about lemmy and all but also pointed out why reddit might still be usefull but the way it is, is unhealthy. I pointed to r/conservative as one of many examples and saw this news sooner. The comments, jfc they just dont care, they think it’s funny the NAACP has stooped so low, and the sheer lack of post about the parade was even more telling.
The fact that they invited Nixon, Reagan, Bush 1 & 2, and even Trump the first time around is appalling.
Giving those you’re fighting against an opportunity to publicly embarrass themselves can have many advantages. It also paints you as a group who is open to a good faith discussion about topics you know you disagree with these people on, which helps to gain more general public support for your causes.
It also gives them legitimacy and lets them pretend they aren’t horrible racists.
I think the fact that they were sitting presidents is what gave them the most legitimacy. Fighting against racism usually means engaging in various ways with racists, so I simply disagree.
The office of the presidency isn’t inherently legitimate, it gets its legitimacy because civil society groups like the NAACP give it legitimacy.
But, also? Why didn’t they invite Trump this time?
