NAACP Pres.: Trump’s Miss. Visit ‘in No Way Whitewashes His Record on Civil Rights’

‘This is a president who supports a voter fraud commission which perpetuates the myth of voter fraud while turning a blind eye to voter suppression’

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BROOKS: "Very difficult to digest. But this was not a matter of political miscalculation. We need to be very clear here. Listen to the president’s remarks. All the verbs were in the past tense. In terms of civil rights struggles in the past. All the nouns were referred to the civil rights struggles of the past and did not speak to the current civil rights struggles in which this president stands against those who stand for civil rights. Note that when President Obama went to Selma a few years ago, he stood beside John Lewis, as opposed to President Trump being boycotted by John Lewis in Jackson today. So this is not a matter of political miscalculation. In fact, what the president is trying to do is to whitewash his civil rights record. His civil rights record is really not a matter of not doing — I should say, doing too little. Or not going fast enough. But doing too much, going in the wrong direction. This is a president whose attorney general stands against the use of consent degrees to prevent police brutality and protect civilians from police misconduct. This is a president who supports a voter fraud commission which perpetuates the myth of voter fraud while turning a blind eye to voter suppression. This is a president, on a regular and re curing basis, uses language and rhetoric and political speech — I should say political tweets to divide Americans. To refer to Mexicans as rapists. To refer to NFL players as sons of Bs, to demonize and diminish the legacy of black women. And so the point being here is his visit to Mississippi does in no way obliterates, in no way whitewashes his record on civil rights which is precisely why people are so offended by his trip to the museum."

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