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O PINION
Racial Justice Threats under Trump
Civil rights
groups issue
joint statement
Seven leading civil rights or-
ganizations issued the following
statement Monday in response to
last week’s Presidential and Con-
gressional election:
“As civil rights leaders work-
ing for racial justice and economic
opportunity, we join much of the
nation in our apprehension about
the incoming administration. We
cannot ignore that the campaign
was characterized by divisive ra-
cial rhetoric, and has emboldened
white supremacists across the
country. The wave of hate crimes
sweeping the country, with perpe-
trators invoking the name of the
President-elect, is an ill omen, as
is the appointment of a chief strat-
egist with an appalling record of
promoting racial, anti-Semitic and
anti-woman rhetoric.”
“We were appalled by the calls
for intimidation of voters at urban
and rural polling places and will
not forget. Voter suppression had
a measurable effect on elections
in a number of states. While ra-
cial voter suppression was wide-
spread, voter suppression was
generational as well. Millennials,
as a multiracial demographic,
also were targeted by strict ID
laws and poll closings affecting
millions of youth, college and
high school students, as well as
young professionals. Addressing
this threat to our most vulnerable
citizens and our still young de-
mocracy will be a top priority for
our organizations in the coming
weeks and months.”
“We have a responsibility to
vigorously oppose any policies
or actions which are inconsistent
with our agenda or would serve to
turn back the clock on hard-fought
gains. America’s advance toward
diversity is not interrupted by the
results of Tuesday’s election.”
“We will continue to battle dis-
tent with equality and opportunity
for all.”
“Having earned a minority of
the popular vote, elected with the
support of only about a quarter
percent of the adult population,
the President-elect must recog-
nize the challenge of his extreme-
ly narrow appeal to the American
people. His obligation is to be
President for All Americans.”
“Other important races on the
ballot were significant for the ad-
and Congressional Asian Pacific
American Caucus.”
“We encourage every Ameri-
can to stand firm in the fight for
the protection of civil rights and
in opposition to racism and hate.”
The statement above was is-
sued jointly by the following (list-
ed alphabetically): Cornell Wil-
liam Brooks, president and chief
executive officer of the NAACP;
Melanie Campbell, president and
CEO, National Coalition on Black
We were appalled by the calls for intimidation of voters
at urban and rural polling places and will not forget. Voter
suppression had a measurable effect on elections in a number
of states. While racial voter suppression was widespread,
voter suppression was generational as well. Millennials, as a
multiracial demographic, also were targeted by strict ID laws
and poll closings affecting millions of youth, college and high
school students, as well as young professionals.
crimination, racial injustice and
barriers to equal opportunity as we
have done for decades. As always,
we will advocate for the next Pres-
ident of the United States to honor
and prioritize the Constitutional
guarantee of equal protection, due
process and full citizenship for ev-
ery American. The President-elect
needs to begin by repudiating hate
crimes and attacks undertaken in
his name and by announcing a
commitment to abandon the divi-
sive rhetoric and policy proposals
of his campaign that are inconsis-
vancement of the nation. While
Congress remains in control of
leaders with a demonstrated his-
tory of obstructionism, we take
encouragement from the election
of the most diverse Congress in
United States history. When the
115th United States Congress is
seated in January, it will include
100 women – notably Kamala
Harris from California, among
the 23 women elected to the
Senate — and the largest-ever
Congressional Black Caucus,
Congressional Hispanic Caucus
Civic Participation and Convener,
Black Women’s Roundtable; Kris-
ten Clarke, president and execu-
tive director, Lawyers’ Committee
for Civil Rights Under Law; Wade
Henderson, president and CEO,
Leadership Conference on Civil
and Human Rights; Sherrilyn If-
ill, president and director-coun-
sel of the NAACP Legal Defense
and Educational Fund; Marc H.
Morial, president and CEO, Na-
tional Urban League; The Rev. Al
Sharpton, founder and president,
National Action Network.
Allow for a Peaceful Transition of Power
Country shines
brighter than the
ugliness of the
election
c ornell W illiAM b rooks
“Even as we extend our con-
gratulations to President-Elect
Donald J. Trump, the NAACP,
as America’s oldest and largest
civil rights organization, must
bluntly note that the 2016 cam-
paign has regularized racism,
standardized
anti-Semitism,
de-exceptionalized xenopho-
bia and mainstreamed misogyny.
Voter suppression, as the courts
have declared, has too become
rampant and routine.
From the day that General
George Washington accepted
by
the people’s charge to become
their first commander-in-chief,
to the day that we elected Barack
Obama as our country’s first Af-
rican-American president, Amer-
ica has come together to ensure a
peaceful transition of power. This
most recent pres-
idential election
must meet this
distinctly Amer-
ican
standard.
President-Elect
Trump’s victory
speech avoided a
divisive tone and
thus invoked this
standard.
During this critical period of
transition, we are now calling
upon the next president to speak
and act with the moral clarity nec-
essary to silence the dog-whistle
racial politics that have charac-
terized recent months and have
left many of our fellow citizens
snarling at one another in anger
and even whimpering in fear. The
more than 120 million Americans
who cast ballots in this election –
as well as the more than 100 mil-
lion more eligible voters who de-
clined to vote – deserve no less.
The NAACP stands ready to
work with a new administration
to realize the racial justice con-
cerns that not only compelled
millions of people to go to the
polls on Election Day but also
inspired millions to protest in
the streets in the preceding days
and months. Depending upon the
new administration’s fidelity to
America’s ideals of liberty and
the NAACP’s agenda for justice,
we will either be at its side or in
its face. We will not let this elec-
tion distract or dissuade us; the
NAACP will continue to stand
strong at the frontlines, advocat-
ing for voting rights, criminal
justice reform and equality for
all.
This election comes as a sur-
prise to many, an affirmation to
some and a rejection to others,
and yet it is also a defining mo-
ment for the NAACP and the
nation. Let us come together as
a country – come together with
the principled and practical unity
that the needs of our nation and
the need to govern demand.
Our beauty as a country shines
brighter than the ugliness of this
election. It is up to all of us to re-
veal the beauty of who we are as
a people as we yet see the possi-
bilities of the nation we can be-
come.”
Cornell William Brooks is na-
tional president of the NAACP.