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NAACP Leaders Arrested Protesting Super-Not-Racist Jeff Sessions, For No Reason At All!
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Donald Trump very disappointed no stretchers were involved
Protesters from the NAACP were arrested Tuesday evening after holding a day-long sit-in at the Alabama offices of Sen. Jeff Sessions, demanding he withdraw his name from nomination as Donald Trumps attorney general. The protesters seemed to be under the impression that Sen. Sessions has hostile attitudes toward civil rights and voting rights, even though Sessions is quite certain hes as fair-minded as they come. Six of the protesters were arrested for trespassing, according to AL.com, including the groups national President and CEO Cornell William Brooks, Alabama State Conference President Bernard Simelton, and Lizetta McConnell, head of the NAACPs Mobile branch.
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Team Of Evils: Jeff Sessions Was Too Racist To Be A Federal Judge, But He Could Be Your Next Attorney General!
The protest started with about 30 people staging a sit-in at Sessionss office in Mobile to call attention to the senators dismal record on civil and voting rights, which was bad enough that when he was appointed to a federal judgeship in 1986, the Republican-led Senate Judiciary Committee rejected his nomination. Apparently what was too racist in the politically correct days of the Reagan years is now no longer such a problem for Republicans.
In a statement issued during the sit-in, Brooks said,
As a matter of conscience and conviction, we can neither be mute nor mumble our opposition to Sen. Jefferson Beauregard Sessions becoming attorney general of the United States [
] Sen. Sessions has callously ignored the reality of voter suppression but zealously prosecuted innocent civil rights leaders on trumped up charges of voter fraud. As an opponent of the vote, he cant be trusted to be the chief law enforcement officer for voting rights.
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Read more at http://wonkette.com/610086/naacp-leaders-arrested-protesting-super-not-racist-jeff-sessions-for-no-reason-at-all#44qbQp7uuOcXDa6E.99
underthematrix
(5,811 posts)Jeff Sessions should NOT be a nominee for AG
niyad
(113,612 posts)but we are now living in bizarro world, up is down, black is white, racists can be AG
Eliot Rosewater
(31,130 posts)in white supremacy, then you should vote for him.
All the insane, dangerous, destructive shit the GOP and Trump will do is in one category, this in another.
Dont expect the successes of 50 years to be ignored. They wont be.