'Mr. President, we dont need you in Mississippi.' Protests as Trump speaks at new civil rights muse

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'Mr. President, we don’t need you in Mississippi.' Protests as Trump speaks at new civil rights museum

Residents greeted the arrival of President Trump in the Mississippi capital Saturday with protests as he came to speak at the opening of a major civil rights museum.

The Mississippi Civil Rights Museum and a companion state history museum will open their doors in the afternoon after a celebration that attracted more than a thousand people from around the country, including civil rights veterans as well as Gov. Phil Bryant.

But after the White House announced this week that Trump would visit the museum and give an address at its dedication, a growing number of attendees and residents said they would boycott the event.

They include Rep. John Lewis, a Georgia Democrat who was a prominent civil rights activist; Rep. Bennie Thompson; former Gov. Ray Mabus; Jackson Mayor Chokwe Antar Lumumba; and members of the National Assn. for the Advancement of Colored People.

http://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-trump-civil-rights-museum-20171209-story.html

[Cattledog]

1. 75% of attendees were white.

[Solly Mack]

2. It was an insult to everything and everyone the museum is supposed to represent to invite Trump.