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DonViejo

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Thu Jan 26, 2017, 08:47 PM Jan 2017

NAACP president slams Trump: Only place youll find fraudulent ballots are beside the fake birth...

Source: RawStory


NAACP president slams Trump: ‘Only place you’ll find fraudulent ballots are beside the fake birth certificate’

SARAH K. BURRIS
26 JAN 2017 AT 19:20 ET

NAACP president Cornell Williams Brooks clarified that he’s not threatening President Donald Trump but he promised that people of color will rise up to save their voting rights.

CNN host Wolf Blitzer showed Brooks’ tweet from Brooks saying that the new president will “meet unrelenting resistance:”

Cornell Wm. Brooks ✔
@CornellWBrooks

Dear #POTUS, I assure you, in the memory of @NAACP martyrs, any exec. order suppressing votes will meet unrelenting #resistance. @AriBerman

8:20 PM - 25 Jan 2017
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Blitzer asked Brooks if it was a threat.

“No threat at all,” Brooks clarified. “It is, in fact, a promise and prediction. We have seen in the course of this last election unrelenting voter suppression. We have seen our rights denied as Americans, particularly seniors, African-Americans, Latinos, and younger people. And so, if the president insists upon conducting an investigation into voter fraud, as a pretext for voter suppression, the NAACP along with millions of Americans of every hue and heritage will resist. We will push back. We have, in the course of this campaign, in terms of 10 months and no less than ten court victories against voter suppression.”



Read more: http://www.rawstory.com/2017/01/naacp-president-slams-trump-only-place-youll-find-fraudulent-ballots-are-beside-the-fake-birth-certificate/
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NAACP president slams Trump: Only place youll find fraudulent ballots are beside the fake birth... (Original Post) DonViejo Jan 2017 OP
If he gets his choice of Supreme court justices, voting rights are dead. alfredo Jan 2017 #1
No, not dead but it will be extremely difficult to get justice. cstanleytech Jan 2017 #2
BTW, look for the Evan McMillan anti Trump ad. alfredo Jan 2017 #3
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