Cheers and Jeers: Tuesday

From the GREAT STATE OF MAINE…

Energize An Ally Tuesday

With Trump's selection of dyed-in-the-white-sheet racist Jeff Sessions, who never met a "coloreds only" drinking fountain he didn’t wish was still functional, as attorney general, civil rights groups need all the help they can get to put up a strong resistance. Stop-and-frisk on a national scale, increased voter suppression and harsher prison sentences are just the Cliff's Notes version of what Sessions and his shadow KKKabinet (David Duke says hey, y'all) have in store. It's going to be ugly. That's why we're picking the NAACP as today's C&J Energize An Ally organization. Says president Cornell William Brooks:

Senator Sessions’ record suggests that he will carry on an old, ugly legacy in this country’s history when civil rights for African-Americans, women and minorities were not regarded as core American values. While Lady Justice may be said to be blind, we need an Attorney General with 20-20 vision in seeing racial injustice. Whether Senator Sessions, with decades of failing grades on the NAACP’s report card, possesses a racial vision and commitment to justice is in serious question.

We need to move forward, not backward. Our nation needs federal action to protect basic voting rights, to reform outrageous abuses and racial profiling by police departments in Ferguson, Baltimore, Chicago and across the country, and to protect rights for LGBT Americans and other vulnerable populations in an era of rising hate and in the face of an administration threatening to wage war on basic civil liberties.

Through Congress, our membership and by every means available, the NAACP will continue to stand against the regressive and intolerant views that Senator Sessions espouses.

If you're able and willing, here’s the NAACP’s donation page and the membership page. As you consider that, I have good news and bad news. The good news is, Attorney General Sessions won’t, like John Ashcroft, be throwing a tarp over the Spirit of Justice statue to cover up the boobs. The bad news is, I won’t be surprised if he throws a tarp over the Martin Luther King, Jr, statue to cover up the Martin Luther King, Jr.

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