Posted on 11/18/2016 3:00:14 PM PST by mandaladon
President-elect Donald Trump's choices for leadership posts threaten national unity and promise to turn back the clock on progress for racial, religious and sexual minorities, civil rights leaders and others said Friday after his nomination of Sen. Jeff Sessions for attorney general.
Comments attributed to Trump's picks, also including alt-right architect Stephen Bannon as senior adviser and chief strategist and former Army Lt. Michael Flynn as national security adviser, serve to embolden everyday Americans to lash out at members of minority groups, they said.
Sessions, of Alabama, was denied a federal judgeship in 1986 after hearings in which he was accused of making racially charged remarks as a U.S. attorney. According to transcripts, Sessions was accused, among other things, of joking that he thought the Ku Klux Klan "was OK" until he learned they smoked marijuana, and of calling a black assistant U.S. attorney "boy." During the hearing, Sessions denied making some of the comments and said others were jokes taken out of context.
"Every American should be concerned about the direction of the U.S. Department of Justice and oppose any nominee who threatens to turn back the clock on civil rights by 50 years," said National Urban League President Marc Morial.
Bannon led the Breitbart website, which has widely condemned as racist, sexist and anti-Semitic. In a 2011 radio interview, he said conservative women infuriated liberals because they "would be pro-family, they would have husbands, they would love their children," contrasting that against a slur for lesbians.
Trump campaign manager Kellyanne Conway has called the accusations against Bannon "very unfair."
Lennie Gerber, an 80-year-old resident of High Point, North Carolina, who led the fight against her state's ban on same-sex marriage, said she worried Trump's appointments will further incite such sentiments among the public.
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More fake news.
LOL!!!!!
Winnnnnniiiiinnnnnggggggg!!!!!
INJUSTICE TO AMERICA HAS BEEN AT LEAST THE LAST 8 YEARS....MORE IF YOU ADD BUSH AND PICKLES HUSBAND.
Yahoo has news? I thought they only had “one incrdible awesome tip to lose your belly fat”?
...Wonder why??...
The rules are ALWAYS different for Democrats. No matter what the issue is. Isn’t that obvious? It is constant and never changing. I am to the point that they make me nauseated.
Obama is rubbing his hands with glee. He’s going to be fabulously wealthy “organizing” these angry groups.
The rules have changed. No more PC. The most competent person gets hired. End of story.
When I first read it, I read:
Trump’s Staff Picks “Alarm Minorities”
I wondered what an “Alarm Minority” was.
Breaking News!
Media running its sump in effort to further enraged the permanently enraged to further totalitarian agenda supported by the media in obedience to their DNC (Soros) masters.
Part of me weeps for those foolish enough to believe there’s any peaceful solution to the infestation of dedicated and entrenched domestic enemy.
Best. Appointments. Ever.
Truly, ever.
98% couldn’t name the Speaker of The House, yet they’re alarmed by Jeff Sessions? I call BS on this story.
What, you mean the most qualified person for the job has to be a minority? Thats racist.
They’re only alarmed be Sessions because they’ve been TOLD (via FB &/or Twitter) to be alarmed by Sessions.
Well dont ya know when whites get offended the media says NOTHING because all white people are evil don’t ya know..just watch what happens when Trump nominates Sheriff Clarke..the media will say he is not a real black man
Seems the majority of the comments on the Yahoo site are pro-Trump. Could it be the tide is changing because the silent majority is no longer silent :-).
Can you believe this?
They are keeping score-—not by qualifications, but by skin color and sex.
Astonishing.
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The real injustice to America was BOTH parties conspiring to allow the Kenyanesian Usurpation.
The ineligible Marxist muslim has been doing his best to destroy what the founders bequeathed to us.
Fugazi media
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