Posted on 01/03/2017 11:15:03 AM PST by EinNYC
Members of the NAACP started occupying the office of Alabama Sen. Jeff Sessions Tuesday and called for him to turn down his controversial nomination to become the next U.S. Attorney General.
“The @NAACP & @AlabamaNAACP are occupying the Mobile office of @jeffsessions--until he withdraws as a AG nominee or we're arrested,” NAACP President Cornell William Brooks tweeted at 12:44 p.m., with a photo showing several members sitting outside the door.
President-elect Donald Trump has tapped Sessions, 70, to be his Attorney General — a move that drew immediate rebukes for Sessions' history of opposing civil rights causes.
Sessions lost a nomination from President Ronald Reagan to become a federal judge after accusations that he had made racist remarks. Former colleagues said he called civil rights groups, including the NAACP, “un-American” and “communist inspired,” but said he was “okay” with the Ku Klux Klan until he learned that some members smoked marijuana.
Since then, he has earned a reputation as one of the staunchest conservatives in the Senate, and he has opposed Obamacare, the repeal of Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell, and all three of President Obama’s Supreme Court nominees.
Racism at it roots.
I call on them to remove themselves from the human race. If, in fact, they are part of it.
NAACP - contains the classification “colored.”
The hateful racists!
Drama. Sessions should not withdraw.
Love your posts. Keep up the good work!
The Senate should be able to order them out.
We’re in freaking charge of the place.
My advise to Senator Sessions. Issue a press release that contains the following: “My office is being occupied by a racist group. In one hour they will be arrested.” Then do it.
Fine. Arrest and prosecute every single one of them.
Where’s Epic Beard Man when ya need him? :)
They did arrest them!
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2017/jan/3/jeff-sessions-naacp-sit-ends-arrests/
Good move!!!!
Excellent! Let's see those smirks wiped right off their stupid bigoted faces. I hope they have to pay a BIG fine to get out of jail, and that having been in jail adversely affects their employment.
How do they get off work to sit-in?....Oh wait, nevermind.
Did they tie the Senator up and beat him until he denounced Trump?
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