A civil rights leader in Illinois is facing calls to resign after referring to migrants as “savages” during a Zoom meeting.
NAACP Illinois State Conference President Teresa Haley was recorded in a virtual meeting calling migrants “savages” and claiming they are “raping people” in a video that was released by former DuPage County NAACP President Patrick Watson on Tuesday.
Haley made the comments to argue that Black residents enduring homelessness are not given the same aid as migrants during a Oct. 26 Zoom meeting.
“Black people have been on the streets forever and ever,” Haley says. "And nobody cares, because they say that we’re drug addicts, we’ve got mental health issues.”
She continued: “But these immigrants who come over here, they’ve been raping people, they’ve been breaking into homes,” she continues. "They’re like savages as well! They don’t speak the language and they look at us like we’re crazy.”
Jeez. The NAACP sucks at vetting their upper management. Remember when a white woman put on blackface and somehow managed to become the head of the NAACP?
Wasn’t sven black face, she just pretended she was light skinned and it just worked until it didn’t
Look everything about that was insane and wrong, but I respect a good hustle
How many times have we been told ‘fake it till ya make it’
That lady gave it a solid effort. Some might say that’s commendable in itself. A real pick herself up by the bootstraps sorta situation.
It’s all about giving jobs to your friends at this point.
Politics is a cult and we’re not invited.