Reasons Why Internal Injustices at the National NAACP Headquarters, Contribute to the Overall Escalation of Injustices Across the Nation
In 2023, four criminal indictments were filed against Donald Trump, the president of the United Statesfrom 2017 to 2021. Two indictments are on state charges (one in New York and one in Georgia) and two indictments (as well as one superseding indictment) are on federal charges (one in Florida and one in the District of Columbia). These indictments amount to a total of 91 felony charges. This is not to mention Trump was impeached twice by an independent board of his legislative colleagues.
If the aforementioned is not bad enough, consider this, the period between 2017 to 2021, Trump was accused of rape, sexual assault, and sexual harassment, including non-consensual kissing or groping, by at least 25 women since the 1970s. In 2016 a video surfaced with Trump confessing of his habitual acts of sexual assault while stating he can do and get away with it because he was a celebrity.
None of Trump’s highly publicized admissions to sexual assault, his 91 indictments, his nearly 30 complaints of sexual crimes, his multiple impeachments, his incitement of riots, invitations to assassinations, his urging of violent insurrection against Government officials which led to the destruction of Government property, and the serious injury and death of Capitol police, have disqualified him from seeking the U.S. Presidency and Commander-In-Chief, the world’s largest employer and by far the largest possessor of the world’s largest stockpile of weapons of mass destruction.
Believe it or not, at the same time Trump, the afore described unaccountable/habitual criminal and racist who has emboldened and helped to dangerously reignite the activism and recruitment of KKK and other such racial-domestic-terrorist groups, the National NAACP President & CEO Derrick Johnson has not only done little to put up a formidable fight against the dangerous rise of Trump, the deadly escalation in police misconduct, “White Supremacy” terrorism, and the epitome of White privilege associated with the acceptance of Trump-crimes, Johnson, our current leader of the “nation’s oldest and largest civil rights organization” has instead added to the nation’s double standard by suspending Black civil rights workers, NAACP members, and NAACP candidates for allegations of infamous, criminal, or “inimical conduct” without waiting on proof, evidence, indictments, NAACP hearings, or constitutional due process, which punishes, bans and disallows these Black advocates and potential civil rights icons from being eligible to become “the President” of even a voluntary local or state NAACP unit.
Similarly, former NC NAACP President William J. Barber, II, a friend of Johnson, who was propelled to national prominence in 2013 as the “Architect of the Moral Monday Movement,” did little to use his “national” status and “moral” stage to wage a formidable battle against the immoralities of Trump. Had Barber, who arrived on the national stage in 2013, and Johnson, who became a national leader in 2017, used their combined platforms and influence to stop Trump from reactivating the federal death penalty in 2019 after it had laid dormant for over 30 years, they likely could have saved lives that are “put to death” largely due to race and/or financial status rather than actual guilt
In 2019, while Trump was reactivating the federal death penalty, which would for the first time kill more poor inmates at the federal level than all states combined, Barber who also served as a National NAACP Board Member at the time, was busy holding press conferences to stop a little known Black NAACP rising star from becoming president of the NC NAACP. With the help of Johnson, Barber would succeed.
The person Barber and Johnson stopped from becoming NC NAACP president in 2019 had NO indictments; NO evidence of sexual misconduct and the only case against him was voluntarily dismissed by the accuser on 11/13/23; NO felony charges; NO convictions of a crime other than being arrested for nearly 30 times for protesting injustices at schools board meetings, courts, county commissioners meetings, and the NC Legislative Building.
Barber would violate NAACP rules and IM-“morally” work to publicize and use unproven allegations and an unverified report to wrongfully convict the NC NAACP presidential candidate in the court of public opinion. The NC NAACP presidential candidate was poised to win the 2019 NC NAACP election and defeat the incumbent candidate desperately supported by Barber, but was ultimately suspended by Johnson WITHOUT A HEARING OF DUE PROCESS just 9 days before the scheduled election.
The dangerous precedent set by Barber and Johnson via suspensions and unconstitutional punishment being administered inside the NAACP without due process, has caused an escalation of NAACP members, promising NAACP officers, and “eligible” NAACP candidates to be single-handedly blocked from their dreams or eligibility to seek the local or state NAACP presidency, as the White male Trumps of the world can actually indirectly confess to crimes via recorded interviews, be indicted, be proven guilty, have multiple felony charges, be impeached, and still remain eligible and be elected president in the nation and world’s most powerful presidential position.
Such scenarios largely explain why Black businesses, Black “advancement,” civil rights victories, prolonged and courageous civil rights direct action, prevention of Black wrongful convictions, Black youth protections, Black women’s protections, constitutional presumption of innocence, equal protection under the laws, and due process are all on the DECLINE as Black deaths by firearms, deadly police misconduct, Black mass incarceration, White domestic terrorism, gang violence, voter suppression, misogyny, pay disparities, health disparities, wrongful convictions, death by capital punishment, institutional racism, KKK recruitment, American-tax-funded Palestinian genocide, and Trumpism are all on the rise.
To join our U.S. Civil Rights Complaint to “Protect NAACP Members from Unfair Suspensions,” which is now supported by 300 signatures, you may click onto the link below:
https://www.change.org/STOP-Wrongful-NAACP-Suspensions
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Meanwhile, THANK YOU, WE LOVE YOU for signing and giving support toward those who have committed their lives toward civil rights only to have their civil rights violated ironically by the very ones whose job is to protect such precious rights.