Pictured are NAACP President and CEO Derrick Johnson (wearing gold striped tie) and Ohio Congresswoman Marcia L. Fudge (wearing orange suit), a Warrensville Heights Democrat whose largely Black Congressional Black Caucus whose largely Black 11th congressional district includes Cleveland, Maryland Democratic Congressman Elijah Cummings (wearing blue striped tie), and Democratic U.S. Representatives Rashida Tlaib of Michigan (wearing red blouse), Ilhan Omar of Minnesota (wearing head garb), Ayanna Pressley of Massachusetts(wearing all black and beads), and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York (wearing all black and no beads)
By Kathy Wray Coleman, editor-in-chief
Clevelandurbannews.com and Kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com, BALTIMORE, Maryland- The NAACP, led by Derrick Johnson, its CEO and national president, has called for impeachment hearings to ensue against President Donald Trump, the nation's most prominent Black Civil Rights organization holding a mass teleconference and podcast discussion call last week on that and the Black agenda with the Black media and key Black leaders nationwide, including members of congress such as Ohio Congresswoman Marcia L. Fudge.
Johnson has led the NAACP since October of 2017, and has said that Trump, a Republican seeking reelection in 2020, "is unfit to serve as president of this country."
Delegates to the NAACP voted unanimously via a resolution adopted at its national convention in Detroit in July in support of the impeachment of Trump, a billionaire real estate mogul and television personality turned president who defeated Democrat Hillary Clinton to win the White House in 2016, and whose controversial policies and recent attacks on congress persons of color and Civil Rights leaders have gotten him into political trouble.
“We want to talk about what part public policy plays in racism in the United States and we want to talk about what role the NAACP plays in trying once and for all to eliminate racism,'' NAACP board chairman Leon Russell told reporters at the convention, the NAACP demanding racial, economic and social justice for the Back community, among other concerns.
A Warrensville Heights Democrat and former chair of the Congressional Black Caucus whose largely Black 11th congressional district includes Cleveland, and of whom is among more than a third of the 235- member Democratic caucus in the House of Representatives who want Trump impeached, Fudge reiterated her call for impeachment at a town hall in the Cleveland area on Aug 3, the federal lawmaker saying the president is "a clear and present danger to our democracy."
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, the first woman to lead a majority party in congress, has been hesitant to push for impeachment, saying as an excuse that the Democrats do not have the votes in the House to initiate impeachment proceedings and should focus more on getting the president out of office in 2020.
But that has not stopped fellow congressional Democrats, among them Ohio Congressman Tim Ryan, a presidential candidate, from continuing demands for impeachment.
While the NAACP has taken on Republican presidents and policies its leaders say are detrimental to Blacks, calling for presidential impeachment, as has happened with Trump, is a new thing for the Civil Rights group that has both clout and influence.
In spite of his racially divisive campaign strategy, designed, say pundits, to satisfy his Republican base by targeting Black people, including public comments that the Black community has nothing to lose economically and otherwise, the president, he apparently believes, is simultaneously courting the Black vote.
It fell seven percentage points from 2012 to 2016 when he won the White House over Hillary Clinton, some four million Obama voters who voted in droves when the country's first Black president was elected in 2008 and reelected in 2012 staying home, and Clinton, in 2016, getting six percent less of the Black vote that was handed to Obama in 2012.
And if the president continues his wicked ways, say his critics, borderline Blacks, the few that backed Trump for president in 2016, will likely vote blue in 2020, or, in other words, for a Democrat for president, the crowded field of Democratic presidential hopefuls of which include former vice president Joe Biden and U.S Sens Elizabeth Warren, Bernie Sanders and Kamala Harris, the top tier Democratic candidates.
He lashed out at the Republican-leaning Fox News on Sunday over a hypothetical poll that shows him losing to Biden, Warren, Sanders and Harris in a general election match up in 2020, backlash, in part, from his shenanigans against Blacks and others of color.
There's something going on at Fox, I'll tell you right now," the agitated president told reporters on Sunday. "And I am not happy with it."
Trump has been using his mantle as president, Twitter and campaign rallies to either lodge or further unprovoked verbal attacks on federal lawmakers of color, most of them women.
Specifically, he created a fury in July by demanding that U.S. Reps Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York, Ilhan Omar of Minnesota, Ayanna Pressley of Massachusetts, and Rashida Tlaib of Michigan go home to the countries they came from, all but Omar, who is a naturalized U.S. citizen who came to America with her U.S. born parents as a child refugee, born in the U.S.
A week later he intensified his attacks on the federal lawmakers, saying in a tweet that the four members of the congressional quartet now dubbed 'the quad' are "incapable of loving our country.”
A week after that he went on a rampage against Civil Rights leader the Rev Al Sharpton and seasoned U.S. Rep. Elijah Cummings of Maryland, blaming the lawmaker for poverty and disparities against Blacks in housing in the 65 percent Black city of Baltimore, Cummings, in turn, demanding more federal resources for his seventh congressional district
It does not help the outspoken White president that the national headquarters of the NAACP is located in Baltimore, the president getting static all around from Blacks, and others, regarding his divisive racial rhetoric.
Democratic members of congress, 2020 presidential candidates and world leaders have also called the president to task for his flagrant attacks on the four congresswomen of color, longtime congressman John Lewis of Georgia, who is Black, calling Trump racist and an outright embarrassment to the American people.
Clevelandurbannews.com and Kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com, Ohio's most read Black digital newspaper and Black blog with some 5 million views on Google Plus alone.Tel: (216) 659-0473 and Email: editor@clevelandurbannews.com. Kathy Wray Coleman, editor-in-chief, and who trained for 17 years at the Call and Post Newspaper in Cleveland, Ohio. We interviewed former president Barack Obama one-on-one when he was campaigning for president. As to the Obama interview, CLICK HERE TO READ THE ENTIRE ARTICLE AT CLEVELAND URBAN NEWS.COM, OHIO'S LEADER IN BLACK DIGITAL NEWS.
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