Rep. John Lewis (D-Ga.) announced Thursday he won’t attend the opening of the Mississippi Civil Rights Museum on Saturday because President Trump will be there. “President Trump’s attendance and his hurtful policies are an insult to the people portrayed in this civil rights museum," Lewis said in a statement. Lewis cited Trump’s past comments about women, immigrants and NFL players who have protested during the national anthem before games, saying his remarks "disrespect the efforts" of civil rights leaders. He had previously said he was reconsidering whether to attend after the White House announced Tuesday that Trump would be at the event in Jackson, Miss. Read more: http://thehill.com/homenews/house/3...ng-of-civil-rights-museum-over-trump-presence Maybe it will be as big a hit as the Christmas Tree Lighting
With Trump, Some African Americans to Skip Mississippi Event Many in Mississippi's African-American community had waited decades for a civil rights museum. But with President Donald Trump coming to the museum's opening Saturday, some will skip the eagerly anticipated opening. They say Trump's policies are incompatible with honoring the African-American freedom struggle. That slide into racial and partisan strife from what was supposed to be a moment of unity and atonement was punctuated Thursday with U.S. Rep John Lewis saying he would abandon his plans to speak, saying Trump's presence was an insult. U.S. Rep. Bennie Thompson, Mississippi's only Democrat in Congress, announced his exit in a joint statement with Lewis. The NAACP, led by a Mississippian, has said Trump should cancel his planned appearance because of his divisive record on civil rights issues. "To come and somehow give the impression that things are all right, that we're getting along, was absolutely the wrong message," Thompson told The Associated Press in a telephone interview, saying he views Trump's agenda as too destructive to paper over differences, even for just an hour or two. https://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2017/12/08/us/ap-us-trump-mississippi.html
So scrap any progress made, and honoring what Martin Luther King jr accomplished anong others, because somebody wants to waste time hating the current administration ? That is simply stupid Party Politics and accomplishes nothing and helps nobody. I will turn my back, On turn my back instead. Next !
