The NAACP announced on Monday that the group President Donald Trump will not invite North Carolina next month to his National Convention. The first time that the prominent civil rights organization has excluded a seated president in its 116-year history.
Naacp President Derrick Johnson announced the move at a press conference in the afternoon and accused Trump of working against his mission.
“It has nothing to do with a political party,” said Johnson in an explanation. “Our mission is to promote civil rights, and the current president has made it clear that his mission is to eliminate civil rights.”
A message to the White House that was looking for a comment was not returned immediately.
In the past few months, the NAACP has filed several lawsuits against Trump.
In April, for example, the group sued the Ministry of Education to hold back federal money for schools that did not end with programs for diversity, equity and inclusion.
“There is a rich story of Republicans and Democrats who take part in our congress,” said the group in a statement. The Democrat Harry Truman was the first president in 1947 to take part in the NAACP National Convention.
NAACP officials found that the decision was hard in that the organization had long invited president with whom it had political differences.
Remarkably, Republican President George W. Bush spoke in July 2006 after months of criticism of the treatment of hurricane Katrina in 2005 the convention of the group, which had a disproportionate influence on black residents in New Orleans and in the Gulf Coast region.
The group also found that Republican President Ronald Reagan accepted her invitation in office in his first year. The heads of the state and government of civil rights had been able to utilize Reagan during the campaign of the term “welfare queen” of 1980 in order to refer to people who abuse federal aid. The term was regarded by many as a coded racial language for black women.
During his speech from 1981 before the Naacp Convention in Denver, Reagan convicted white Supremacist hate and swore that his government examines and persecuted “those who would try to refuse the Americans through violence or intimidation”.
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Beaumont reported from the Moines, Iowa. Chris Megerian contributed from Washington.
