NAACP Congratulates Trump But Declares That 2016 ‘Regularized Racism’ in Statement

The NAACP released a statement today reacting to the election results, congratulating Donald Trump but bemoaning the rice of racism in the 2016 campaign.

“The NAACP, as America’s oldest and largest civil rights organization,” they say in a statement out today, “must bluntly note that the 2016 campaign has regularized racism, standardized anti-Semitism, de-exceptionalized xenophobia and mainstreamed misogyny.”

They do not point fingers directly at Trump this time, instead crediting him for striking a more unifying tone and hoping it will continue:

During this critical period of transition, we are now calling upon the next president to speak and act with the moral clarity necessary to silence the dog-whistle racial politics that have characterized recent months and have left many of our fellow citizens snarling at one another in anger and even whimpering in fear. The more than 120 million Americans who cast ballots in this election – as well as the more than 100 million more eligible voters who declined to vote – deserve no less.

On the campaign trail a few months ago, Trump was talking about how horrible black communities are, and the head of the NAACP, Cornell William Brooks strongly rebuked him.

[image via NAACP]

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