'Senator Tuberville’s comments are flat out racist, ignorant and utterly sickening,' NAACP President Derrick Johnson said in a statement.
over the weekend that descendants of Black slaves are criminals in remarks about reparations.
Johnson, who noted that the far-right has pushed such racist theories, added,"Next time the Senator wants to talk about crime, he should talk about Donald Trump’s hate-fueled rally on January 6, 2021, and the attacks that followed. Perhaps the real criminals are in his orbit."called Democrats"They want crime. They want crime because they want to take over what you got. They want to control what you have," Tuberville told the crowd.
Tuberville, whose lengthy football coaching career included the top position at Auburn University from 1999 to 2008, has served in the SenateMorial said the senator's comments are even more"heartbreaking" given his"decades of coaching Black athletes who entrusted their health, safety and futures to a man who clearly holds them in the lowest contempt."Congressional Republicans have been largely silent on Tuberville’s remarks.
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