Hello All:
While we are trying to deal with the plandemic of T-rump depriving people of their right to vote; while Black men are being shot in the back at point blank range by deranged white police; while people are losing their livelihoods and are being evicted from their apartments, foreclosed on their homes, while Black people nationwide are being disenfranchised of their right to vote and are being subjected to the trickery, lies, deceits and downright full frontal violations of their rights as human beings, the NAACP has decided to step on the neck of Rodney Muhammad for making a public relations error. In the parlance of Trevor Noah: "ARE YOU SHITTING ME?"
Where are your effing priorities??
How dare you call for Rodney Muhammad's resignation, when we have not heard you say one word about the police who are killing Black people right and left. George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Ahmaud Aubery, and on and on an on.
By the way NAACP, what's your plan for getting Black voters to the polls while the ersatz president is violating every civil, constitutional and human right their is. What the eff is wrong with you.
Replacing Rodney Muhammad, while this may have been an error in judgment, is insipid and subservient - to say the least.
How do you plan to get Black people registered and to the polls?
What are your plans for helping voters vote - nationally?
What is you rationale for this when we have much bigger fish to fry. This is what makes you, the venerable first civil rights movement, look like sell outs in the eyes of the youth.
This is unwarranted. He apologized. He does not need to step down
Reinstate him - and let's get the job done that we are so far behind at this point. Marshaling and consolidating the Black voters to get out there and vote.
UPDATED: 6 p.m.
PHILADELPHIA (KYW Newsradio) — Members of the Philadelphia NAACP have voiced frustration over their president, Rodney Muhammad, after he shared an anti-Semitic meme on Facebook. No one within the organization has called for his resignation, but leaders outside of it are.
Listen Live Now on KYWJohn Jordan, a longtime member and former leader of the Philadelphia NAACP, said many members are disappointed that their leader is under fire at such a critical time.
“We are just surprised that he got caught up in something like this,” he said, “given how intelligent Rodney is and how well-versed Rodney is.”
On July 23, Muhammad shared an image of Eagles player DeSean Jackson, rapper Ice Cube, and popular TV host Nick Cannon, who were each recently called out for their own anti-Semitic posts. In the image Muhammad shared, the three men were placed above a quote misattributed to the philosopher Francois Voltaire and an anti-Semitic caricature.
PLEASE BE ADVISED: I DID NOT ORIGINATE THIS POST - I AM REPOSTING FROM A PREVIOUS POST VIA KYW - SO DON'T GET IT TWISTED - Thank you - Gloria Dulan-Wilson
Over the weekend, Muhammad told NBC10 he did not know the image was offensive, but when he realized it was, he immediately removed it.
On Monday, he issued a statement via the NAACP’s national website, saying he learned the image had been used by white supremacist groups. He wrote, “It was never my intention to offend anyone or cause any hurt.”
Other city leaders were not impressed.
“I read his statement several times, and the words ‘I’ and ‘sorry’ are not in there,” said Steven Rosenberg, CEO of the Jewish Federation of Greater Philadelphia, which has condemned the post and called for Muhammad’s resignation.
Since the Jewish Federation first called Muhammad out on July 24, Mayor Jim Kenney, members of Philadelphia City Council, and other elected officials leaders have followed suit.
“He needs to apologize, then step aside to allow progress to move forward,” said state Sen. Anthony H. Williams. Williams was outraged over Muhammad’s post, and he said it undermines the NAACP’s effectiveness at a critical time. “Last year, he called for police officers to be fired for the exact same thing — that is, making racist, offensive posts on Facebook,” Williams noted.
“I wouldn’t ask him to resign for something like that,” countered Harold James, an executive board member of the Philadelphia NAACP. “I don’t think he needs to apologize,” James continued. “He didn’t know what it represented.”James said he supports Muhammad’s desire to speak out on behalf of Jackson and other Black public figures in the hot seat, which was the original intent of the post.
”We are certainly not an anti-Semitic organization, and we disavow anything that is anti-Semitic,” said Rev J. Louis Felton, a pastor who is also serving as the Philadelphia NAACP’s first vice president.
The Philadelphia NAACP has held its annual fundraiser at the National Museum of American Jewish History for the last couple of years, Felton noted, and the group deeply cherishes working with the Jewish community. “But our president is of age, and I will have to allow him to speak for himself,” added Felton, who would serve as interim president if Muhammad were to step aside, before NAACP elections this fall.
Felton expects Muhammad to call an executive board meeting this week to discuss the next steps.
Multiple NAACP chapters have condemned Muhammad’s post, and the NAACP Pennsylvania State Conference has taken the lead. State President Kenneth Huston said his hands are tied, and it will be up to the NAACP executive board. If they do not vote Muhammad out, it would be up to the national NAACP. The national group has yet to comment.
Call for solidarity
Black and Jewish leaders in Philadelphia came together virtually Tuesday for a Zoom call, where a number of elected officials joined the Jewish Federation’s call for Muhammad to step aside — including U.S. Rep. Dwight Evans, state Sens. Vincent Hughes and Sharif Street, state Rep. Joanna McClinton, and Philadelphia City Councilmember Jamie Gauthier.
“The idea that a civil rights leader would not just share an anti-Semitic message, but then refuse to accept responsibility for it and apologize … is extremely disappointing to me,” said Gauthier.
The group also noted that Mosque No. 12, a North Philadelphia-based Nation of Islam mosque run by Muhammad, also shared an anti-Semitic post this week.
The Nation of Islam is considered a hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center for its “theology of innate Black superiority over whites and the deeply racist, antisemitic and anti-LGBT rhetoric of its leaders,” like Nation of Islam head Louis Farrakhan.
The Urban League of Philadelphia, Laborers’ District Council, Anti-Defamation League of Philadelphia, American Jewish Committee, and the NAACP Pennsylvania State Conference also joined the Zoom call to condemn Muhammad’s post.
PHILADELPHIA (KYW Newsradio) — Members of the Philadelphia NAACP have voiced frustration over their president, Rodney Muhammad, after he shared an anti-Semitic meme on Facebook. No one within the organization has called for his resignation, but leaders outside of it are.
Listen Live Now on KYWJohn Jordan, a longtime member and former leader of the Philadelphia NAACP, said many members are disappointed that their leader is under fire at such a critical time.
“We are just surprised that he got caught up in something like this,” he said, “given how intelligent Rodney is and how well-versed Rodney is.”
On July 23, Muhammad shared an image of Eagles player DeSean Jackson, rapper Ice Cube, and popular TV host Nick Cannon, who were each recently called out for their own anti-Semitic posts. In the image Muhammad shared, the three men were placed above a quote misattributed to the philosopher Francois Voltaire and an anti-Semitic caricature.
PLEASE BE ADVISED: I DID NOT ORIGINATE THIS POST - I AM REPOSTING FROM A PREVIOUS POST VIA KYW - SO DON'T GET IT TWISTED - Thank you - Gloria Dulan-Wilson
Over the weekend, Muhammad told NBC10 he did not know the image was offensive, but when he realized it was, he immediately removed it.
On Monday, he issued a statement via the NAACP’s national website, saying he learned the image had been used by white supremacist groups. He wrote, “It was never my intention to offend anyone or cause any hurt.”
Other city leaders were not impressed.
“I read his statement several times, and the words ‘I’ and ‘sorry’ are not in there,” said Steven Rosenberg, CEO of the Jewish Federation of Greater Philadelphia, which has condemned the post and called for Muhammad’s resignation.
Since the Jewish Federation first called Muhammad out on July 24, Mayor Jim Kenney, members of Philadelphia City Council, and other elected officials leaders have followed suit.
“He needs to apologize, then step aside to allow progress to move forward,” said state Sen. Anthony H. Williams. Williams was outraged over Muhammad’s post, and he said it undermines the NAACP’s effectiveness at a critical time. “Last year, he called for police officers to be fired for the exact same thing — that is, making racist, offensive posts on Facebook,” Williams noted.
“I wouldn’t ask him to resign for something like that,” countered Harold James, an executive board member of the Philadelphia NAACP. “I don’t think he needs to apologize,” James continued. “He didn’t know what it represented.”James said he supports Muhammad’s desire to speak out on behalf of Jackson and other Black public figures in the hot seat, which was the original intent of the post.
”We are certainly not an anti-Semitic organization, and we disavow anything that is anti-Semitic,” said Rev J. Louis Felton, a pastor who is also serving as the Philadelphia NAACP’s first vice president.
The Philadelphia NAACP has held its annual fundraiser at the National Museum of American Jewish History for the last couple of years, Felton noted, and the group deeply cherishes working with the Jewish community. “But our president is of age, and I will have to allow him to speak for himself,” added Felton, who would serve as interim president if Muhammad were to step aside, before NAACP elections this fall.
Felton expects Muhammad to call an executive board meeting this week to discuss the next steps.
Multiple NAACP chapters have condemned Muhammad’s post, and the NAACP Pennsylvania State Conference has taken the lead. State President Kenneth Huston said his hands are tied, and it will be up to the NAACP executive board. If they do not vote Muhammad out, it would be up to the national NAACP. The national group has yet to comment.
Call for solidarity
Black and Jewish leaders in Philadelphia came together virtually Tuesday for a Zoom call, where a number of elected officials joined the Jewish Federation’s call for Muhammad to step aside — including U.S. Rep. Dwight Evans, state Sens. Vincent Hughes and Sharif Street, state Rep. Joanna McClinton, and Philadelphia City Councilmember Jamie Gauthier.
“The idea that a civil rights leader would not just share an anti-Semitic message, but then refuse to accept responsibility for it and apologize … is extremely disappointing to me,” said Gauthier.
The group also noted that Mosque No. 12, a North Philadelphia-based Nation of Islam mosque run by Muhammad, also shared an anti-Semitic post this week.
The Nation of Islam is considered a hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center for its “theology of innate Black superiority over whites and the deeply racist, antisemitic and anti-LGBT rhetoric of its leaders,” like Nation of Islam head Louis Farrakhan.
The Urban League of Philadelphia, Laborers’ District Council, Anti-Defamation League of Philadelphia, American Jewish Committee, and the NAACP Pennsylvania State Conference also joined the Zoom call to condemn Muhammad’s post.
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