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* NAACP Illinois State Conference President Teresa Haley talked about asylum seekers during the group’s October president’s call…

* From Ms. Haley’s remarks…

There’s an average 10 to 15,000 a day. So they’re up to about 80,000 immigrants on the West Side of Chicago on the South Side, where they’re dumping them off in parks, abandoned schools and finding every apartment that they can find to put them in.

OK, first of all, 80,000? Not even close.

* Back to Haley’s comments…

And we’re seeing families on the street and we’re like, oh my God, we’re not used to seeing families on the streets. But Black people have been on the streets forever and ever. And nobody cares because they say that we’re drug addicts, we’ve got mental health issues.

But these immigrants have come over here, they’ve been raping people. They’ve been breaking into homes. They’re like savages as well. They don’t speak the language and they look at us like we were crazy, because we were the only people in America who were brought over here against our wills and were slaves, sold into slavery. But everybody else who comes over here? We’re so kind we’re so friendly. You need some clothes, you need a place to stay? We’re gonna make it happen. So brother, I feel your pain. I’m right there with you. I’m trying not to be a [N-Word] but you know, I’m pro-Black.

Haley is currently vying for a seat on the NAACP’s National Board.

* Now-former DuPage County NAACP President Patrick Watson, who told me today that he saw Haley make the comments in real time, released this statement announcing his resignation from the organization a while back…

NAACP State Conference President Teresa Haley is caught in yet another tirade “…, but these immigrants coming over here, they been raping people, they been breaking into homes, they’re like savages as well, they don’t speak the language, and they look at us like we were crazy because we were the only people in America brought over here against our wills and were slaves, sold into slavery… not trying to be a “N”…,.” This captured recording is not the only time NAACP Illinois State Conference President, Teresa Haley, uses her powerful platform in a manner that sets up a destructive atmosphere as Illinois NAACP State Conference President. Teresa Haley is also Springfield Branch President and a candidate seeking election to the National NAACP Board of Directors representing Region Three.

We live with the horror of persons being shot, shot at, exploited, shunned, burned out of houses and homes, and murdered due to being immigrants, migrants, asylum seekers, refugees, being Black, surviving being Black and male in hostile environments. We live with the news of LGBTQIA persons being harmed, missing, and being un-alived. A person in a leadership position should exercise care of her heart and words and not be flippant when speaking about how the LGBTQIA community wants to be described and acknowledged. No group of human beings should be described as, We have all these new diverse people at NAACP National. When dealing with the annual reports with National, we had people wanting me to call them they, them, it, what the hell is that?.

I cannot remain part of this, expected to nod in agreement and applaud to that which is abhorrent to me. I therefore resign as President of the DuPage County NAACP. “I will remain allying with the communities abhorrent to Ms. Haley, mistaken in her words that advocating powerfully and effectively for the descendants of the formerly enslaved means to denigrate others struggling to find their way. Those granted positions must not allow themselves to become agents of hate speech and divisiveness, she should resign and sit to answer for her words” said Patrick Watson

Watson told me Haley made disparaging remarks about LGBTQ+ people at the November meeting, which was not recorded.

* Gov. Pritzker was asked about Haley’s remarks today…

Reprehensible remarks. I would hope that she would apologize for the remarks. I also think that people should recognize that immigrants to this country are all around us. My family’s an immigrant family from a couple of generations ago. Virtually all of us came here from somewhere else. And so remarks like that are a commentary on our entire society. Extraordinarily inappropriate.

I reached out to Ms. Haley earlier today and haven’t yet heard back. But the reporter who brought up the topic with Pritzker has apparently talked to her and quoted her as saying “AI can generate anything.”

posted by Rich Miller
Tuesday, Dec 12, 23 @ 2:41 pm

Comments

Is there a typo in the letter group? She seems to be parroting MAGA hate screed not the policies of NAACP.

Comment by Norseman Tuesday, Dec 12, 23 @ 2:51 pm
Today marks the first time of what will undoubtedly be dozens of times that I see someone use “AI can generate anything” as an excuse for horrible things they’ve said caught on video.

Comment by The Truth Tuesday, Dec 12, 23 @ 2:55 pm
Haley would be one of the first “outraged” if a Republican had said that.

Comment by spoon Tuesday, Dec 12, 23 @ 3:10 pm
As a student of W.E.B. Du Bois, and an irregular member of the NAACP over the past few decades, I am offended. More to the point, I believe W.E.B. Du Bois would be shocked and angered by this statement.

Du Bois and a diverse group founded the NAACP for the purpose of advocating equality between African Americans and other people of color. That equality was about raising up all groups to the level of the white middle class (including poor white people). At the time, those other people included Jews (who were among the founders of the NAACP).

Unlike Booker T. Washington who was convinced Black folk would remain separate from white folks and other groups (”like the fingers of the hand”), Du Bois wanted to create equality of opportunity and condition. He never wanted to oppress others or participate in existing oppression of others.

Haley’s suggestion that because Black people have been poor and homeless in Chicago others should be equally homeless is an affront to human decency. But her assertion that immigrants are rapist and criminals is simply a lie. It is an evil idea that she is publicly espousing so as to keep ethnic minorities beneath Black folk.

Justifying inequality is never acceptable. I am sorry for immigrants to America who are made to confront the evil among us. Apologize, Ms. Haley. You are failing in the mission of the NAACP.

Comment by H-W Tuesday, Dec 12, 23 @ 3:31 pm
To Ms. Haley’s comment on AI can generate anything.””

I would imagine that AI uses standard English; Ms Haley slid into colloquial language here and there. Her delivery refutes her message.

Comment by Rudy’s teeth Tuesday, Dec 12, 23 @ 3:33 pm
Are we sure that the video wasn’t intended as a demonstration of how to lose support? She’s lost mine… and so has the NAACP if they don’t move to remove her…

Comment by Lincoln Lad Tuesday, Dec 12, 23 @ 3:38 pm
Teresa being Teresa. You would think the misuse of city cannabis grant funds would be enough to get her in trouble. She just can’t help herself.

Comment by FIREDup! Tuesday, Dec 12, 23 @ 3:44 pm
- …and so has the NAACP if they don’t move to remove her… -

Same here…rapists? savages?…totally unacceptable.

Comment by Dotnonymous x Tuesday, Dec 12, 23 @ 3:45 pm
Theresa Haley has been coddled by the Springfield media. She said Springfield School District 186 punished African-Americans more harshly than Caucasians for the same offense … apparently she was unaware of “progressive discipline.” She was never called to account, never made to apologize for that “observation” …

Comment by Anyone Remember Tuesday, Dec 12, 23 @ 3:45 pm
so will she prove she was victim of AI? cause the assertion feels false. and the words are terrible.

Comment by Amalia Tuesday, Dec 12, 23 @ 4:16 pm
===cause the assertion feels false===

lol

Because it is.

Comment by Rich Miller Tuesday, Dec 12, 23 @ 4:17 pm
“I cannot remain part of this”

I wish more people would respond like this when the groups they belong to are caught doing reprehensible things.

Comment by TheInvisibleMan Tuesday, Dec 12, 23 @ 4:21 pm
If it is AI how could Mr. Watson have seen it in real time?

Comment by Dupage Dem Tuesday, Dec 12, 23 @ 4:26 pm
so, not false, therefore national leaders time to oust her.

Comment by Amalia Tuesday, Dec 12, 23 @ 4:36 pm
- But these immigrants have come over here, they’ve been raping people. They’ve been breaking into homes. They’re like savages as well. -

Q. Was this said by former President or by (former?) NAACP Illinois State Conference President Teresa Haley?

A. Both

Comment by Dotnonymous x Tuesday, Dec 12, 23 @ 4:57 pm
Something Mike Quigley told me about Congress Critters, essentially sometimes the far left and far right veer so far they inadvertently end up agreeing. This is a perfect example, although the NAACP has never been what you would consider far left.

Comment by levivotedforjudy Tuesday, Dec 12, 23 @ 5:00 pm
“You would think the misuse of city cannabis grant funds would be enough to get her in trouble.”

She keynoted a dinner I attended and spent about a third of her podium time BLASTING cannabis legalization. Like, Reefer Madness-like talking points. Her twitter is full of anti-cannabis talking points. What on earth was she doing anywhere near grant programs related to cannabis?

Comment by sulla Tuesday, Dec 12, 23 @ 5:01 pm
- where they’re dumping them off -

Garbage is dumped off…not people…shame on NAACP State Conference President Teresa Haley…for her hateful words.

Comment by Dotnonymous x Tuesday, Dec 12, 23 @ 5:19 pm
Okay. That’s pretty horrible. No excuse for that

Comment by Stormsw7706 Tuesday, Dec 12, 23 @ 5:19 pm
Racism

Comment by Timmy Wednesday, Dec 13, 23 @ 5:56 am
AI should not become the assumed out for ignorant speech.

It would be nice if leaders would find out what’s actually going on in the world before speechifying.

Comment by walker Wednesday, Dec 13, 23 @ 7:06 am
“Leaders” ha. What a leader she is. Insane.

Comment by Timmy Wednesday, Dec 13, 23 @ 7:14 am