NAACP Prez Calls Illegal Immigrants Rapist Savages Stealing Resources from Blacks

NAACP Prez Teresa Haley, who has a bachelors degree in 'communication' runs a training and consulting service and bills herself on its website as a 'dynamic speaker'

Illinois NAACP president faces calls to quit over conference call where she branded migrants 'rapist savages' who are taking resources from black and homeless people

• Teresa Haley also used the N-Word and sneered at transgender people during racist rant against migrants in Chicago
• The NAACP rising star won its activist of the year award in 2021 and is gunning for a seat on the national board 
• Illinois Governor JB Pritzker slams the comments as 'extraordinarily inappropriate' and demands an apology

A horrified colleague has called out a leading NAACP activist for hate speech after she denounced migrants as raping, burgling savages who do not speak English.

Teresa Haley was complaining to branch presidents of the Illinois NAACP about support that Chicago authorities were offering to the 26,000 migrants who have arrived in the city since August last year.

Haley who heads the NAACP state conference also used the N-word and sneered at transgender people during the video call which was recorded by former Du Bois County branch president Patrick Watson.

'These immigrants who come over here, they've been raping people, they've been breaking into homes, they're like savages as well,' she said.

'They don't speak the language and they look at us like we're crazy.'

More than 26,000 have arrived in Chicago since August last year amid tension with residents

Patrick Watson who recorded the comments accused Haley of betraying the organization's legacy with 'derogatory, hateful language'

Haley suggested 'AI' may have been used to doctor her words when reached on holiday in Dubai by WLS-Ch7, adding: 'With AI anything is possible.'

But Watson said the comments were heard by everyone at the meeting.

'We've had immigrants who've been shot at, we've had immigrants who've been killed,' he added.

'We have had people who have been beaten up because of their immigration status, and enough is enough, it's time to stand up and say no to hate.

'You can be for raising up your people without denigrating other people.'

Haley is a rising star in the organization and won its activist of the year award in 2021.

She is campaigning for a seat on running on its national board and found backing from current DuPage County board president Michael Childress who said she had his full support.

'These comments are not indicative of what the NAACP stands for, but I'm not going to speak on behalf of Teresa Haley and say she should or shouldn't resign or things like that,' he added.

Haley who has a bachelors degree in 'communication' runs a training and consulting service and bills herself on its website as a 'dynamic speaker'.

She told the meeting that migrants were benefitting at the expense of black people.

'We were the only people in America who were brought over here against our wills and we're slaves, sold into slavery,' she said.

The city's airport and police stations have been used to shelter the thousands of migrants 

But the city is budgeting $150 million to spend on new facilities at the start of 2024 

As winter approached, Mayor Brandon Johnson has opened camps for migrants, some of which are being placed in Black and Hispanic neighborhoods

'But unlike 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.'

Watson said she also complained about being asked to use transgender pronouns she described as ‘they, them, it'. 

'What the hell is that?' she demanded.

When Watson protested at her remarks she told him: 'So brother, I feel your pain, I'm trying not to be a n******, but you know I'm pro-black.'

Illinois Governor JB Pritzker called remarks 'reprehensible' and 'extraordinarily inappropriate'.

'I would hope that she would apologize for the remarks,' he added.

'I also think that people should recognize that immigrants in this country are all around us.

'Virtually all of us came here from somewhere else.

'So remarks like that are commentary on our entire society.'

The NAACP, founded in 1909 as the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, describes its mission as support for 'all marginalized people'.

But Carla Jackson-Campbell, a senior NAACP executive, said the group was 'still evaluating all of the information and awaiting more details'.

Illinois State Governor JB Pritzker denounced the remarks as 'extraordinarily inappropriate'

'Our mission is and always will be to achieve equity and political rights and social inclusion by advancing the needs of Black people,' she added.

'President Haley does embrace the mission of our beloved NAACP.'

Black residents made up most of the protesters who stormed a meeting of Chicago City Council last month as it debated whether it should retain its sanctuary city status.

And in September a group of Black homeowners protested outside the City Hall, calling on the city to redirect the funding spent on migrants to their neighborhoods.

The city plans to spend $150 million on migrant services in the first six months of 2024 alone at a time when campaigners estimate there are more than 50,000 homeless black people.

'The South Side has been under-resourced, under-funded for years, for decades,' community organizer Jessica Jackson said during the demonstration. 'We have schools that need to be reopened.'

She continued: 'For them to be sympathetic to their needs, saying it's a humanitarian issue crisis when Black people have had a humanitarian crisis for housing, employment and everything else.

'How do we get pushed to the back?'

Five years ago Haley had protested at the use of the N-word by colleagues, branding it 'disrespectful'.

'We are living in a time when people are changing, but the world still remains the same,' she told a chapter meeting.

She suggested 'AI' may have been used to doctor her words when reached on holiday in Dubai by WLS-Ch7, adding 'With AI anything is possible'

'The NAACP is not just about black folks sir, it is about all folks, working and living together and being respectful of one another.'

Watson admitted that others on the video call had raised concerns about migrants but said Haley was 'the only one that used this derogatory, hateful language'

'Thinking of the rich history of the NAACP, it's the oldest civil rights organization in the country,' he added.

'And to have an Illinois state president engage in that type of rhetoric and that type of speech, I could have never imagined I would have heard that from a civil rights leader.'

Tunisia Outraged: Denzel Washington Cast as Hannibal in new movie

Marble bust of Hannibal Barca, ca. 3rd century BCE

Denzel Washington's casting as Hannibal in upcoming Netflix movie sparks race row in Tunisia

• Netflix are accused of making a potential 'historical error' in casting Denzel Washington as historic military leader Hannibal 
• It comes after the streaming giant sparked outrage by casting a black actress as Egyptian empress Cleopatra 

Netflix's decision to cast Denzel Washington as historic military leader Hannibal in its upcoming blockbuster has sparked a furious race row in Tunisia. 

The streaming giant is accused of making a potential 'historical error' in casting Washington, who is black, as the ancient Carthaginian general.

Netflix's decision to cast Denzel Washington as historic military leader Hannibal in its upcoming blockbuster has sparked a furious race row in Tunisia. 

The streaming giant is accused of making a potential 'historical error' in casting Washington, who is black, as the ancient Carthaginian general. 

Outrage over the casting spilled into Tunisian parliament and sparked an online petition calling on Tunisia's Ministry of Culture to 'take action against the attempt to steal our history.'

The controversy in the African nation comes months after nearby Egypt was also embroiled in a Netflix scandal over docudrama 'Cleopatra', which was accused of 'blackwashing' after hiring a black actress to play the Macedonian-Greek empress. 

Denzel Washington (pictured in April 2023) has been cast as ancient military leader Hannibal for an upcoming Netflix blockbuster, sparking fury in Tunisia, where Carthage was located

Hannibal was a Carthaginian general famed for leading his army - including African war elephants - across the Alps as he laid siege to the Roman Empire in 218 BC. Hannibal is shown counting the rings of Roman nobles killed at the battle of Cannae.

The row over Washington's selection in the film's lead role sparked a wave of criticism online, which then erupted in the halls of the Tunisian parliament, according to French outlet Courrier International.

Tunisian Member of Parliament Yassine Mami argued that the chamber 'needs to take a position on this subject', as he felt 'there is a risk of falsifying history.'

'This is about defending Tunisian identity and listening to the reactions of civil society,' he said.  

Tunisian newspaper La Presse also took a public stance against Washington's casting in an editorial, claiming that the decision is 'according to Tunisians and many observers, a historical error.' 

Washington is set to team up with director Anthony Fuqua in the film, the latest in a long line of collaborations between the pair. 

Hannibal was born in 247 BC and was of West Asian Semitic origin, being born in the region of Carthage - now Tunis, the capital of Tunisia. 

He is considered by many historians to be among the greatest military leaders in history, and his career included a famous siege of Rome in 218 BC when he led African war elephants across the Alps. 

Denzel Washington (right) is set to team up again with director Antoine Fuqua (left) in the blockbuster Hannibal. The two have collaborated a number of times

Hannibal was of West Asian Semitic origin, and was born in the region of Carthage - now Tunis, the capital of Tunisia 

Experts agree that he was of Phoenician heritage.

Tunisia's outrage at the casting has come at a time of heightened racial tensions in the nation, which has seen President Kais Saied allege that sub-Saharan migrants are flooding the nation to turn the majority-Arab nation 'purely African.' 

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Tunisians vowed to 'avenge' the death of a 41-year-old Tunisian man after he was stabbed to death during an altercation with three suspected Cameroonian migrants

Hundreds of Tunisians gathered in the streets and blockaded streets by burning tyres while demanding the eviction of all illegal migrants.

Dozens of African migrants were left injured after being thrown from balconies and attacked with 'swords'.

Police chased dozens of migrants from their homes to the cheers of city residents, before loading them into police cars.

Footage showed migrants lying on the ground, their hands on their heads, surrounded by residents armed with sticks, who waited for police to arrive to hand them over.

Police then detained some migrants and deported them as far away as the Libyan border, more than 200 miles away.

President Kais Saied accused hordes of illegal migrants of bringing violence and alleged a 'criminal plot' to change the country's demographic make-up.

He ordered security forces to expel any migrants living in Tunisia illegally. 

Sub-Saharan African migrants protest outside the headquarters of the International Organisation for Migration to demand their evacuation from Tunisia

Migrants shout in front of the UNHCR headquarters in Tunisia

Ivorians outside their country’s embassy in Tunis.