A civil rights leader in Illinois is facing calls to resign after referring to migrants as “savages” during a Zoom meeting.
NAACP Illinois State Conference President Teresa Haley was recorded in a virtual meeting calling migrants “savages” and claiming they are “raping people” in a video that was released by former DuPage County NAACP President Patrick Watson on Tuesday.
Haley made the comments to argue that Black residents enduring homelessness are not given the same aid as migrants during a Oct. 26 Zoom meeting.
“Black people have been on the streets forever and ever,” Haley says. "And nobody cares, because they say that we’re drug addicts, we’ve got mental health issues.”
She continued: “But these immigrants who come over here, they’ve been raping people, they’ve been breaking into homes,” she continues. "They’re like savages as well! They don’t speak the language and they look at us like we’re crazy.”
One thing I’ve come to realize is most people who who disparage others are simply directing eyes away from themselves. Projecting. Casting illusions, and what I mean isn’t necessarily what they’re saying is or isn’t true (though often it is maybe a truth or half-truth), it’s simply meant to cast the illusion that they are somehow “better” than they actually are.
I’m trying to fathom at how much better off we’d be , collectively speaking, if people who do this would spend a little time going within and figuring out how to be a bit better today than they were, yesterday, instead of trying to figure out how to look better, externally.
I hope that makes sense. I need a nap.
Edited for capitalization and autocorrect.
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