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Video: NAACP Denounces Racist HCDO Campaign Literature

NAACP Statement
Jersey City
05/29/03

For more information, please contact Kabili Tayari, e-mail: kabili_tayari@hotmail.com
or by phone at 201-333-3697

The Jersey City Branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People thank all of you for attending this press conference today. First for the record this press conference was planned and organized by the NAACP not by any elected or appointed officials. We invited all religious and community leaders to this press conference no matter who their candidates of choice are. We also invited leaders through out the New York-New Jersey region.

This subliminal scare tactic of using race in a campaign could be used against any non-white candidate, be he or she, black, Latino or Asian or any candidate of color. This is not about who you support for an elected office but supporting the correct, righteous fight against subliminal covert racist campaign tactics and literature. We denounce the Hudson County Democratic Party for their covert racism and subliminal racism. We demand the New Jersey Democratic Party and Governor James McGreevey denounce this subliminal racist literature distributed by the Hudson County Democratic Party in the 31st Legislative District.

Like a quilt, Hudson County, the 31st Legislative District and America have many patches of different races, colors, ethnicities and nationalities. And, each of God's human creations are entitled to respect first as human beings and second as Americans.

During a national presidential campaign the Republican Party became desperate and resorted to negative racist campaigning by portraying a black man as a criminal out to victimize white people. The Hudson County Democratic Party is doing the same thing in this campaign for the New Jersey Senate in the 31st district by portraying Mayor Glenn D. Cunningham as (1) lawless, (2) a threat to the white community especially senior citizens and (3) insensitive to white homeowners and white senior citizens.

In two pieces of literature Mayor Glenn D. Cunningham (an African- American) is portrayed as (1) a lawless public official in support of drugs, weapons and booze, and (2) a fiscal irresponsible public official/elected official who supports high taxes, and the homeowners, especially white homeowners, losing their homes.

The literature contains pictures of two white couples who are senior citizens and pictures with African-American Mayor Cunningham with the captions "Protect Our Families from Glenn D. Cunningham's Failures", "Protect Our families from High Tax Schemes" and "Glenn Cunningham Fails our Families". This type of campaign literature with racist innuendoes reflects the portrayals in the racist film Birth of A Nation in which Black elected officials are portrayed as a threat to white Americans.

The Hudson County Democratic Organization should give an apology to the Black community in the 31st district and stop this type of campaigning immediately. Governor McGreevy and the New Jersey State Democratic Party should denounce this type of racist campaigning immediately.

All campaigns should focus on the issues of the State of New Jersey and the 31st district such as the budget, Abbott vs. Burke, PAAD, co-pay insurance coverage, homeland security, the millionaires tax, campaign fundraising reform, auto insurance, welfare to work, tuition hikes, Breen Capital-Bulk Lien Sales, environment, garbage-waste disposal, transportation, jobs, property tax reform, economic development, fiscal responsibility, and not subliminal racist fear tactics

No person's ethnicity, race, sex or religion should be used to malign them or vilify them in an electoral campaign. The NAACP cannot support candidates but we do support issues. Right after the Willie Horton racist campaigning by the Republican Party in the campaign for President of the United States, both the Republican Party and Democratic Party agreed to refrain from negative, slanderous and racist fear tactics in electoral campaigns. The NAACP agrees with this agreement.

This is not about candidates. This is about right vs. wrong, this is about good vs. evil. Stereotyping a whole race of people, in this case the Black residents of the 31st Legislative District is wrong, evil and wicked. Again, this is not about candidates. For instance, tomorrow if the Hudson County Democratic Organization was opposing Harvey Smith, Joseph Charles, Donald Payne, Melissa Holloway or any other candidate of color the Democratic Party would distribute campaign literature which would have only pictures of white senior citizens, white homeowners, and white families stating protect our families. This type of negative campaigning which stereotypes Black people or any race of people, as a threat to white citizens will not be condoned. The NAACP and all who are here today condemn this type of campaigning.

Does the Governor's office and the New Jersey Democratic Party support this type of campaigning, which portrays a Black candidate as a threat to white senior citizens, white homeowners and white residents? Well, there is a campaign occurring in the 31st Legislative District where the Hudson County Democratic Party is asking whites to judge candidates by the color of their skin.

We are gathered here today because President Abraham Lincoln was the President of the United States during and at the end of the Civil War. The Civil War was not just an end to slavery but the beginning of a new America. It was the beginning of an America (to paraphrase Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King)

"where all citizens of America would be judge by the content of their character and not by the color of their skin. We demand the Hudson County Democratic Party, the Hudson County McGreevey team, the New Jersey Democratic Party and Governor James McGreevey denounce this racebaiting electoral campaign literature immediately which has been distributed in the 31st Legislative District.

We Americans are celebrating Memorial Day which is dedicated to American soldiers of all colors and races who were and are fighting for freedom, justice and democracy, and the human right to be respected as human beings.

Go to the New Jersey Democratic Convention call on their leaders to denounce which purports that a Black candidate is a threat to white seniors, white residents and white homeowners.

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