{"id":2114,"date":"2011-04-27T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-04-27T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2011\/04\/naacp-boycotting-arizona-leigh-touchton.html"},"modified":"2011-04-27T09:00:00","modified_gmt":"2011-04-27T13:00:00","slug":"naacp-boycotting-arizona-leigh-touchton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2011\/04\/naacp-boycotting-arizona-leigh-touchton.html","title":{"rendered":"NAACP boycotting Arizona &mdash;Leigh Touchton"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This came in as a comment yesterday on<br \/>\n<a href=\"\/blog\/2011\/04\/georgia-first-to-copy-arizona-anti-immigrant-bill.html\"><br \/>\nGeorgia first to copy Arizona anti-immigrant bill<\/a>. -jsq<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.blackenterprise.com\/2010\/05\/20\/naacp-joins-boycott-of-arizona\/\"><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:right;border:none;\"   src=\"http:\/\/www.blackenterprise.com\/files\/2010\/05\/shutterstock_52226536-199x300.jpg\"><\/a><br \/>\nThank you for posting this, Mr. Quarterman. The NAACP is one of the<br \/>\ngroups boycotting Arizona over its anti-Hispanic &#8220;immigration&#8221; law<br \/>\n(which really does nothing except racially profile American citizens<br \/>\nwho happen to have brown skin.)<\/p>\n<p>\nMore on the NAACP boycott of Arizona can be found here.<\/p>\n<p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.blackenterprise.com\/2010\/05\/20\/naacp-joins-boycott-of-arizona\/\"><br \/>\nhttp:\/\/www.blackenterprise.com\/2010\/05\/20\/naacp-joins-boycott-of-arizona\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\n-Leigh Touchton\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>A quote from that article. -jsq<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n&#8220;We are joining this lawsuit because the Arizona law is out of step with<br \/>\nAmerican values of fairness and equality,&#8221; said Benjamin Todd Jealous,<br \/>\nPresident and Chief Executive Officer of the NAACP. &#8220;It encourages<br \/>\nracial profiling and is unconstitutional. African Americans know all<br \/>\ntoo well the insidious effects of racial profiling.&#8221;\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This came in as a comment yesterday on Georgia first to copy Arizona anti-immigrant bill. -jsq Thank you for posting this, Mr. Quarterman. The NAACP is one of the groups boycotting Arizona over its anti-Hispanic &#8220;immigration&#8221; law (which really does nothing except racially profile American citizens who happen to have brown skin.) More on the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[97,1113,1381,72,2951,178],"tags":[3611,1124,4644,4643,4642,4025,8830,4020,8863],"class_list":["post-2114","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-activism","category-cca","category-immigration","category-incarceration","category-naacp","category-vlcia","tag-african-american","tag-arizona","tag-benjamin-todd-jealous","tag-equality","tag-fiarness","tag-hispanic","tag-immigration","tag-leigh-touchton","tag-naacp"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2114","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2114"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2114\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}