NAACP issues first-ever travel advisory for a state

[HAB911]

and it’s Missouri

NAACP officials say their recent travel advisory for Missouri is the first that the civil rights group has issued for any state.

But the warning follows a recent trend of similar alerts issued by other groups for vulnerable people around the United States.

The travel advisory, circulated in June by the Missouri NAACP and recently taken up by the national organization, comes after travel alerts began appearing in recent years in light of police shootings in the U.S. and ahead of immigration legislation in Texas and Arizona.

The Missouri travel advisory is the first time an NAACP conference has ever made one state the subject of a warning about discrimination and racist attacks, a spokesman for the national organization said Tuesday.

http://www.kansascity.com/news/local/article164851802.html

[Solly Mack]

1. K&R

[temporary311]

2. Time for the Green Book

to make a comeback?

[dixiegrrrrl]

3. Ha!!! I was just gonna comment re: The Green Book.

Have you seen a copy of it? I found it online last year.

[angrychair]

6. Breaks my heart

The fact that in 2017 we are fighting on so many fronts just hold on to what should never have been taken is disturbing. That something like The Green Book may be needed again to protect people is a gut punch.

These are troubling and sad times.

[kerry-is-my-prez]

12. Right-wing/racist reaction against Obama. We took "1 step forward and about 10 steps backwards."

[BumRushDaShow]

11. I remember a post here on DU I believe about that

Site dedicated to it here - https://greenbookchronicles.com/

NYT article - https://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/07/arts/design/the-green-book-legacy-a-beacon-for-black-travelers.html?ref=oembed&_r=0



Trailer for documentary

vimeo.com/146908911

[Gothmog]

4. This is scary

[uponit7771]

5. WOW Missouri

[TheBlackAdder]

7. At the SIBLING SPOUSE WATERING HOLE, they're toasting "Mission Accomplished!"

[lpbk2713]

8. They have a bust of OxyRush in their Capitol's Hall of Fame.

Link: http://www.stltoday.com/news/local/govt-and-politics/petition-targets-missouri-capitol-s-rush-bust/article_d2d3a9ed-28f0-530a-94cd-98270be7ab1c.html

I think that speaks volumes.

[certainot]

9. and the university of Missouri supports 6 limbaugh stations

he spent a lot of time mocking michael brown and calling BLM a terrorist org etc

mizzou needs look for apolitical alts

[47of74]

10. Yeah I don't blame my sister and brother in law for deciding to leave.

[HeartachesNhangovers]

13. I was thinking I should avoid Maryland, given

how much the Baltimore PD seems to like to plant evidence on people.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

14. The state of misery

as we used to jokingly call it.

[ProudLib72]

15. The "Show Me The Way Out" state