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Georgia NAACP ‘Defies’ Guv: Calls for ‘Black Out, Sick Out’
The Atlanta-area chapters of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) is urging its membership to “defy the governor’s” ill-thought-out executive order to end Georgia’s shutdown of specific businesses and government facilities by remaining home for the duration of the coronavirus pandemic.
Governor Brian Kemp announced earlier this week that beauty and barber salons, gyms, tattoo parlors, nail parlors and bowling alleys will be allowed to reopen today, April 24. Restaurants and theaters are to follow suit on Monday.
Interestingly, Kemp’s order has also been panned by Donald Trump who has stated that he “strongly” disagreed with Kemp’s decision. Trump’s “disagreement,” however, comes only one day after both he and VP Pence actually encouraged Kemp to reopen the entire state.
Using social media, the Atlanta NAACP has called for a “Black Out, Sick Out” of heretofore “non-essential” Georgia businesses beginning this morning.
The reckless and unilateral decision of Governor Brian Kemp places at risk communities in direct danger of COVID-19 or coronavirus, wrote the organization. The NCAAP is calling on citizens to push back on Brian Kemp.
And, in a follow-up press release yesterday, the NAACP argued that returning to…
