Posted on 08/12/2013 10:14:30 AM PDT by kevcol
LEE COUNTY, FL -
The local branch of the NAACP is asking the Justice Department to investigate Lee County Sheriff Mike Scott. The request comes after a controversial letter sent by the sheriff calls out the civil rights group for not doing enough to stop black-on-black crime.
In the letter, the Sheriff uses the "N" word, prompting the organization's president James Muwakkil to call the Sheriff a racist. He later retracted the comment.
Now voicemail messages Muwakkil left for the Sheriff contradicting the NAACP's agenda have been released.
Sheriff Scott responded to the inquiry by saying he thinks "federal involvement is laughable."
The response from the local NAACP executive board is more subdued.
"The federal intervention is something that's new to us as VP's, the president did let us know that he was contacting national," said executive board member Nancy Kelley Simms.
Monday, Sheriff Scott released two voice messages Muwakkil sent him in late July after the NAACP board voted unanimously for Muwakkil to not meet with Sheriff Scott.
"I do agree with you on some of the points you made regarding the black on black crime and especially hip hop community using the n-word all the time and none of it, and no black leadership is speaking against it," Muwakkil said in the message.
The messages -- which board members heard for the first time today -- left members wondering how the federal government can interject now that their president is on record agreeing with the sheriff.
"If were going to be united than we need to get on the same page," Simms said.
Some board members are still hesitant that federal action is needed.
"I'm not sure about that at this point," Simms said.
Federal intervention or not, the local NAACP says they still have no intention of meeting with the Sheriff.
He did...alas, it was in cursive.
The NAAPC can’t take it. You tell them the truth and all they want to do is HIDE THE DECLINE.
I kinda thought as much. Once again, the MSM skews things to suit their perception of how the story should be told.
The NAACP is nothing more than the Black Ku Klux Klan
Folks need to wake up
Eric Holder is an oozing pustule on the butt of justice and liberty. This corrupt racist isn’t fit to chase an ambulance, must less be the nation’s top lawyer.
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