NAACP Freedom Fund Dinner brings state leaders to Detroit on Sunday

With midterm elections a couple of months away, voting rights, re-districting and voter suppression payments topped the agenda at Sunday’s 67th NAACP Battle for Freedom Fund Dinner in Detroit.

“We won’t be performed on by politicians who need our vote, not our voice,” stated Rev. Wendell Anthony, president of the NAACP’s Detroit chapter. “We had probably the most turnout in 2020, and that’s one of many causes they launched all these voter suppression payments.”

The dinner comes lower than a month after Patrick Lyoya was killed by a police officer in Grand Rapids.

“We’ll proceed to demand justice and equity from each police division within the state as we witness one other execution type homicide of a Black man named Lyoya,” Anthony stated.

A horde of Democratic state leaders deliberate to attend, together with Sen. Debbie Stabenow, Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, Lt. Gov. Garlin Gilchrist and Detroit Mayor Mike Duggan.

“Defending freedom at any value is about having one another me backs and displaying up collectively,” Whitmer stated.

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The theme for this yr’s dinner is “Freedom is pricey however tyranny is unaffordable.”

“Too many extremists are taking part in free with the governments, utilizing the dream of MLK as a scheme to camouflage to take us again to the great dangerous days of separate and unequal,” Anthony stated.