'People will no longer doubt the reason why the NAACP exists': Georgia NAACP president on Trump's DEI attacks

Georgia’s NAACP chapter president Gerald Griggs says that President Donald Trump’s controversial executive order ending “illegal DEI” and attacks on diversity, equity and inclusion in the federal workplace are already rolling the country back to the 1850s. But Griggs tells WABE’s “Morning Edition” it doesn’t hurt the NAACP’s case to keep fighting.

A civil rights attorney by trade, Griggs considers himself a zealous advocate for social justice, and he finds the recent moves by the Trump administration very unsettling.

“They’re reminiscent of the post-Reconstruction era, where we saw the rise of Jim Crow. They are reminiscent of the ’20s when we saw an administration that was fully intolerant of African American people and people of color,” Griggs told WABE.