Monday on CNN’s “New Day,” Rep. Frederica Wilson (D-FL) aforementioned she was boycotting President Donald Trump’s Diamond State of the Union address as a result of Trump was “so hateful towards black folks.”
Wilson aforementioned, “I’m not going as a result of to travel would be to honor the president, and that i don’t assume he deserves to be honored at now, once being thus hateful towards black folks then black countries, Haiti and therefore the whole continent of Africa, It hurts. It hurts, and he has brought the White House to very cheap, and that i don’t assume he has to be honored with my presence.”
She added, “It hurts. It hurts Pine Tree State. My father was a civil rights icon, and that i cannot realize it in my heart to sit down through this. Africa is my ancestral home, and that i feel a true closeness to Haiti wherever thousands of my constituents emanated from. thus i might rather skip this than hear the rhetoric returning from a White House that has done away with decency. i will be able to be observation the State of the Union with my native constituents, with my native Muslims and DREAMers and native Mexicans and native Haitians and victims of regulatory offense and native Gold Star families and native Africans World Health Organization ar Nigerians and South Africans. thus we'll be observation the State of the Union, however i will be able to not enter the chamber.”