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Dems slam Cowboys for Trump boss for 'back to Africa' video - African American News Today - EIN News

RIO RANCHO, N.M. (AP) - Democrats and civil rights leaders in New Mexico are denouncing the leader of the Cowboys for Trump group after he posted a social media video calling for some Black athletes to "go back to Africa." The 35-minute speech from Otero County Commissioner Couy Griffin on Facebook live attacked Black NFL players who support standing before games for "Lift Ev'ry Voice and Sing" - traditionally known as the Black National Anthem - as a gesture of solidarity against racial injustice. "They want to destroy our country," Griffin said of the Black athletes and supporters of the song. "I got a better idea, why don't you go back to Africa and form your little football teams over in Africa and you can play on a(n) old beat-out dirt lot and you can play your Black national anthem there. How about that?" Griffin also offered to give people of color what he called a "101" lesson on racial identity and said anyone who does not identify as "American" first or opposes the Second Amendment right to bear arms should leave the U.S. or "go home." Griffin said he recorded the speech from a southern New Mexico mountaintop after fasting for three days as he contemplates the nation's political fate as the November election approaches. New Mexico Speaker of the House Brian Egolf tweeted late Monday that Griffin's comments were racist and that he should resign his Otero County Commissioner seat. "Nothing that happened on that mountain had anything to do with God," Egolf wrote. "You are a racist. You need to resign. To invoke the Lord in defense of your disgusting statements is the antithesis of the teachings of Christ. Shame on you." U.S. Rep. and Democratic Senate candidate Ben Ray Luján called on Democrats and Republicans...

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