Black Leaders Demand Apology from Obama, Lynch, Cooper over HB2

Religious and civil rights leaders in the black community called out the Obama Administration and U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch and state Attorney General Roy Cooper during a press conference at a hotel where Cooper was holding an event today.

John Amanchukwu, executive director of the Upper Room Christian Academy, was joined by other religious leaders to decry the actions of the Obama Administration relating the gntuation facing transgendered students in schools to Jim Crow era laws holding blacks down.

Amanchukwu also called out Cooper for not signing onto a lawsuit with 11 other states suing the federal government over its directive to public schools to allow students to choose the gender-specific facility of their choice based on their preferred gender identity.

“We’re here to speak out about our attorney general’s failure to speak out and to sign the lawsuit that came out today,” he said. “Eleven states, and I will name those states – Texas, Alabama, Wisconsin, West Virginia, Tennessee, Arizona, Maine, Oklahoma, Louisiana, Utah and Georgia – signed on to sue the Obama administration and Loretta Lynch for the false accusations that they have made about transgenderism and the directive that (Obama) placed upon schools to allow space for transgendered students in the school system.

“But our attorney general in our state, Roy Cooper, has failed to sign onto the lawsuit, that’s the reason why North Carolina was not mentioned. What we have today is simple: as a black American in this state it’s an insult and it’s a racial slur to compare the transgender movement to the civil rights movement.”

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