As President Trump traveled to Mississippi for the opening of the Mississippi Civil Rights Museum, the mayor of Jackson encouraged residents of the city to act role models for the rest of the world in promoting tolerance and equality.
“It is our mission not only to correct our ills, but to write a new narrative, to be a model for the rest of the world,” Mayor Chokwe Antar Lumumba said during a press conference Saturday, adding, “because it can be said, so goes Mississippi, so goes the rest of the world, because if we can change right here in the belly of the beast, we can see a change take place across the world.”
“If we can change right here in the belly of the beast, we can see a change in the world.” @LumumbaForMayor pic.twitter.com/fZbernsMRo— Annie Costabile (@AnnieCostabile) December 9, 2017
Trump landed in Jackson on Saturday morning and was greeted by Gov. Phil Bryant, as well as Republican Sen. Roger Wicker, Republican Rep. Gregg Harper, and Charles Evers, the brother of slain civil rights activist Medgar Evers.
The president will tour the Mississippi Civil Rights Museum and give remarks.
Lumumba, as well as Reps. John Lewis, D-Ga., and Bennie Thompson, D-Miss., are boycotting the opening of the museum.
Lewis and Thompson said the president’s attendance is an “insult” to the civil rights movement.
