A civil rights leader in Illinois is facing calls to resign after referring to migrants as “savages” during a Zoom meeting.

NAACP Illinois State Conference President Teresa Haley was recorded in a virtual meeting calling migrants “savages” and claiming they are “raping people” in a video that was released by former DuPage County NAACP President Patrick Watson on Tuesday.

Haley made the comments to argue that Black residents enduring homelessness are not given the same aid as migrants during a Oct. 26 Zoom meeting.

“Black people have been on the streets forever and ever,” Haley says. "And nobody cares, because they say that we’re drug addicts, we’ve got mental health issues.”

She continued: “But these immigrants who come over here, they’ve been raping people, they’ve been breaking into homes,” she continues. "They’re like savages as well! They don’t speak the language and they look at us like we’re crazy.”

  • Flying Squid
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    99 months ago

    Blaming AI will be the thing to do from now on. Any time anyone says anything atrocious- “It was AI.”

    • Maeve
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      39 months ago

      Is there a way to distinguish one from the other, for average joes?

      • Flying Squid
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        49 months ago

        Eventually, no. Currently, just look for things that don’t fit. Like extra fingers.

        • @roofuskit
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          29 months ago

          Stop spreading that, the finger issue has largely been solved with newer models.

        • Maeve
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          09 months ago

          Are you the user who recently posted a picture of the extra finger ring?

            • Maeve
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              19 months ago

              No worries, and no kidding, someone posted that and suggested it as a way to make videos look faked.