The Virginian-Pilot
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NORFOLK
A Facebook post by the president of the Norfolk NAACP about the George Zimmerman trial has sparked criticism.
According to an image of the post shown on WAVY-TV, Tristan Breaux, 25, wrote, "I wonder why is it that we are always willing to say someone who clearly had a shaky past, was the victim. Are we blinded about why Trayvon was at his dad's house in the first place, and why he wasn't at home at the time he was shot? Please think logically and not racially."
Several local NAACP members asked Breaux to take the post down, and he initially refused, said Jeffrey Logan, a former member of the local chapter's executive committee.
The post went up last week. Breaux's Facebook page is no longer visible.
"With a sensitive issue like this, for an NAACP president to post that - it's not a good thing," said former Norfolk NAACP President Bob Rawls.
Logan and Rawls said Breaux should resign his position.
Members of the branch's executive committee said they have no plans to seek his removal.
Breaux, the youngest president in the branch's history, did not return phone calls seeking comment. He became president in January.
Corinne Reilly, 757-446-2277, corinne.reilly@pilotonline.com
Source: http://hamptonroads.com/2013/07/norfolk-naacp-president-under-fire-facebook-post
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