NAACP issues its first statewide travel advisory, for Missouri
Source: CNN
Updated 12:11 PM ET, Thu August 3, 2017
Story highlights
The advisory warns of "looming danger" in Missouri
A state law regarding discrimination lawsuits prompted the warning
(CNN)The NAACP is sending a strong message to people of color traveling through Missouri: Go at your own risk.
The organization is circulating a travel advisory after the state passed a law that Missouri's NAACP conference says allows for legal discrimination. The warning cites several discriminatory incidents in Missouri, included as examples of "looming danger" in the state.
The NAACP says this is the first travel advisory ever issued by the organization, at the state or national level. The Missouri conference initially published the advisory in June, and it was recognized nationally at the NAACP's annual convention last week.
"Individuals traveling in the state are advised to travel with extreme CAUTION," the advisory warns. "Race, gender and color based crimes have a long history in Missouri."
Why now?
The advisory was issued after Senate Bill 43 -- which makes it more difficult for employees to prove their protected class, like race or gender, directly led to unlawful discrimination -- passed through the Missouri Legislature in June. Missouri Gov. Eric Greitens signed it into law soon after.
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According to the law that they link to, not so much.
It changes the standard for proving discrimination if you're an employee or feel discriminated against in a place of business ("public accommodation"
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Get beat up because you're black and you're still beat up. If they yelled racial epithets, it's still a hate crime. Otherwise, it's a bear to prove it's a hate crime.
Get crappy service because you're black, and you can't just say and have it accepted as proven that since of the 80% of the customers that are white 90% got crappy service while of the 20% that are black 70% got crappy service it's automatically discrimination.
