Charlottesville Vice Mayor Wes Bellamy, left, shares a laugh before speaking at the state NAACP Youth and College Division Leadership Breakfast on Sunday with Montae Taylor, the division’s new state president, and Danyelle Honor, president of the University of Virginia NAACP chapter.
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‘Do not sell your soul or your vote for a chicken box’
The fight for justice doesn’t end with the removal of Confederate monuments. “If the Negro is to be free, we must sign our own proclamation,” Wes Bellamy, Charlottesville’s vice mayor told the audience at the state NAACP Youth and College Division’s Leadership Breakfast on Sunday. He was quoting Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. “People give us what they want to give us because they believe it’s all that we will take,” he said. “Do not sell your soul or your vote for a chicken box.”
