Washington, D.C. (January 27, 2022) – Today, National Urban League President and CEO Marc H. Morial issued the following statement in response to U.S. Supreme Court Justice Breyer’s retirement announcement:

"Granted, this is not the bigotry of torches and hoods. No, this rhetorical decoupling of ‘African’ and ‘American,’ of Black people from normal human functions, represents ‘only’ the bigotry of the implicit assumption..."