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The Progressive National Baptist Convention, an organization that began to support and defend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr’s efforts during the Civil Rights Movement, has come to the defense of President Barack Obama.

During the organization’s annual meeting in Washington D.C. this past Friday, members rallied behind the president, calling for the ouster of elected officials who have slandered Obama with racial slurs.

Conventional wisdom suggests if comments like these were targeted to past holders of this nation’s highest office of another/preferred hue, serious repercussive actions would have immediately followed those making said comments,” reads a resolution passed during the PNBC’s annual meeting

Read more at the Huffington Post.

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