NEBRASKA- The University of Nebraska-Lincoln’s plan to address racism and racial inequity, which has been the subject of intense criticism from conservative politicians, received a ringing endorsement from the Omaha and Lincoln chapters of the NAACP.

At a press conference in North Omaha, Omaha NAACP President the Rev. T. Michael Williams and Vice President Preston Love Jr. commended the university and Chancellor Ronnie Green for releasing the plan to, as the university wrote in a campus-wide email, foster “an environment where we better recruit, retain, and support the success of students, faculty and staff who identify as Black, Indigenous and persons of color.” (Preston Love Jr. is a regular community columnist for The World-Herald.)

“This is not political correctness. It is the right thing to do,” Williams said.

M. Dewayne Mays, president of the Lincoln NAACP chapter, also praised UNL’s plan and offered the chapter’s support. Local NAACP leaders said they were not involved in the creation of the plan, dubbed a “Commitment to Action,” but pledged to work with the university and Green now that it has been released.

“We want to do everything that we can to support it and to hopefully push it forward,” Mays told The World-Herald. “We feel like it would be good for the community as well as the state.”

The press conference came two days before the University of Nebraska Board of Regents is scheduled to meet for the first time since UNL released its plan on Nov. 17.

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