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Rev. Dr. William J. Barber II

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7 Nov

This is more than a victory for Biden and Harris. This is a victory for democracy. When all the votes are counted, some 80 million Americans will have voted to end the Trumpism politics of lies, greed and the lust for power.

An unprecedented coalition of American people have said clearly, "We cannot go backwards. We are going forward together."

People did not turnout in record numbers in the midst of a pandemic to vote for a return to normal.

We have elected Biden and Harris to use the power of government to lift up those who have been battered by COVID-19, battered by poverty, and battered by years of Republican extremism.

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Rev. Dr. William J. Barber II

@RevDrBarber

7 Nov

Psalm 118

15
Shouts of joy and victory
    resound in the tents of the righteous:
“The Lord’s right hand has done mighty things!

16
    The Lord’s right hand is lifted high;
    the Lord’s right hand has done mighty things!”

17
I will not die but live,
and will proclaim what the Lord has done.

18
The Lord has chastened me severely,
but he has not given me over to death.

19
Open for me the gates of the righteous;
I will enter and give thanks to the Lord.

20
This is the gate of the Lord
through which the righteous may enter.

21
I will give you thanks, for you answered me;
you have become my salvation.

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Rev. Dr. William J. Barber II

@RevDrBarber

6 Nov

Already so-called "centrist" Democrats are blaming liberals, claiming they are the reason for losing some House seats and not taking the Senate. This analysis is too shallow. The language of left vs. right vs. centrist is too puny.

Why are they saying Medicare For All is "socialism"? It's not true. 62% of Americans want to raise the minimum wage, and the majority want universal health care.

Democrats don’t need to become "centrist." They need to put lifting the poor & expanding the electorate at the center. Even with this election, millions still did not vote. Democrats need to do across the South what was done in Georgia to expand the electorate.

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Rev. Dr. William J. Barber II

@RevDrBarber

5 Nov

Some say Trump is going to do this or that if he loses. But he will be one man when he loses; we are the people. We don’t have to listen to him lie. The people have spoken.

Remember, God is not dead. Trump does not have the final word. Every despot in history has become a mere footnote when exposed.

A white man & a Black woman will win w/ more votes than any ticket ever in the middle of a pandemic, historic voter suppression, after choosing to run on raising min wage to $15/hr & a union, expanding healthcare & addressing systemic racism.

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Rev. Dr. William J. Barber II

@RevDrBarber

26 Oct

I’m thinking of Frederick Douglass’ response to the Dred Scott decision:

“Such a decision cannot stand. God will be true though every man be a liar. We can appeal from this hell-black judgment of the Supreme Court, to the court of common sense and common humanity.

We can appeal from man to God. If there is no justice on earth, there is yet justice in heaven.”

“You may close your Supreme Court against the black man's cry for justice, but you cannot, thank God, close against him the ear of a sympathising world,

nor shut up the Court of Heaven. All that is merciful and just, on earth and in Heaven, will execrate and despise this edict of Taney.”

“As monstrous as it appears, we can meet it in a cheerful spirit.

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Rev. Dr. William J. Barber II

@RevDrBarber

20 Oct

This country cannot be a genuine democracy until we address the interlocking injustices that impact the 140 million poor and low-income people here:

systemic racism in all its forms, from voter suppression to mass incarceration to resegregation of public schools to the mistreatment of our Latino brothers and sisters and immigrants to the continuing injustice toward indigenous people.

There is ecological devastation, denial of health care. Conviction is something you don’t pick up when you’re born. You learn it through historical osmosis.

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