We must denounce anti-Semitism & violence against Jewish people. Period. We must denounce violence against Palestinians & Muslim people. Period. Full stop.
We must denounce violence against Black people. We must denounce violence against Sikhs. We must denounce violence against Asians. Period. Full stop.
Against Native & indigenous people. Against Latino & other immigrants. Period. Full stop.
And each of these groups must denounce the violence against the other. No equivocation. Period. Full stop.
And the very fact that we have to separate it & can’t just say we denounce violence against all people made in the image of God shows our siloing of people’s suffering and pain. This is a sign of our need for a moral revival & revolution of values.
Yes, revolution.
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My dear friend @RepRaskin just said something that was short but full of truth: “War doesn’t work.” I agree. It doesn’t. There must be a ceasefire in Israel. The ancient Hebrew prophets knew it. The brown-skinned Palestinian Jew who I follow knew it. War doesn’t work.
Behind the scenes of war are always people on both sides who benefit from & use war as a destructive distraction from the real issues. We need a ceasefire in Israel on both sides.
Women & children on both sides are dying. They are disproportionately Palestinian, but I mourn the death of any human being made in the image of God—Muslim, Jewish, Christian or Hindu; people of faith and not of faith.
.@CapehartJ is right. We need to stop acting as if the Republican Party just got messed up with Trump. What we see now the @GOP has been building for over 50 years, and they know in America hate has a history of working.
And racism is not just in Republicanism. Just a few weeks ago, 8 white Democratic senators voted against a living wage bill that would have lifted over 40% of Black working poor people out of poverty.
Democrat Joe Manchin is swearing to maintain the filibuster even though doing so will give Republicans power to block voting rights laws and restoration of the Voting Rights Act and much more.
If we want corporations to step up, every civil rights organization that has received donations from corporations must now ask the same corporations, "Are you supporting the U.S. Senators who have blocked restoration of the Voting Rights Act for over 7 years and 9 months?
Have you given to ALEC, the group that is promoting voter suppression bills in state houses across the U.S.?”
If corporations speak out against voting laws and give social contributions to civil rights organizations but still invest in the Senators who are blocking the restoration of federal voting rights protections, then their public statements are just image management.
The Amazon workers who voted for a union in Bessemer are already winners. This is just the first round. Amazon did things to intimidate & suppress the vote. The workers are filing complaints, & they will continue to stand up.
They have set a fresh trend in the South, and the echoes of their bold action will reverberate for years.
In North Carolina, it took several years for us to unionize the Smithfield plant, the world's largest hog processing plant. Like them, the Bessemer workers will eventually win the vote.
WATCH NOW: 30 Pieces of Silver or the Savior | A Sermon by Rev. Dr. William J. Barber, II pscp.tv/w/cy8yNzFvTlFs…
Will you choose 30 pieces of silver or the Savior? #PalmSunday
"What will you give me?" is the question too many politicians ask, and they'll sell out the people they were elected to serve for some corporate money. #PalmSunday
If they have to, Democrats must call Sinema & Manchin's bluff. Even if they go over & join Republicans, Democrats have the House & the WH. Their coalition can’t get anything passed. Let them be fully exposed. Force them out in the open for betraying the people who elected them.
And then use their exposure to push for everyone to vote in 2022 to get enough Senate seats to break the filibuster & immediately pass living wages, massive infrastructure bill, addressing poverty, healthcare, & fill all vacancies.
Don’t let Manchin & Sinema stop voting rights & living wages. These are not just "Black issues." We shouldn't be talking about the fight to expand voting rights as only a Black racial issue. Dr. King & the marchers from Selma-to-Montgomery didn’t then & we shouldn’t now.