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12 Jan, 4 tweets, 2 min read
Exactly. That is why it was important that @POTUS declared he is tired of being silent. Theologically, I wish he had said, “I’m sorry I was ever silent,” because we should’ve never treated this like normal politics.

This should have been all one fight, and we should have been as loud about voting rights as infrastructure and Build Back Better, all as one. But now we are going to fight and declare that Washington’s manipulating games and deals have no place here.
From today forward, I want us all to remember another 6th anniversary. Not the 6th of January but the 6th of August 1965, when President LBJ signed the Voting Rights Act & declared, “Today is a triumph for freedom as huge as any victory that has ever been won on any battlefield.”
More important than any battle won on any battlefield. When we are attacked militarily, no president or congressperson would ever be silent. War is a threat to our existence. Attacking & undermining voting rights is also a threat to our existence, and it’s time we act like it.

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13 Jan
This is a damn shame to have to do all of this to protect the promises of the 14th and 15th amendments and the right to vote.

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Anyone who agreed to stand down and wait a year after the inauguration and insurrection to push to fix the VRA is just as guilty to seeding power and influence to Manchin and Sinema as anyone else. But redemption is always possible, if we all chip in and do our part now.
Let’s not forget that the VRA has been before the Congress since 2013. Ever since June 25, 2013, when the Shelby decision said the Congress had to write a new coverage formula.
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All of the people & GA activists that challenged the President today stand in the same tradition of John Lewis when he challenged JFK at the March on Washington in 1963. Some civil rights groups didn’t like it then, but John Lewis was right. And those activists were right today,
and the President would do well to meet with them & diverse moral & religious leaders, as we have been asking for months but his handlers have not facilitated.
Read what John Lewis did 59 years ago: “It is true that we support the administration’s civil rights bill. We support it with great reservations, however.
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9 Jan
In “Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner?” Sidney Poitier said this line to his father, “I love you, but you think of yourself as a Black man. I think of myself as a man.” This line needs to be embraced today.
Someone asked me, “Are you a Black preacher?” No, I first see myself as a preacher, able to be in any place, the pulpit, the streets, etc. This is why I resist and fight anytime racism and classism seeks to treat me as less than a man.
For instance, some say @VP Kamala Harris is a Black woman and a Black vice president. No, she is first a woman and the Vice President, and this is why she must resist any limits and blocks that are tried to be placed upon her.
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7 Jan
Some reflections on today:

1) We must truly remember and understand this history:


2) Everybody doesn’t come to do good.

3) Believing lies is as American as believing racism, classism, and homophobia. It’s not something strange.
4) America, in some sense, is in a constant political civil war.

5) To support the policies of the current Republican party is to believe in and support a rolling insurrection.
6) We have not always been able to come out of our problems with just education and elections. It has taken civil war, labor movements, martyrs, and sacrificial suffering.
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6 Jan
WATCH: #PoorPeoplesCampaign National Prayer Call | From Insurrection to Resurrection twitter.com/i/broadcasts/1…
“Hate evil and love good,
then work it out in the public square.
Maybe God, the God-of-the-Angel-Armies,
will notice your remnant and be gracious.”

Amos 5:15 (The Message)

biblegateway.com/passage/?searc…
Praying now: Rev. Traci Blackmon, one of 21 faith leaders who are joining @MadisonSiriusXM in his hunger strike for voting rights starting today. #Jan6th Rev. Traci Blackmon
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6 Jan
I’m listening to U.S. Capitol officers Harry Dunn and Michael Fanone who were attacked on #Jan6th. They said we shouldn’t call this an anniversary, because January 6th is still going on. But we should tell the truth, which has not been told in full yet.
The more I look at this I’m moved to pray for my enemies and the enemies of democracy and humanity. I pray for them to be tracked down by a spirit of repentance. I pray for them not to be successful.
I pray for those who know better, who know lies when they see them and hear them, that they will stand up as the resurrection in word, deed, and commitment, and as living nonviolent witnesses against the violence, the lies, the greed, the racism, and the spirit of insurrection.
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