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Feb 5 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
The fight against racist police violence is not and never has been a denunciation of all police. Standing against violence and murder of police does not mean a person doesn’t support the efforts to reform racist police violence. Both things can be true at the same time.
I pastor a church with former police officers in it, and we support the efforts of police to secure the community. These same police officers denounce those who wear the uniform when they commit racist violence and murder against Black, brown, native, and poor white people.
If a police officer refuses to do their job, because one of their colleagues is prosecuted for murdering innocent people, or a police officer says their morale suffered, because they’re trained in reform that is long overdue to weed out bad actors or system flaws within policing,
I have to ask: Is your loss of morale connected to some latent agreement with the racist violence? Reform should revive police morale, because trust in police make us all safer.
Join us in Washington, D.C., on June 18 for the Mass Poor People’s & Low-Wage Workers’ Assembly & #MoralMarch on Washington & #ToThePolls!

Learn more and RSVP online now to let us know you are coming: poorpeoplescampaign.org/june18 #PoorPeoplesCampaign

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This thread is based on some of the words I shared with my dear friend @SenatorWarnock last night on the eve of the historic vote in the Senate:

This is a form of political crucifixion, but we will be the resurrection.
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.@SenatorTimScott said he would support Trump while former Trump staff and officials were actually trying to stop him. We have said a lot about Manchin and Sinema, but we need to call out Scott, a southern Black man who benefited from the VRA and the fight for voting rights.
Scott refuses to support fixing the Voting Rights Act and to support the For The People Act written by John Lewis.
He is the worst kind of hypocrite. He benefits from the suffering of those before him and then joins the forces of oppression. He hangs onto Trump like Stephen (Samuel L. Jackson) in “Django Unchained.”
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Jan 19
We in the movement must stop letting the tail wag the dog. Already some are saying the only way to deal with Sinema and Manchin is the next election. No, we can put pressure on them for the For The People Act that John Lewis wrote to be brought back up. It’s still an active bill.
But this time we should apply maximum moral pressure. The pressure should demand a larger Build Back Better plan, as well. The President, prior to Presidents Day, should meet with diverse religious leaders and impacted poor & low-wage people and then
let impacted people, surrounded by moral and religious leaders, take the mic and talk to the nation. The President should then go on a national tour, starting in West Virginia and Arizona, to promote this agenda to help all Americans.
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A new report out today from Oxfam finds that inequality has not only worsened over the last two years, it has become deadly.

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In stark terms: The wealth of the world’s 10 richest men has doubled since the pandemic began, from $700 billion to $1.5 trillion, at a rate of $1.3 billion a day.
Meanwhile, the incomes of 99% of humanity have fallen because of the pandemic and one person is dying every four seconds from lack of access to healthcare, gender-based violence, hunger and climate change.
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