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Rev. Dr. William J. Barber II

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Feb 5

Yesterday the NC Supreme Court honored the powerful protections in the NC Constitution—a Reconstruction Constitution forged by a historic, fusion, multi-racial government—that makes the right to vote a fundamental one in the state of North Carolina.

It is protected here by the Equal Protection Clause, the Free Elections Clause, the Free Speech Clause, and the Freedom of Assembly Clause of the NC Constitution. The court found that the maps passed by the NCGA violated all of those provisions

and are “unconstitutional beyond a reasonable doubt” under NC law. The NC Supreme Court made history in finding partisan gerrymandering was recognized under the NC Constitution as unconstitutional,

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Rev. Dr. William J. Barber II

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Feb 5

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,

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Rev. Dr. William J. Barber II

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Feb 3

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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

Congress ratified the 15th Amendment on Feb. 3, 1870, but states used poll taxes, literacy tests, and other ways to block its implementation and abridge the right to vote. Now senators are refusing to take action and stop new voter suppression laws.

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Rev. Dr. William J. Barber II

@RevDrBarber

Jan 20

@SenatorWarnock

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.

I don’t like using war metaphors, but when the U.S. suffered a sneak attack at Pearl Harbor, the nation didn’t quit. She got stronger, and FDR went harder. He didn’t ask for less, he asked for more.

When President Johnson signed the Voting Rights Act into law, he called the day “a triumph for freedom as huge as any victory that has ever been won on any battlefield.” We must see that the war on democracy is ongoing, and we must treat it with the same urgency and seriousness.

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Rev. Dr. William J. Barber II

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Jan 19

@SenatorTimScott

.@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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Rev. Dr. William J. Barber II

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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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