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Feb 10 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
.@NFL commissioner Roger Goodell has not met with the full community until he meets with representatives of those who signed the letter calling for the 2023 Super Bowl to be moved from Arizona because of the actions of their senators.
The letter came from a diverse group of faith leaders and advocates—diverse by faith, age, race, and geographic area. Also, the meeting we desire is with NFL players and others impacted in the room.
Just like Black money is not a monolith, leadership is not a monolith, and faith leaders are not a monolith. There simply isn’t just one or two Black leaders who represent all Black people.

And the hiring of Black coaches in the NFL is not just a Black issue either.
When we fought & won the battle against racist voter suppression laws & gerrymandering, we came into court w/ a team of Black, white & Latino lawyers, male & female. There needs to be a meeting with Commissioner Goodell and other representatives of the NFL that looks like that.

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.@POTUS Biden, please be honest. The reality is the economy is not well, especially when it comes to poor and low-wealth people. But it’s not your fault. Layout what you are doing to undo what Trump did and to meet this moment. Talk about what you did in the rescue plan, but ...
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Go back to your original $3 trillion Build Back Better plan, what it would have done, and then be clear why you can’t go lower than that amount, because you care about essential workers and their families.
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What we must remember is that the policy positions Trump took moved people to follow him. And most Republicans, including McConnell, agreed w/ Trump’s policies. And if the policies don’t get challenged & debunked, an autocratic candidate will always be able to pick up the mantle.
Until McConnell, Graham, etc. admit they’re the ones who created Trump, the Republican Party is Trump, not the other way around. And until the RNC stops pushing the Reagan-type public policies that are full of racism and classism, they will simply trade one Trump for another.
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WATCH: Bishop William J. Barber II sermon “When Wise Black Men Show Us How to Walk Through This World” #WorshipCelebration twitter.com/i/broadcasts/1…
If you wish to make an offering/donation, you can do that online on the Greenleaf Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) website: greenleafchristiandoc.org/donate
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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
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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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WATCH: Protect Voting Rights & Pass Build Back Better Now | #PoorPeoplesCampaign Press Conference twitter.com/i/broadcasts/1…
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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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