Rev. Barber has been fighting oppression in North Carolina and elsewhere for a long time. He is a hero of the movement for justice and equality in many ways. Here’s a little about him:
William J. Barber II (born August 30, 1963) is a Protestant minister and political leader in North Carolina. He is a member of the national board of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) and the chair of their Legislative Political Action Committee. Since 2006 he has been president of the NAACP's North Carolina state chapter, the largest in the Southern United States and the second-largest in the country.[1] Barber has served as pastor of Greenleaf Christian Church (Disciples of Christ), in Goldsboro, NC since 1993.
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Beginning in April 2013, Barber led regular "Moral Mondays" civil-rights protests in North Carolina's state capital, Raleigh.[2]
He gave a great speech at the Democratic National Convention supporting Hillary’s nomination. The Nation: Americans Who’d Never Heard of Reverend William Barber II Won’t Be Able to Forget Him After Last Night His remarkable speech at the DNC put racial, social, and economic justice at the center of the 2016 campaign.
Yesterday, he tweeted the following:
You cannot address America’s economic issues without addressing racism and you cannot address racism without addressing economics.
Not one or the other. Both.