It is titled Americans Who’d Never Heard of Reverend William Barber II Won’t Be Able to Forget Him After Last Night, a sentiment with which anyone here who listened to him last night would agree.
The subtitle is His remarkable speech at the DNC put racial, social, and economic justice at the center of the 2016 campaign.
I strongly urge you to read the entire piece.
I want to quote part of what Rev. Barber said to Berman:
I asked Barber this morning why he spoke at the DNC. He told me, “I didn’t ask to speak or seek to speak. We tried to deliver our higher ground moral declaration to the RNC—they refused to meet with us. We did deliver it to the DNC.
“The stuff at the GOP convention that literally bordered on heresy—when I hear a candidate say ‘I alone can fix’ that, that’s like hearing Caesar talk during the days of Jesus or the bad kings during the days of the prophet.
“I prayed about if the opportunity came [to speak at the DNC], I might consider it, in light of this political idolatry that Trump represents. These are times that try men and womens’ souls. We have not heard the type of things we’ve heard from Trump since George Wallace in 1968.
“Sometimes you have to take a personal stand…. I made it clear I wasn’t going to speak unless I had the freedom to say what I believed.”
He had that freedom, and as a result we all benefited.
Go read the entire piece.
There is more, but this is what I most wanted to share.
Peace.