You know why. The bathroom bill, voter suppression, and the coup. North Carolina is not a democracy.
“Enough is enough,” said Reverend Dr. William Barber, the president of the North Carolina NAACP. “We must draw a line in the sand. Other states will know that there will be a price to pay whenever people attempt to use a temporary majority status to run roughshod over the Constitution. We need to send the message that if they try this, the people will resist.”
Barber said soon after Christmas, his state conference will send a request to the national NAACP board calling for a national economic boycott of North Carolina. The boycott would continue until state lawmakers fulfill three demands: repeal HB2 in its entirety, repeal another bill Republicans passed in a special session last week giving themselves power over all state and county boards of elections in every year a major election is held, and redraw the state’s racially gerrymandered district maps that have allowed Republicans to maintain a super-majority in the statehouse.
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“We want the nation to know that this is not just about bathrooms,” Barber said. “We have in this state an attempt by a few people who are deeply unpopular to run a modern-day, southern, coup d’etat. We are calling on the nation to join us in putting on the pressure.”
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Resist!