Rev. (Now Bishop) William Barber is leading a Poor People’s Campaign and creating a moral movement for change. I saw a good article today that describes his teachings about the “trick”:
The trick is when white politicians persuade poor white working class people that the source of their pain is people of color, immigrants and other scapegoats, says Barber, who rose to national fame after helping lead Moral Mondays, a social justice movement formed in North Carolina.
"You have to show them the trick," says Barber, his rich, baritone shifting into preaching mode when asked how he would address this challenge.
"The majority of people in this country who are poor are white people. You have to undermine the trick and say, 'Listen, you want a living wage, but the people you voted for don't want a living wage. You're upset that you don't have health care. Guess what, black and Latino people aren't your problems. It's the people who are voting against health care.' "
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Call the new poor people's movement a civil rights campaign, though, and Barber immediately pounces.
"That language is too puny -- it's designed to divide," he says. "We didn't build a white movement or a black movement [in North Carolina]. We built a moral movement."
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This is the way forward. A moral movement that unites.
You have to show them the trick.