I'm glad I didn't miss it: Transcript of The Rev. Dr. William Barber at NN14 [View all]

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Excerpt from the transcript. Well worth reading.

A few weeks ago, a few weeks ago we were invited to Mitchell County. Mitchell County is 99% percent white, 89% Republican. They said years ago we could never organize in Mitchell County. But a few months ago we went up and we were invited to Mitchell County



And I'm here to tell you we went up there with this moral agenda, we found out that Mitchell County and up in the mountains, there's not a lot of difference between mountain populism and civil rights activism.

We found out that people in the mountains need labor rights and need unemployment and need health care and need public education.

And now the Republican chair of the party renounced the party and resigned because he said it's been taken over by extremism.

Now in Mitchell County we have a branch of the NAACP and we've never had one there in the history of the country, and it's the most diverse branch of the NAACP anywhere.

I'm telling you it works!

And I tell this story everywhere I go the only problem I have about those folk up in Mitchell County and those mountain people—they are some radical people—when I was up there it was night time and after I finished speaking they asked me they said Rev. Barber would you lead us on a march. I said march where? They said we want to march on the tea party extremist legislator's house to tell him how much we disagree with him. I said wait a minute white people. I said I'm all about marching but y'all started that marching at night. black folk don't march at night. But you call a march in the daytime and we'll be there. So we called a march in Asheville and 10,000 people showed up in the mountains.

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