NC Religious Leaders and NC NAACP To Issue Moral Call to Action

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

21 April 2013

For More Information:        Rev. Dr. William J. Barber, President, 919-394-8137

      Mrs. Amina J. Turner, Executive Director, 919-682-4700

For Media Assistance:        Rob Stephens, Field Secretary, 336-577-9335

"What does the Lord require of you?  Do justice, love mercy and walk humbly with God."-Micah 6:8

"Truly I tell you, whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers and sisters of mine, you did for me."-Matthew 25:40

We are at a Moral Crossroads. Join us as we call our people to prayer.  Join us to call the General Assembly to reject the Moral Low Ground.  Join us to discuss the Moral High Ground of Nonviolent Protest and Peaceful Assembly to Reject the Old South.

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North Carolina NAACP Statement on Repeal of the Racial Justice Act

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

April 4, 2013

For More Information:           Rev. Dr. William J. Barber, II, President, 919-394-8137

                                               Mrs. Amina J. Turner, Executive Director, 919-682-4700

For Media Assistance:            Rob Stephens, Field Secretary, 336-577-9335

Download PDF of Statement

NC Senate Votes to Restart Racially Biased Death Penalty

            Forty-five years ago today, the world lost one of its greatest prophetic leaders of the modern age. On April 4, 1968, Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was shot down on the balcony of the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, in the middle of his most ambitious vision to date: the Poor People's Campaign. Two years ago, on the 43rd anniversary of Dr. King's brutal murder, the NC General Assembly chose to "honor" his legacy by introducing a bill that gutted the Racial Justice Act of its strongest provisions that attempted to rid racial bias from the application of capital punishment in NC.

            This General Assembly seems to have a disposition to introducing its most radical and blatantly racist legislation around Dr. King's last day on earth. The NC Senate's decision to pass an extreme piece of legislation yesterday is disturbing. They want to simultaneously cut current protections against discrimination under RJA while speeding up and making it easier to kill people. 

NAACP Wants Sally to Resign, good luck

I’m afraid that no matter what this Cow will stay in office.

NAACP state president Anthony Douglas wants Kern to resign. “This is an outrage. We're calling for her to go today. She needs to step down now," he said. Under the leadership of Benjamin Todd Jealous, the NAACP has accelerated its support of gay rights and sought to recruit more gay leaders and people from diverse racial backgrounds. Kern apologized for her remarks Thursday. While the speaker of the House Kris Steele said he disagreed with her, he accepted the apology, reports KOCO TV. State representative Mike Shelton said he wants Kern reprimanded. "There is no place for those kind of comments on the floor of the Oklahoma House of Representatives or the Oklahoma State Senate," Sheldon said.

because Sally Kern the Oklahoma legislator said that black people have higher rates of imprisonment because they are lazy.

HK on J March Raleigh Tweets post 3

We were there! It was an awesome experience! RT @ncjustice: Far, far more people at #hkonj this year than last.

We cannot stop fighting for the racial justice act, we cannot leave these brothers and sisters imprisoned for crimes they didn't commit!

Happy Birthday @NAACP! 102 years strong! Special shout out to all those at #HKonJ #HKonJ5. Stand up, Be heard!

What would you do: 19 yrs in prison, 1 vote away from death penalty, for a crime you didn't commit? #RacialJusticeAct #HKonJ

Thrilled to see so many of our friends at HKonJ this morning! #ncpol #hkonj

#HKonJ so great to hear from Darryl Hunt, found innocent on grounds of Racial Justice Act

Phyllis Coley from Spectacular Magazine in #Durham speaking now. Exhorts media to "tell story right." Proud to have been on her show #hkonj

The people united will never be defeated! #HKonJ Egypt and Tunisia are proof for any doubters out there

Erin Byrd + member of NC HEAT leading chants now at #hkonj

"You have a responsibility. If you're not going to tell the story right, don't tell it at all." Advice to #NC media... #imjustsaying

Text "NCNAACP" to 46988 to stay connected. The people, united, will never be defeated! El Pueblo, unido, jamas sera vencido! #HKonJ @naacp

Thx! RT @RightsWorking: Awesome bilingual speech @NCDREAMTeam Rev Barber: Civil rights, immigration rights all go together! #hkonj #immyouth

Speakers are calling us to support the #StandUp4NC campaign! Make a video, take a picture, help stop brutal budget cuts! #hkonj

My 3rd #hkonj has been the largest, most powerful, inspirational + effective. Great combo of speeches, organizing, vision.

Gene Nichol of UNC Poverty Center (and JC board member) on stage now, supporting anti-poverty conference #hkonj

Rev. Barber's closing speech: "We don't have to hate anybody or use vitriolic language. Truth is enough." #hkonj

Rev. Barber's closing speech: the crowd all holds hands and raises them in the air. Powerful. #hkonj http://ow.ly/i/86qS

HK on J March Raleigh Tweets post 2

So, you say you want a revolution?

The excellent corporate puppet by @democracync at #hkonj http://ow.ly/i/86iW

George Reed of NC Council of Churches speaking against "sin of resegregation." "Diversity in schools
benefits all children." #hkonj

Seth from NC HEAT representing the youth of Wake County, fighting for the diversity policy. Breaking up Wake's policy hurts ALL students!

RT @NCStateAFLCIO: NOW: #HKonJ Cary High School Student, "Diversity feeds the mind and the soul." #justice #workers #education #people

For the School Board to break up the diversity policy, is to spit in the faces of students they are supposed to serve #WakeBoardOfEd #HKonJ

Someone is sleeping, when we think that closing HBCUs, disenfranchising the futures of our children- North Carolina: WAKE UP! #HKonJ

Rev. Barber: youth should not just be the leaders of tomorrow, but the leaders of today. #hkonj
RT @stefbrown33: "When school boards vote to resegregate they spit in the faces of those they were elected to serve!" #HKonJ

North Carolina is sometimes known as the rip van winkle state ... we gotta wake up." #hkonj

Education refrom. Budget cut. Hot topics at #HKonJ

"Our children are playing, but our parents are sleeping." #hkonj

#HKonJ metaphorically speaking - the children are playing while the parents are sleeping...there remains a breach in the wall

Democracy NC speaking now about the Voter Suppression Act, aka Voter ID, aka "spend $20 million to stop ppl from voting." #hkonj #ncpol

#HKonJ with @BenJealous, @KirinKennedy, @j_lu2010 & @JeffsNation! http://yfrog.com/h3q7laqj

Of course I have bowtie on RT @NvrComfortable: Me, @philosopher1906 and @donaldhughes at #HKonJ! http://yfrog.com/h09ljtwj

NOW: #HKonJ Cary High School Student, "Diversity feeds the mind and the soul." #justice #workers #education #people #power

RT@ncjustice I really appreciate the representation of such diverse groups at #hkonj

President of the @NAACP @benjealous At #HKonJ http://yfrog.com/h3khjnbj

Gov Perdue if its wrong veto it!! - Rev. Barber NC NAACP Pres @ #HKonJ

Ben Jealous of NAACP reminds us interracial marriage is only about 40 years away from being illegal. "Let love carry us forward." #hkonj

We are still fighting the old Jim Crow, sometimes it looks like the new Jim Crow. Just look at Halifax County, #NC #HKonJ

Ben Jealous of the NAACP is here....#hkonj http://plixi.com/p/76704267

If you think that neighborhood schools sounds like a good idea, you're saying Separate but Equal sounds like a good idea #HKonJ

I appreciate the speakers today including #Egypt's revolution as they preach, speak and teach! #HKonJ

NOW: #HKonJ Ben Jealous, NAACP, "Today day the spirit of #democracy flew from Egypt to America." #justice #people #power #solidarity

#HKonJ Why must we be reminded these basic american values "ONE nation with liberty and justice for all"

HK on J March Raleigh Tweets

#Education, not #Deportation! Filling Wilmington St in #Raleigh. Can you hear us #NCGA? #ncpol #HKonJ

Images of #hkonj http://ow.ly/i/86cn

#dreamact activists represent at #hkonj @NCDREAMTeam @thejval http://ow.ly/i/86cj

Jones street: we're coming, and we won't stand for resegregation, inequality, or injustice. #FWYH

NAACP says: great schools now! A mom and son with their sign. #hkonj http://ow.ly/i/86bq

Fired up!!! Ready to go!!! #undocumented, #unafraid, #unapologetic, in the STREETS! #FWYH
http://plixi.com/p/76690285

The march begins with youth behind the hkonj banner! http://ow.ly/i/86b5s #hkonj

Great sign: we need living wages, not minimum wages. #hkonj http://ow.ly/i/86aV

NAACP and others March on Raleigh: RALEIGH (WTVD) -- Thousands filled the streets of downtown Raleigh on Saturda... http://bit.ly/hioOMq

Crowd streams through streets at #hkonj ... Looks bigger than last year http://ow.ly/i/86dw

NAACP and others March on Raleigh

RALEIGH (WTVD) -- Thousands filled the streets of downtown Raleigh on Saturday for the annual "HK on J," or, "Historic Thousands on Jones Street" march.
The theme for this year's event was "Forward Ever, Backwards Never."
Members of the NAACP and representatives from 90 various organizations came together to address issues ranging from diversity in Wake County schools to worker's rights, jobs and the justice system.
Tweet from NcJustice Photo credit to the NC Justice, http://ow.ly/user/ncjustice
Crowd begins to gather for #hkonj ... Hundreds here already. http://ow.ly/i/868j

even the Dream Act its there.
Photo credit: #dreamact activists represent at #hkonj @NCDREAMTeam @thejval http://ow.ly/i/86cj

SNT: No matter what you can never Please NAACP

RALEIGH - The head of the state's NAACP chapter today called for a "strong response and punishment" for the N.C. State University students who painted racist and threatening graffiti aimed at President-elect Obama.

The lack of such a response "creates a hostile environment and exacerbates the possibility of continuing activity," NAACP leader William J. Barber II wrote to NCSU Chancellor James L. Oblinger.

Campus police said Thursday that four students who admitted painting the graffiti in NCSU's Free Expression Tunnel will not be charged with a hate crime. Under the state's hate crimes law, they would have had to commit another type of crime, for which the language in the graffiti would have been an aggravating factor.

I have try to write my opinion on this issue, however it keeps coming out the wrong way. So each to their own. However I will said that I feel the NAACP is making a mountain out of a mole hill. I feel what they are really piss about is the n-word, if so then they need to get their own to stop using the word, after awhile the word will fall out of use and be forgotten.

SNT: Tired of hearing about Slavery, It’s old hat get over it.

COLUMBIA -- The South Carolina and North Carolina chapters of the NAACP called the Confederate flag that flies on Statehouse grounds here a symbol of evil and terrorism and said Monday they will join in their efforts to remove it.

Oh boy isn't this a new shot to get a flag removed, all you have to claim now that is a symbol of terrorism, what a bunch of crap..

"As long as this flag blows, it pushes a foul wind of separatism, division and racism that is not contained by the borders of South Carolina," said the Rev. William Barber, president of the North Carolina NAACP. The two chapters of the organization used the anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation to announce new efforts.

Face it, slavery was in the past, it is time to let it go, there is not one living people who can claim they were a slave.

The battle flag was moved to its current location near the Confederate Soldiers Memorial on the north side of the Statehouse in 2000 as a result of a legislative compromise to take it off the Statehouse dome. The NAACP has protested its location ever since and organized a tourism and travel boycott of the state.

It seem no matter what they do will not please the NAACP or others on this topic. Since the Flag is now flying at the CSM on the north size the matter should be close.

Barber said the battle flag is wrong morally "because it supported the evils of slavery."

So I guess the south can't have symbols of their past display. If so then there should be no MLK, and MLK JR streets, avenues or lane in any city or town in the south. There should be a national Holiday for his birthday either.

"We wouldn't allow al-Qaida to fly their flag," he said. "We wouldn't allow the Bloods and the Crips to fly their flag. We wouldn't allow another country to fly its flag. We should not allow that which represents terrorism and secession to be flown."

We do allow another country to flies their flag; I can only guess that many haven't been the UN. Where there is a flag for every Nation there that Fly every day. And the Park Plaza fly a nation fly of those foreign diplomat have are visiting and staying at the Park Plaza.

Slavery has existed, in one form or another, through the whole of recorded human history — as have, in various periods, movements to free large or distinct groups of slaves. According to the Biblical Book of Exodus, Moses led Israelite slaves out of ancient Egypt — possibly the first written account of a movement to free slaves. Later Jewish laws (known as Halacha) prevented slaves from being sold out of the Land of Israel, and allowed a slave to move to Israel if he so desired. The Cyrus Cylinder, inscribed about 539 BC by the order of Cyrus the Great of Persia, abolished slavery and allowed Jews and other nationalities who had been enslaved under Babylonian rule to return to their native lands. Abolitionism should be distinguished from efforts to help a particular group of slaves, or to restrict one practice, such as the slave trade.

So blacks (African, and African American) weren't the only group to be enslaved at some point and time in our history. It's old hat and time to move on.