If we don’t help people name & condemn #SlaveholderReligion, they are left to believe this is the teaching of the church. Trump & the GOP have elevated Christian nationalism to a place where many confuse it w/ orthodox faith. ivpress.com/Media/Default/…
Our deep prayers & love are with the family of Sister Aretha as she sings & dances on the rhythms of grace to join the choir of heaven in the glory of God’s Presence. “Come unto me all ye that are heavy burdened & I will give you rest."
I will never forget after speaking at the DNC in 2016, I received a call from Aretha. I thought it was a joke, & I said, “Is this really Aretha Franklin?” She said, “Is this really Rev Barber?”
I was honored to preach for a service she had at her father’s former church & also had the opportunity from time to time to call & talk with her. Every call began with, “Is this really Aretha Franklin?” And her response: “Is this really Rev Barber?”
Trump keeps saying that under him, unemployment among African Americans is the lowest in history. Not true. We didn't even start measuring Af-Am unemployment until 1972.
Also, Trump was handed a good economy, while Obama was handed recession. Obama had to do more and did.
Economists note that unemployment rates had been falling before Trump took office & their declines don't appear to have picked up speed. This implies that there's nothing specific that Trump did to change this rate.
My brother @BenJealous, don't play the extremist game about whether you are a socialist. They would call Jesus, Dr. King, FDR & Mother Teresa socialists & half of them don't even know what the term means.
Just tell them who you are: a lover of all people, of democracy & of the least of these. Say, “I'm a constitutionalist b/c I believe in the establishment of justice, the promotion of the general welfare & equal protection under the law.
Truth is, many extreme Republicans believe in corporate welfare for the wealthy. They treat corporations like people & people like things. They give tax cuts to the greedy & cut programs for children & the sick.
We must now have mass voter mobilization and nonviolent civil disobedience.
When our ancestors faced a #SCOTUS, president and Congress that opposed them, they took to the streets and the ballot box to make their voices heard.
Our ancestors refused to be silenced and so must we. NOW is the time to come together, fight forward and build a long-term movement - not just for an election season.
We can’t be silent about historic inequality or recent judicial assaults on workers rights and voting rights.
Yesterday over 100 moral activists were arrested across the nation including nine clergy and people of faith who prayed for the justices outside the US Supreme Court.
#SCOTUS shamefully voted on Monday to allow Ohio and other states to engage in intentional voter suppression, allowing them to purge mostly poor white, black, and brown voters from state voter rolls.
Children were killed when indigenous Natives were targeted with racism & injustice. Black children were stolen & separated when black people were targeted with slavery & racism.
Jewish children were killed & separated when targeted w/ Hitler’s anti-Semitism & Holocaust. Black children like Emmett Till were stolen & killed by Jim Crow.
Children are being killed by mass shooting & guns b/c some love protecting guns more than protecting children.