{"id":12872,"date":"2020-10-28T10:59:15","date_gmt":"2020-10-28T17:59:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogschapman.wpenginepowered.com\/wilkinson\/2020\/10\/28\/reverend-william-j-barber-ii-promotes-hope-not-hate\/"},"modified":"2020-10-28T10:59:15","modified_gmt":"2020-10-28T17:59:15","slug":"reverend-william-j-barber-ii-promotes-hope-not-hate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.chapman.edu\/wilkinson\/2020\/10\/28\/reverend-william-j-barber-ii-promotes-hope-not-hate\/","title":{"rendered":"Reverend William J. Barber II Promotes Hope, not Hate"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/b>Reverend William J. Barber has hope for the future of American democracy, and little tolerance for defeatism, or for the news media that fuels it.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cWe have got to stop excusing language that creates desperation,\u201d said Barber. \u201c[The media] talks about the 61 million people that voted for Trump, but they don\u2019t talk about the 65 million that didn\u2019t, and the hundred million that didn\u2019t even vote\u2026We don\u2019t know what this democracy can do, because we have never seen 75 or 80 percent participation.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

In an event hosted last Thursday by Wilkinson College<\/a> and The Fish Interfaith Center<\/a> as a part of<\/span> Wilkinson\u2019s <\/span>Engaging the World: Leading the Conversation on the Significance of Race<\/span><\/i> initiative<\/span><\/a>, Rev. Barber impressed upon over 200 virtual attendees the magnitude of systemic racism and systemic poverty in our nation and the problem of voter suppression, and the urgent need for people to assemble against these interlocking evils.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201c[I]n the midst of all this pain\u2014the pain that\u2019s pushed us together in ways we can no longer be separate\u2014we have got to fight together.\u201d<\/em><\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

It is hope, fiercely coupled with the need for political agitation that rests at the center of Rev. Barber\u2019s message.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cWe are the people we\u2019ve been looking for,\u201d he said. \u201cThe rejected\u2014if you\u2019ve been rejected because of your sexuality, rejected because of your race or class, rejected because of your national citizenship status, rejected because you\u2019re indigenous, rejected because of your lack of health care\u2014however you have been rejected, if all the rejected get together, we are called to be a movement. And we are called to be a movement right now.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

As co-chair of the <\/span>Poor People\u2019s Campaign: A National Call for Moral Revival<\/span><\/i><\/a>, <\/span><\/i>an organization that asks people to do M.O.R.E\u2014mobilize, organize, register, and educate people to vote\u2014Rev. Barber is extremely familiar with this fight, and expressed the urgency behind it in his speech. As he explained, in 2013 the Supreme Court \u201cgutted the Voting Rights Act of 1965\u201d by a 5-to-4 vote, freeing nine states, mostly in the South, to change their election laws without advance federal approval. Consequently, today, there are\u00a0 886 fewer voting precincts in Black and brown communities, and 25 states have passed laws that create additional hurdles to voting.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThis is the election hacking that no one wants to talk about.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Barber views systemic racism and systemic poverty that affects white, brown, and Black communities as a hatred for democracy and a hatred for humanity. \u201cMuch of what we see today are the roots of what was sown yesterday,\u201d Barber said. \u201cThe Trump Presidency did not create America’s racial divide, it explored its tactics that were developed alongside the racist policies and ideas that emerged with American slavery and continued through Jim Crow and through the southern strategy up until today.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Rev. Barber described America\u2019s current political divide as a result of \u201ctinkering around in the laboratory of racism and classism.\u201d Though he knows that the forces of injustice are at work in this nation, he does not think that those forces are winning. In fact, he contends that the continuation of unconscionable actions \u201cmay be the necessary link in the chain of events preparatory to the complete overthrow of division in this country.\u201d They have created their own demise, he said, \u201cbecause pride comes before destruction.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cSo, am I optimistic?\u201d Barber asked his audience. \u201cNo. I am hopeful. Why? Because hope comes out of despair, it doesn\u2019t grow around it. Hope sees possibility, even while you\u2019re crying. And hope is the kind of thing, that when you try to put it out, it only serves to increase, intensify, and embolden our agitation.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Would you like to hear more of this discussion? <\/span>Watch the Zoom recording here.<\/span><\/a>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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