Beware of False Prophets
William Barber
The Reverend Al Sharpton denies liberty and freedom to those who purchase his wares. He’s a race profiteer, one who makes his living creating racial tension not healing communities. Even though he owes the IRS millions in back taxes, Sharpton visited the White House 61 times in 2014 and reportedly advised the President on Attorney General Eric Holder’s replacement. You read that correctly. Why is the Reverend treated with kid gloves?
North Carolina NAACP, Rev. William Barber, in a column published in the Kinston Free Press (for some reason the link won’t work, but http://epaper.kinston.com/Olive/Tablet/KinstonFreePress/SharedArticle.aspx?href=KFP%2F2015%2F01%2F21&id=Ar01002 is the correct address for the article.) on January 21, 2015, follows in Sharpton’s footsteps. In a Civitas article dated the same, Barber is called to question on a $350,000 taxpayer funded grant from the Department of Public Instruction. The money goes to one of his non-profits but this is the same man that has led his “Moral Monday” protests on the General Assembly, been arrested more than once, and left the grounds trashed. A self promoter, he shows no regard for the people he ostensibly represents.
It would appear that Reverend Barber and Bob Hall of Democracy NC take credit for the authoring this divisive hate filled Free Press commentary yet Barber’s picture dons the page. The column asserts that the rich, ultra-conservative right wingers, along with the NC General Assembly are hell bent to reverse progress made through the 1965 Voting Rights Act through the use of two US Supreme Court cases.
Without one of those cases, Shelby County v. Holder, my home town of Kinston, NC would still have partisan elections, not nonpartisan contests the people affirmed by referendum, nor would the state of North Carolina have the “Voter ID Law” further securing voter integrity. Alas, the splinter festering under Barber’s skin and his misguided minions has been identified, the “Voter ID Law”! Could this be the reason why Rev. Barber, the North Carolina NAACP, and the NC Democratic Party claim voter suppression?
Oh my word, give it a rest people! The State of NC will pay for a one time ID and SCOTUS has affirmed no voter shall be suppressed. Voter identification is necessary to uphold the integrity of the voting process and the Courts agree.
Not buying the “propaganda bonus package” Barber’s selling? Then, according to the Reverend, you associate with “hooded perpetrators” of “dastardly acts” running deceptive ads from mystery donors. He attempts to vilify “a handful of wealthy, ultra-conservatives and their corporations” when decrying the role money plays in politics but omits the fact that liberal groups, such as his, outspent Republicans in 2014 as documented in multiple trustworthy news outlets.
He claims Republican legislators drew the redistricting lines to “isolate and minimize the power of black voters” when in fact Republicans won control of the General Assembly under Democratic maps ruled constitutional by the Courts. Under 140 years of
Democratic rule, the Courts routinely tossed aside maps drawn on unconstitutional grounds.
Barber attempts to discredit the Republican led NC General Assembly with twisted falsities, the most striking being the flat out lie regarding money allocated to education. He states the per-pupil spending is down when, in fact, the budget for education has increased each year under the Republican NCGA.
Here are some questions that should be asked of the Reverend Barber since he hates money infused politics so much. How much money has America Votes, Blueprint NC, Z. Smith Reynolds, A.J. Fletcher Foundation (run by the owner of WRAL News in Raleigh) or George Soros’ funded groups, given the North Carolina NAACP, the Moral Monday Movement, or Democracy NC to pay for his travel, expenses, and costs of protesting and legal expenses? I suggest those contributions are far more suspect of creating or promoting racial division and voter suppression than any action the General Assembly could possibly have taken.
Martin Luther King, Jr. had a dream, but perpetuating racial division for profit wasn’t it. Barber calls the vote “the great equalizer…a tool for self respect and community empowerment”. However, the vote must bear integrity and “Jim Crow” can no longer be used as an excuse. Responsibility for self, hard work and determination, using our God-given resources, and compassion for our fellow man is far closer to Reverend King’s dream than divisively promoting and profiting from our differences. What will our legacy be? “Beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves.” ~ Matthew 7:15
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