Rev. Dr. William J. Barber II

While Reverend Dr. Barber is certainly working to build coalitions across creed/race/condition, and I am very impressed, I will admit a bit surprised as well, to see that this includes the LGBTQ community in North Carolina, I was a bit put off by the clear Christian bias (preaching) in his book, which essentially summarises the meetings and marches that have been part of the building of his movement.

I understand and agree that the US is a primarily Judeo-Christian nation in origin, but I find that the level of explicitly Christian citations is far far higher than what Dr. King used, and I personally feel (and perhaps this reflects my own biases) that less of the preaching and more of the reasoning of the type used by Dr. King most often in his speeches might draw in more of our non-Christian brethren (particularly Islamic friends -and much of the Koran does cite or paraphrase the Bible, so it is not very difficult to include Koranic verses as well, given that Rev. Barker seems to go to pains to include both "Old Testament" and NT quotes...).

Overall, I found the last pages in chapter 14 most useful (lessons learned and goals/strategies for linked/related movements).

Toward Human Cooperation,
ShiraDestinie
21 October, 12016 HE… (meer)

While Reverend Dr. Barber is certainly working to build coalitions across creed/race/condition, and I am very impressed, I will admit a bit surprised as well, to see that this includes the LGBTQ community in North Carolina, I was a bit put off by the clear Christian bias (preaching) in his book, which essentially summarises the meetings and marches that have been part of the building of his movement.

I understand and agree that the US is a primarily Judeo-Christian nation in origin, but I find that the level of explicitly Christian citations is far far higher than what Dr. King used, and I personally feel (and perhaps this reflects my own biases) that less of the preaching and more of the reasoning of the type used by Dr. King most often in his speeches might draw in more of our non-Christian brethren (particularly Islamic friends -and much of the Koran does cite or paraphrase the Bible, so it is not very difficult to include Koranic verses as well, given that Rev. Barker seems to go to pains to include both "Old Testament" and NT quotes...).

Overall, I found the last pages in chapter 14 most useful (lessons learned and goals/strategies for linked/related movements).

Toward Human Cooperation,
ShiraDestinie
21 October, 12016 HE… (meer)

The list of inequities and inequalities fostered under late capitalism and increased by additional racism and sexism grows longer day by day. No one person can solve it all, and no one solution will have all the answers.

But the Reverend Dr. Barber is one of the inspiring social justice activists of our time, and he has a better grasp on how to be a good leftist than most of the self-proclaimed leftists out there. There's a reason Hillary Clinton gave him a prime time speaking slot at the 2016 Democratic National Convention! If you're looking for a little inspiration to get you through until January 20, 2021, start here.… (meer)