Reverend William Barber, who will keynote the Network for Public Education annual conference this weekend in Raleigh, has promised to lead a mass protest unless the despicable HB2 law enacted by the North Carolina legislature. HB2 was hastily passed by the Tea Party-dominated legislature to permit discrimination against LBGT persons.
“N.C. NAACP president William Barber says his group will hold a “mass sit-in” at the legislature if a controversial LGBT law isn’t repealed by April 21.
“Barber, whose Forward Together Moral Movement has organized numerous Moral Monday protests and acts of civil disobedience, plans to announce more details about the event at a news conference Saturday morning.
“We cannot be silent in the face of this race-based, class-based, homophobic and transphobic attack on wage earners, civil rights, and the LGBTQ community,” Barber said in a news release. “Together with our many allies, we will coordinate a campaign of nonviolent direct action along with other forms of nonviolent protest that will instruct our legislators with respect to the rights of all people.”
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I wish I could have attended the NPE conference this weekend if only to listen to Rev. Barber. I believe he is the most impressive, inspiring living American.
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This kind of robust response is great. But I wonder why their isn’t similar outrage to the fact that while state tests are standardized, the state school funding is not. In Philadelphia we get about $9,000.00 per student annually. The next county over, Lower Marion, gets about $22,000.00 per student. There is nothing fair about this. The urban poor need more resources to support their education, not less!!!
The game is rigged. Where is the outrage?
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CUNY has (rightly) just instituted a travel ban for both N.C. and Mississippi. Hopefully, CUNY, Springsteen and others will help bring an end to this discrimination. One small side-effect: I may have to pay my own way to speak at NPE. I wonder if others are similarly impacted?
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People need to actually read North Carolina’s law before labeling it as discriminatory and homophobic. The law just makes it clear that people who aren’t LGBTQ have rights too. There’s nothing discriminatory about that. ALL people have rights, not just LGBTQ people. Read what the law says, don’t just parrot what some SJW told you it says. The Federal government decided that LGBTQ people should get special treatment and have more rights than straight people. North Carolina just responded by protecting the rights of ALL its citizens.
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Taryn,
Can you explain in what way LGBT people have more rights than straight people? I don’t understand.
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