Posted on 12/22/2016 5:54:30 PM PST by Freedom'sWorthIt
Raleigh, N.C. — The state NAACP will ask the national leaders of the civil rights group next month for a nationwide economic boycott of North Carolina to protest the actions of the General Assembly, state NAACP President Rev. William Barber said Thursday.
"This legislature is trying to raise a new Confederacy in policy," Barber said at a news conference. "This group doesn't respect the Constitution. They do not respect the voices of the people. They do not respect the will of the people. They do not respect the vote, and it seems in some ways they do not respect just a little bit of money being removed from the state."
Barber said the state NAACP takes issue with more than the legislature's failure Wednesday to repeal House Bill 2, which he called "an anti-worker, anti-civil rights, anti-LGBT bill" because it prevents cities and counties from raising the minimum wage or enacting anti-discrimination protections. That was merely the final straw, he said, noting Republican lawmakers last week stripped incoming Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper of various powers and set up partisan elections for the state's highest court.
(Excerpt) Read more at wral.com ...
Republicans in NC Legislature are still supporting HB2 and they have passed some laws to limit the power of the incoming Governor Elect Roy Cooper who won the Governorship because of voter fraud in Durham County, for one. (He won by 6000 votes after 9 precincts in Durham County were allowed to stay open after usual voting hours and 90,000 new votes came in.)
NC is on a rocky road. I would hope that fair minded people would find a way to support NC but I doubt that will happen.
Maybe it’s time for all NAACP associated and/or supporting businesses to get boycotted to ruin. Make examples.
and the Government can stop giving these boycotters Welfare and Food Stamps
That’s exactly what I am hoping.
Further down in the article - it says: (Cooper, the NAACP head guy from NC) says this: “”We are going to fight them in the courts. We are going to fight them in the streets. We’re going to fight them at the ballot box, and now we’re going to ask permission to fight them with money at the cash register,” he said. “If we don’t stop them here, it has the potential to spread across the nation.”
Of course, he doesn’t care that such boycotts hurt “the little guys” who work for the businesses that will be hurt.
All blacks will never do business in NC, even with black owned businesses?
Gender ideology is anti-Black and anti-human. The whole world should fight it, regardless of race or creed.
LOL - exactly! Glad you posted his photo.
He was on a national news outlet the other day - I think it was MSNBC, of course - and the “interviewer” was just in awe of his successes in NC and was urging him to “show the way” to others across the nation who want to fight the Trump administration and the Republicans in Congress on every issue.
I believe Mr. Barber’s appetite for power and fame is now about to match his appetite for food.....
If you are talking about HB2 - the main purpose of that bill is to prevent men from going into women’s bathrooms and locker rooms. The rest of HB2 - may indeed be discriminatory and I am all for equal rights for all people. So I am not
“all in” for HB2.
But this “boycott” is not just about HB2. It is about a Governor who was elected by fraud. It is about an opposition Legislature who is doing everything they can to limit the damage the Democratic Governor can do. They have tried in the past to prevent Democratic malfeasance by passing voter ID law and a redistricting law both of which have been overturned by the courts.
I expect there will be many legal challenges to HB2 where, I expect, it will be overturned as well.
Exactly. Again, these boycotts only hurt the little guys and the people who are supposedly those who are the “victims” of these events.
These people are such vermin. I’m in Sanford florida. Whites and blacks have lived and worked together for many years here. There is none of the hatred that I have seen in other cities. Yet the naacp comes here and tries to to stir the pot every few years.
Well, of course not. That’s Capitalism.
You don't give your home state on your home page. I assume it is not North Carolina. Otherwise you would know much more about this situation.
You say Republicans are still supporting HB2. LOL. This has little to do with HB2. It has everything to do with a extreme liberal city of Charlotte with its liberal mayor and her buddy the registered pedophile who are taunting the state legislature.
The city council agreed to drop their bathroom ordinance in return for the legislature dropping HB2. The city council pulled a fast one and only renounced part of their far right ordinance. They screwed up big time trying to pull a fast one.
This situation has little to do with transgender rights. It has everything to do with politics - the city is at war with the state government.
Well, of course not. That’s Capitalism.
That’s been the case here in NC also. (Blacks and whites working and living together in peace).
The NAACP in NC has held “Moral Mondays” on the streets around our Legislative buildings for the past 2 years - invoking cries of “foul” on just about every issue they can find. It gets to be tiring to watch them but now “Rev.” Barbar seems to be a “rising star” on the national stage....so we can look for more of his efforts to gain national prominence and imitation across the nation.
I think the NAACP should support HB2.
Sorry but I do live in NC.
I agree that this latest event in the HB2 saga was all about what Charlotte tried to do. But there is part of the HB2 law that I don’t clearly understand......but that does not have anything to do with this latest event, I understand that.
Thanks for the clarification and I hate having to get the news filtered to me from WRAL TV which is my source for local news even though they are way too liberal now to be an unbiased source.
I pray a wise answer. Sometimes the wisest thing is not the most obvious thing on the surface. This bill may go by the boards because it has to in order to make room for something better.
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