Posted on 02/16/2015 5:11:12 AM PST by ilovesarah2012
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — Still working toward substantial victories at the ballot box and the legislature, demonstrators opposed to Republican policies within North Carolina demanded again Saturday that laws be repealed that they say harm the sick, the poor and minorities.
Thousands of people joined the state NAACP and other advocacy groups that helped stage the 9th annual "Moral March on Raleigh," which led through downtown streets before ending in front of the old Capitol building. The terminus is deliberate, since their unhappiness rests with the laws passed by the GOP-led legislature and Republican Gov. Pat McCrory since 2013.
Those policies spawned the "Moral Monday" movement, in which about 1,000 people were arrested in non-violent protests at the legislative building and the old Capitol.
But the policies haven't changed — lawmakers have refused to expand Medicaid to cover more of the working poor, a series of election law changes remain on the books and the minimum wage remains at $7.25 per hour. And the Republicans remain in firm control of the General Assembly following the 2014 elections, losing only two seats overall.
(Excerpt) Read more at hickoryrecord.com ...
Oh I see. Looting and mooching are now the moral high ground.
“The event also included a call to unity after the slayings of three young Muslims in Chapel Hill last week. Farris Barakat, the brother of the slain Deah Shaddy Barakat, told a pre-march rally good has come from the tragic deaths, but the public must speak out against anti-Muslim bias.
“Maybe we haven’t collectively stood up yet to say that Muslims are Americans, too,” Barakat said. Then an imam delivered a call to prayer before the march began.”
Black folks don’t like laws.
I’m all in favor of this, because it strongly turns public support against the agitators. Add to this that their state Democrat party is both bankrupt and torn apart by internal squabbles.
Democrat comments:
“I would classify it an utter failure as it gained NO AUDIENCE outside the group members themselves.”
“140 groups came together with themselves and attracted some of the Krispy Kreme people over to watch, but remains ineffective on actual voters.”
Is this yet another march by Rev. Barbour, the Buffet Slayer????
The murderer, an apparent atheist leftist... will soon be remade into a fundamentalist Tea Party Christian... such will be the media “narrative”. When Truth encounters leftist media narrative, tis Truth that must yield. Without lies, anger and lies (yea I know I said lies twice)... leftist/liberal/”progressives” would soon starve!
Reason #74,234 I am so glad I moved out of “The Berkeley of the South”, Raleigh NC.
Thousands? LOL, I’d bet a $100 they didnt add a photo to this story. There were’nt a hundred people there.
Is this the party that voted God out of the DNC platform three times? Does Satan have morals?
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