Rev. Dr. William Barber - "White Poverty" & Poor People's Campaign March - The Daily Show

[littlemissmartypants]

Protestant minister, social activist, and Yale Divinity School professor Rev. Dr. William J. Barber II sits down with Jon Stewart to discuss his latest book, “White Poverty: How Exposing Myths About Race and Class Can Reconstruct American Democracy.” Barber talks about the staggering statistics of poverty in America which have long been misrepresented, the need for politicians to pay attention to this huge portion of the population and mobilizing poor and low wage people of every race to vote, and leading the June 29th Mass Poor People’s & Low-Wage Workers’ Assembly and Moral March on Washington D.C.

Cross post, hat tip to Texas Towlie from
https://www.democraticunderground.com/132227227#post1

to TT!

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[Escurumbele]

1. The Rev is right, poor people's vote, if they decide to execise it, is incredibly powerful.

If you look at countries where Communism/Dictatorships (one and the same) have taken power, like Venezuela, it was the poor people who voted the criminals from the regime into power, and this is the very delicate issue with those masses, if the government doesn't take care of educating them, of making their lives better, they will vote for the one who says "Only I can fix it, only I can help your lives", which is a lie to bring them to vote for them, and where the "I don't care about you, I just care about your vote" comes true, but once again, the danger is that people with very low education and dire economic situations are desperate for that person who they believe will help their cause because he/she says they will, and that is how dictatorships take power.

We need to try to open the eyes of people who still think they will vote for trump, not that I think trump has the edge, but it will be important that trump's defeat is so big that it may change the minds of many republican politicians and even open their minds to accept the fact that the country as a whole does not want their corrupt ideas...One can hope.