>>> YOU MAY HAVE SEEN THE MEDIA COVERAGE OF A SIGN POSTED
OUTSIDE A VIRGINIA CHURCH THAT
WENT VIRAL LAST WEEK "AMERICA,
LOVE IT OR LEAVE IT."
SOME OF THE CONGREGATION
REPORTEDLY WALKED OUT OF A
SERVICE YESTERDAY IN PROTEST OF
THE SIGN.
THE SIGN. WHICH THE PASTOR SAYS WENT UP
WEEKS AGO.
WEEKS AGO. BUT IT CERTAINLY ECHOS THE
SENTIMENTS EXPRESSED RECENTLY BY
CRUMP, WHO SAID LAST WEEK THAT
FOUR DEMOCRATIC CONGRESSWOMEN OF
COLOR KNOWN AS THE SQUAD SHOULD
GO BACK TO THE PLACES WHERE THEY
CAME FROM, EVEN THOUGH THEY ARE
AMERICAN.
AMERICAN. THE PRESIDENT CONTINUES TO RAGE
TWEET ABOUT THE SQUAD.
THIS MORNING, HE CALLED THEM "A
VERY RACIST GROUP OF
TROUBLEMAKERS WHO ARE YOUNG,
INEXPERIENCED AND NOT VERY
SMART."
SMART." THESE COMMENTS COME ON THE HEELS
OF DISTURBING SOCIAL MEDIA POST
TARGETING THE FOUR
CONGRESSWOMEN.
CONGRESSWOMEN. A PICTURE DEPICKING THETING THE
THE JIHAD SQUAD.
A POLICE OFFICER IN LOUISIANA
HAS JUST BEEN SUSPENDED AFTER HE
WAS BUSTED ON FACEBOOK FOR
WRITING ABOUT CONGRESSWOMAN
ALEXANDRIA OCASIO-CORTEZ.
ALEXANDRIA OCASIO-CORTEZ. "THIS VILE IDIOT NEEDS A ROUND,
AND I DON’T MEAN THE KIND SHE
USED TO SERVE."
I’M JOINED NOW BY REVEREND DR.
WILLIAM BARBER.
WILLIAM BARBER. AUTHOR OF "REVIVE US AGAIN:
VISION AND ACTION IN MORAL
ORGANIZING."
ORGANIZING." LET’S TALK ABOUT, FIRST OF ALL,
THIS STATEMENT LOVE IT OR LEAVE
IT.
IT. CAN YOU JUST TALK A LITTLE BIT
ABOUT THE ORIGINS OF THAT AND
WHAT CONNECTION IT HAD TO
ANTI-INTEGRATIONISTS AND
ANTI-INTEGRATIONISTS AND SEGREGATIONISTS BACK IN THE
1950s?
1950s? >> I’M HERE IN IOWA WITH THE
CHRISTIAN CHURCH DISCIPLES OF
CHRIST, JOY, AND WE HAVE
THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE SAYING
WELCOME, BUT THERE HAS ALWAYS
BEEN THIS OTHER SIDE OF
PERVERTED, I CALL IT RACIST
AMERICANITY NOT TRUE
CHRISTIANITY.
CHRISTIANITY. THOSE SIGNS WERE PUT UP IN BY
THE KLAN.
THE KLAN. WHERE I USED TO LIVE THERE USED
TO BE A SIGN UP THAT SAID THIS
IS KLAN COUNTRY, AMERICA, LOVE
IT OR LEAVE.
IT IS A STRANGE FORM OF
EXTREMISM TO HAVE PEOPLE WHO
COME AND TAKE OTHER PEOPLE’S
LAND TO THEN NOW SAY GO BACK TO
WHERE YOU COME FROM.
IT IS A FORM OF ENGENDERING HATE
AND RACISM, AND ACTUALLY IT’S A
TRICK OF RACISM, IT’S A TRICK OF
FASCISM WHEN YOU DON’T HAVE THE
ANSWERS FOR THE REAL PROBLEM, SO
WHAT YOU DO IS SOW DIVISION AS
COVER UP, COVER UP FOR THE
FAILURES OF POLICIES.
A LOT OF TIMES, JOY, THIS IS THE
STRANGE THING, POLICIES THAT NOT
ONLY HURT PEOPLE OF COLOR, BUT
ALSO HURT POOR WHITE PEOPLE.
SO HERE WE ARE TALKING ABOUT
TWEETS AND RACIST TWEETS AND GO
BACK, BUT NOT ABOUT THE 140
MILLION POOR AND LOW-INCOME
PEOPLE IN THIS COUNTRY, 66
MILLION OF THEM WHICH ARE WHAT.
NOT ABOUT THE 62 MILLION PEOPLE
WHO DON’T MAKE A LIVING WAGE.
WE AREN’T TALKING ABOUT HIS
ADMINISTRATION AND PARTY
BLOCKING LIVING WAGES AND
BLOCKING HEALTH CARE AND
THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE ARE DYING
BECAUSE THESE TWEETS, THESE
RACIST TWEETS AND RACIST SAYINGS
USED IN HISTORY BY RACISM AND
FASCISM ARE ALWAYS KIND OF A
PHYCOLOGICAL BIRD, AS KING SAID,
BEING FED TO PEOPLE SO TT THEY
DON’T PAY ATTENTION TO THE REAL
DESTRUCTION THAT’S HAPPENING IN
THEIR LIVES.
THEIR LIVES. >> WELL, AND I THINK IT’S AN
IMPORTANT POINT BECAUSE, YOU
KNOW, IT IS INTERESTING THE WAY
THAT THE FAR-RIGHT AND THE
RACIST ELEMENTS IN THE COUNTRY
HAVE BEEN ABLE TO USE THIS KIND
OF, YOU KNOW, TWEAKING PEOPLE ON
THEIR RACIAL INSECURITIES.
PUSH THEM TOWARD A MORE SORT OF
FULL RACISM WHILE AT THE SAME
TIME ROBBING THEM, TAKING AWAY
THEIR HOSPITALS.
THEIR HOSPITALS. >> RIGHT.
>> RIGHT. >> MAKING THEIR SCHOOLS WORSE.
MAKING THEM POORER.
>> SO, FOR INSTANCE, TRUMP WAS
IN PITT COUNTY THE OTHER DAY.
IT DIDN’T GO FOR TRUMP.
IT DIDN’T GO FOR ANY OF THAT.
HE WAS ABOUT 35 MILES FROM A
HOSPITAL THAT WAS CLOSED IN
RURAL NORTH CAROLINA BECAUSE OF
REPUBLICANS IN OUR STATE
REFUSING TO EXPAND MEDICAID.
BUT SO YOU -- THEY DON’T HAVE
ANSWERS.
ANSWERS. SO YOU USE THIS COVER-UP.
NOW, HERE’S ANOTHER CAUTIONARY
THING, WE CANNOT ACT LIKE THIS
IS NEW.
IS NEW. WHEN GEORGE W. BUSH FIRST RAN
FOR CONGRESS BACK IN THE LATE
’60s HE SAID I’M RUNNING BECAUSE
I’M AGAINST THE CIVIL RIGHTS ACT
BECAUSE I’M FOR THE 84%, NOT THE
14%.
14%. RONALD REAGAN WHEN HE RAN, HE
OFTEN TALKED ABOUT WELFARE
QUEENS TAKING FROM PEOPLE.
HE RAN AGAINST FAIR HOUSING,
SAYING THAT A PERSON SHOULD HAVE
A RIGHT TO DISCRIMINATE IF IT’S
THEIR PROPERTY AND HE BEGAN PART
OF HIS CAMPAIGN IN THE SAME
COUNTY WHERE THE FOUR CIVIL
RIGHTS LEADERS WERE KILLED --
THE THREE CIVIL RIGHTS LEADERS
WERE KILLED IN MISSISSIPPI.
SO THIS CODING AND THIS TWEETING
IS NOT NEW.
IT’S JUST MORE OF IT.
IT’S MORE PUSHED OUT BECAUSE WE
HAVE A 24/7 NEWS CYCLE, BUT IT
IS NOT NEW.
AND IT ALWAYS IS A COVER-UP FOR
THE OTHER POLICIES THAT ARE
ACTUALLY HURTING PEOPLE OF
COLOR, AND I WANT THE AUDIENCE
TO HEAR THIS, AND POOR WHITE
PEOPLE OF WHOM THERE ARE 66
MILLION POOR AND LOW-INCOME
WHITE PEOPLE THAT WHILE THIS
HATE IS BEING SPREAD, THEIR
LIVES ARE BEING DAMAGED.
>> RIGHT.
>> RIGHT. AND I WONDER THEN WHAT IS THE
PROPER RESPONSE TO IT?
BECAUSE THERE’S BEEN SOME, YOU
KNOW, SOME DEMOCRATS, SOME NEVER
TRUMPER REPUBLICANS SAY, WELL,
THE RESPONSE TO IT IS JUST
IGNORE WHAT DONALD TRUMP IS
SAYING, IGNORE THE RACISM,
PRETEND IT ISN’T THERE AND TALK
ABOUT HEALTH CARE.
IS THAT -- DO YOU AGREE WITH
THAT?
THAT? >> NO, NO, NO, NO.
YOU CANNOT IGNORE IT.
THANK GOD FOR THOSE PEOPLE THAT
WALKED OUT OF THAT CHURCH OVER
WHAT WENT UP ON THE SIGN, BUT
WHAT YOU CANNOT DO IS JUST FOCUS
ON THE SIGN AND THE TWEETS AND
NOT THE NEGATIVE POLICIES THAT
LIE UNDERNEATH THE TWEETS.
SO HERE’S WHAT I WOULD SUGGEST.
IF DEMOCRATS ARE REALLY GOING TO
RESPOND TO THIS, THEY OUGHT TO
HAVE A PRESS CONFERENCE.
THEY OUGHT NOT BE ON THE TWEETS.
THEY OUGHT TO LIST THE TOP 25 TO
30 POLICIES DRIVEN BY RACIAL
DISCRIMINATION AND THEIR IMPACT
ON BLACK, BROWN AND WHITE
PEOPLE.
PEOPLE. IN OTHER WORDS, THEY SHOULD SAY
WHILE HE’S TWEETING AND FOOLING
YOU, YOU SHOULD KNOW WHAT’S
HAPPENING IN TERMS OF JUDGES ON
THE BENCH.
THE BENCH. YOU SHOULD KNOW HOW YOUR HEALTH
CARE IS BEING BLOCKED.
YOU SHOULD KNOW HOW THEY’RE
GEARING UP NOW TO BLOCK A VOTE
ON THE LIVING WAGE BILL THAT WAS
JUST PASSED IN THE HOUSE.
WE HAVE TO CONNECT THE RACISM TO
THE POLICIES.
THE POLICIES. WE HAVE TO SHOW PEOPLE, LISTEN,
DO YOU KNOW THE SAME PEOPLE THAT
ARE DOING THESE TWEETS, THEY
ENGAGE IN RACIST VOTER
SUPPRESSION?
SUPPRESSION? WELL, DO YOU KNOW THAT THE
PEOPLE WHO GET ELECTED BY RACIST
VOTER SUPPRESSION WHEN THEY GET
ELECTED, THEY USE THEIR POWER TO
BLOCK LIVING WAGES AND BLOCK
HEALTH CARE?
HEALTH CARE? >> RIGHT.
>> RIGHT. >> WE’VE GOT TO EXPOSE THE TRUTH
OF THE LIES OF WHAT’S GOING ON,
OTHERWISE RACISM AND FASCISM