Rev. William Barber I read his resume and bio.
The "Reverend" seems a lot more concerned about "Social Justice" than he does about the Gospel of Jesus Christ.
Posted on 07/20/2010 5:30:46 PM PDT by Jim Robinson
RALEIGH, N.C. – An NAACP leader in North Carolina who claims a school board's policy will resegregate schools has been arrested at the board's meeting. The Rev. William Barber had been banned from this meeting after his trespassing arrest at a board meeting last month. Barber is upset over the Wake County school board's decision to eliminate a busing policy focused on diversity.
Barber was among about 1,000 people who marched in protest over the board's decision earlier Tuesday. He called on the supporters to come to the meeting to confront the panel.
Barber and another person were arrested outside the Wake County Schools administration building. Raleigh police set up a mobile command center and had roughly two dozen officers there.
THIS IS A BREAKING NEWS UPDATE. Check back soon for further information. AP's earlier story is below....
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You are not reporting the whole story here.... As a resident of Wake County..ie Raleigh, Garner, Cary, Apex, Fuquay Varina, Knightdale, Wake Forest and other incorporated towns in our school district, we were sick and tired of having our previous school board change our school districts every single year for the past 7 years!! There has never been any continuity for our children because they never know what school they are going to be assigned to for the next year. This careless, reckless, reassignment, mandatory year round agenda had to be put to an end. What the citizens of Wake county wanted and voted for was to have a school board that would eliminate bussing for the sake of free and reduced lunch and stop reaking havoc with our childrens lives, sending them to schools across town, just to balance the free lunch numbers. I have personally had one child in high school on a traditional schedule while my younger child was on a year round schedule.... try living with that *****!
Dont judge...this is not about racisim, this is only about trying to maintain a sense of communtity where kids can count on going to the same school, at least 2 years in a row (hopefully longer) and build friendships, have a sense of continutiy and thrive. Not being reassigned every year to a new school where they dont know anyone and cant participate in after school activities because they have to catch that bus or have no way home. Get real parents, this is 2010 and all of our children have the equal opportunity to attend a neighborhood school with the best teachers without bussing. If the schools are so bad that the grades don't make the mark, fire all the teachers, hire the very best, pay them an extra incentive to come into the low scoring schools and make a difference. 2+ hours one way on a bus is not in any childs best interest.
You failed NAACP, once again you showed your racist face instead of making a case for the welfare of every child.
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I don't know about all of you, but I would scream bloody murder if they were jacking my kids around like that, screwing up their lives, all in the name of utopia "Diversity."
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100720/ap_on_re_us/us_busing_fuss#mwpphu-container
Going on right here in Raleigh. The state NAACP head is a 350+ pound, loud-mouthed tub of lard.......I kid you not. He has the IQ of a tomato.
The school board is absolutely correct in their actions. They were VOTED onto the board, displacing bleeding-heart white liberal droolers, to do JUST this. Forced busing has destroyed some beautiful new high schools in north Raleigh (I know; I’ve put 6 kids so far through them). It’s been a disaster. Time to get rid of the P.C. nonsense and go back to neighborhood schools. The Board enjoys huge, widespread community support.
Lardass just can’t stand it, so he’s pulling a Sharpton....without Sharpton’s charm (ahem).
We can’t have segregation. We must have diversity at all costs. Let people associate with whoever they wish? No way. /s
Yet we gerrymander voting districts to ensure that certain people get elected, even if we have to include the median area of a divided highway in order to connect groups of minority voters. It’s disgraceful.
More cops “acting stupidly”
“Raleigh police set up a mobile command center and had roughly two dozen officers there.”
That beer summit will have to be a keg summit
The "Reverend" seems a lot more concerned about "Social Justice" than he does about the Gospel of Jesus Christ.
The elephant in the room has been the disaster known as as busing or assigning students to “diversify” schools. It’s no secret that virtually every urban school district (and many suburban ones) are absolute disasters, both in terms of safety and academics. No one will speak out about it but everyone knows it. What used to be top flight high schools in still very good neighborhoods have been crapped out by school boards or courts or politicians too self-interested to care about the quality of education . .and the safety of students and personnel.
I have NO idea what you are talking about!
Rep Melvin Watt (D-NC, 12th District)
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NC ping worthy
“The “Reverend” seems a lot more concerned about “Social Justice” than he does about the Gospel of Jesus Christ.”
What seems to concern him most is finishing off 4 double quarter-pounders with cheese in one sitting.
The "root cause" (that phrase liberals are so proud of) is not racism.
It is sin. Specifically, the sin of sexual immorality, rejection of marriage, and the resulting terrible child rearing in single parent homes.
Every one of these sins (and their consequences) is addressed in the Bible.
Professor Walter Williams words from five years ago speak the truth:
Walter Williams - Victimhood: Rhetoric or reality?
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Only 30 to 40 percent of black males graduate from high school. Many of those who do graduate emerge with reading and math skills of a white seventh- or eighth-grader. This is true in cities where a black is mayor, a black is superintendent of schools and the majority of principals and teachers are black. It's also true in cities where the per pupil education expenditures are among the highest in the nation.
Across the U.S., black males represent up to 70 percent of prison populations. Are they in prison for crimes against whites? To the contrary, their victims are primarily other blacks. Department of Justice statistics for 2001 show that in nearly 80 percent of violent crimes against blacks, both the victim and the perpetrator were the same race. In other words, it's not Reaganites, Bush supporters, right-wing ideologues or the Klan causing blacks to live in fear of their lives and property and making their neighborhoods economic wastelands. What about the decline of the black family? In 1960, only 28 percent of black females between the ages of 15 and 44 were never married. Today, it's 56 percent. In 1940, the illegitimacy rate among blacks was 19 percent, in 1960, 22 percent, and today, it's 70 percent. Some argue that the state of the black family is the result of the legacy of slavery, discrimination and poverty. That has to be nonsense. A study of 1880 family structure in Philadelphia shows that three-quarters of black families were nuclear families, comprised of two parents and children. In New York City in 1925, 85 percent of kin-related black households had two parents. In fact, according to Herbert Gutman in "The Black Family in Slavery and Freedom: 1750-1925," "Five in six children under the age of 6 lived with both parents." Therefore, if one argues that what we see today is a result of a legacy of slavery, discrimination and poverty, what's the explanation for stronger black families at a time much closer to slavery — a time of much greater discrimination and of much greater poverty? I think that a good part of the answer is there were no welfare and Great Society programs.
Glad to hear you are standing up for you kids. Perhaps the NAACP will someday.
Looks like just another slack jawed bottom feedin knuckle draggin mouth breather with a deck of race cards to me ....
Doom on him an his...
He’s as much a “reverend” as I am a brain surgeon.
A last-ditch attempt to hold a credibility seldom attained and never earned.
This same “Reverend” lead the NC NAACP in reversing decades of NAACP policy during the Duke lacrosse case, in order to
1 ) oppose a change of venue for the defendants; and
2 ) impose a gag order on the defendants, their counsel,
and anyone associated with the case (this was only after
Nifong had given 70 interviews)
The NC NAACP web site posted 82 points about that case, many of which were inaccurate (I won’t say “lies”);
and maintained them long after many of them were disproven, despite many requests to correct their site.
The NC NAACP appointed a special “watchdog” over the case; a man who consistently defended Nifong, even after he was shown to have lied to the court.
There were 121 other claims of rape in 2006 in the Durham area, but the lacrosse case was the only one the NC NAACP paid any attention to.
The NC NAACP did nothing to defend a defense witness, Elmostafa, who was arrested by Nifong and tried on a trumped up charge because he would not lie for the prosecution. (That’s called “witness intimidation”, not that the DOJ would care.) Elmostafa received a Readers Digest Hero of the Year Award for not giving in and agreeing to lie.
Elmostafa was a black immigrant from the Sudan, who faced deportation if he was convicted. Instead of being honored as a (now) good citizen, he has been ignored by the NC NAACP and Durham.
The NC NAACP did nothing when a white Duke student was dragged into a bathroom and raped at an off-campus party given by a black fraternity in early 2007.
The NC NAACP was founded in part by Travis V. Mangum; the father of the Duke accuser was named Travis V. Mangum, Jr.
No relationship has been proven; but if there is one, then the Duke accuser is also related to some other prominent NAACP officers in Virginia and North Carolina.
Summation: the NC NAACP was firmly behind the prosecution in one of the biggest civil rights travesties in decades, “Scottsboro II”. It violated every tradition and policy to do so.
They must feel proud. (sarc/off)
Illinois 4th Rep. Luis Gutierrez, D.
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