Voting Rights Aren’t Just a Black Issue: They Affect Poor People of All Races
“‘If you are white, or you are black, or you are red, or you are yellow, or you are brown, and you don’t have enough money to pay your light bill, we’re all black in the dark, so we have got to have this conversation,’ said Barber, leader of the Moral Mondays campaign in North Carolina (and a newly minted MacArthur ‘genius’ grant awardee). ‘That is why a true revolution—a mobile poor campaign—cannot just be a black movement. It has to be a black, brown, white movement that takes race and poverty together.’”