Rev. William Barber II, the president of the North Carolina NAACP, took the Democratic National Convention stage Thursday night.
After he stepped off, Jannell Ross of the Washington Post called the speech, “the most engaging version of everything that every other speaker touched on over the course of the four day event.”
On the stage, he proclaimed:
“I say to you tonight, there are some issues that are not left versus right, liberal versus conservative, they are right versus wrong.”
Barber, who told the crowd he was not there as a representative of any organization, called for restoration of the “heart of our democracy.”
He continued by highlighting many of the tenets of that he has championed as the leader of the Moral Monday movement in North Carolina:
“When we fight to reinstate the power of the Voting Rights Act and to break interposition and the nullification of the current Congress, we in the South especially know that when we do that, we are reviving the heart of our democracy. When we fight for $15 and a union, and universal health care, and public education, and immigrant rights, and LGBTQ rights, we are reviving the heart of our democracy.”
Watch the full speech.
Barber received good news regarding one of his most high profile battles on Friday when a federal appeals court struck down North Carolina’s Voter ID law. Barber, the North Carolina NAACP, and the Moral Monday movement actively have campaigned to repeal the law.
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