Barber to Trump;4 You
represent hate, greed'
BY CASH MICHAELS
FOR THE CHRONICLE
In a scathing open let
ter issued just hours before
presumptive Republican
presidential nominee
Donald Trump spoke in
Raleigh Tuesday evening,
N.C. NAACP President
Rev. William Barber,
leader of the "Moral
Monday" movement,
blasted the controversial
businessman's campaign
for the White House,
charging that it presents,
"... an extremist philoso
phy of hate, greed, racism,
classism and xenophobia."
"Your campaign, like
the leadership of our.
Legislature and Governor,
does not represent the poli
tics of Lincoln, the call of
justice, or the ethics of
Biblical evangelicalism,"
Rev. Barber wrote, appar
ently referencing Tramp's
previous "Ban all Muslims
coming into the U.S." and
"Mexicans are rapists"
remarks. "So far, your cam
paign as the Republican
[presumptive] nominee for
President does not repre
sent the ideals of Abraham
Lincoln, the Republican
who signed the
Emancipation
Proclamation and support
ed African-Americans in
their quest for freedom and
citizenship."
The N.C. NAACP
leader's letter to Tramp is
noteworthy because in sev
eral of his speeches, the
wealthy New York busi
nessman has claimed that
his policies will help
African-Americans in the
nation's inner cities rebuild
their communities with
more jobs.
Still, a Washington Post
poll last month found that
94 percent of African
Americans surveyed across
the nation had an "unfavor
able" view of Trump, while
logging a 79 percent favor
able view of his
Democratic opponent, for
mer Secretary of State
Hillary Clinton. Mrs.
Clinton campaigned with
President Obama in
Charlotte Tuesday, hoping
to gamer some of the pres
ident's SI percent national
approval rating and 2008
coalition voters for this
November's general elec
tion.
Even though Donald
Trump does boast of some
support from a cadre of
black ministers with whom
he occasionally meets, it
was clear frpm Rev.
Barber's letter that he has
not been one of them.
Barber further accused
Trump's campaign of not
representing the "ideals" of
pioneering black
Republicans like Abraham
Galloway, who helped to
found the GOP in North
Carolina in the late 1800s,
or Bishop J. W. Hood, who
helped to craft North
Carolina's state
Constitution during
Reconstruction.
"These Republicans all
believed in equality, voting
rights, public education,
ind decent wages. We do
not object to Republican
leadership as such, but to
its failure to honor its own
heritage," Rev. Barber
wrote.
Barber then questioned
what Trump's candidacy
actually means for the peo
ple of North Carolina, and
where he stood on the
issues of voting rights, the
re-segregation of public
education and environmen
tal protections.
"Mr. Trump, you and
many in your camp say that
you are not a racist at heart,
though Republican leaders
acknowledge the racist
content of some of your
assertions," Rev. Barber
continued. "You say you
love Latinos and care about
the sick and the poor. You
say that ybu are not xeno
phobic."
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"Please back up your
claims with concrete poli
cies. That is where we have
to look to determine these
things?not just' in your
heart, but in the potential
impact at the heart of poli
cies you propose."
"When you come to
North Carolina, remember
that you are in the birth
place of the sit-in move
ment. You are in the state
where Dr. King first deliv
ered his "1 Have a Dream"
speech in Rocky Mount,"
the civil rights leader
added.
Barber then accused
Trump of continuing the
1960's "Southern Strategy"
of dividing blacks and
whites racially, and ignor
ing the needs of the poor.
"You have taken the
'Southern strategy' a step
further," Rev. Barber
insists to Thimp. "In the
past, its devotees would
hide behind code words.
What you are saying was
only supposed to be in the
backroom, not on the plat
form. There is something
to be said for candor, but in
your case, it poisons our
civil society.
In this state?in our
Moral Movement, we have
stood together by the thou
sands with black, brown,
Asian, Native American,
young, old, rich, poor, gay,
straight, Jews, Muslims,
Christians, Hindus, and
people without faith who
believe in a moral uni
verse."
Getting such an open
rebuke from the state's
NAACP president could be
politically fatal for Donald
Trump in North Carolina.
Even though the NAACP is
a nonpartisan organization,
under Rev. Barber's leader
ship, it has proven to be a
powerful force against
what it considers to be
"repressive" Republican
policies in the state and the
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