Let the Church Say "AMEN"

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You can read the text but watch the video and tell me, Can the church get an AMEN?            This Minister spoke after Mitt Romney…isn't it a shame that the media took it's time to televise the NAACP booing Mitt, but not this electrifying speech from Pastor Dr. William Barber II.  This is a historical masterpiece!!!! If this doesn't get you up off your…couch…and activated…I don't know what will!!! Wow!!  VIDEO: http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/07/11/1108845/-He-spoke-after-Romney-today-and-had-people-up-on-their-feet-cheering The Rev. Dr. William Barber, II Charge to the 103rd Annual Convention of the NAACP July 11, 2012 Good morning, NAACP we certainly thank God for his grace And to our Chair who has called us to be the face of hope, Our President and CEO who has charged us to remind ourselves That there are more with us than there are against us to all the members of the National Political Action Committee and to all the members of the staff  and to our vice chair and this convention chairman. Why are we here this morning in this plenaryand not in a workshop on voting rights? In the testimony circle of my faith tradition the saints often declare if we ever needed the Lord we sure do need him now.I want to in the tradition of the hip hop tradition sample from that faith tradition and say if we ever needed to vote we sure do need to vote now for us the right to vote is not just a constitutional matter but a right borne out of struggle out of sacrifice and a gift from the God of justice who 2600 years ago had his prophet say to every nation you must do justice, love mercy, and walk humbly before your God and 2000 years ago had his Son say that the least of these must be at the center of public policy,think for a moment where we are in the time in which we are in and you will understand why if we never ever needed to vote we sure do need to vote now here we are today... Sister Dukes 393 years since the first ship landed in Virginia to bring slaves, Here we are Sister Coleman where 242 years ago Crispus Attucks was the first African American to die fighting for this country, 236 years since the signing of the Declaration of Independence, 225 years since the Constitution was adopted, 225 years since we were fractionized in that Constitution and called three-fifths of a person,183 years since Mexico outlawed slavery and 176 years since Texas revolted because they wanted to keep their slaves, 163 years since Harriet Tubman escaped slavery, 160 years since Frederick Douglass since somebody just quoted him,actually delivered in his...actually delivered in his 4th of July speech,that America's July 4th celebrations were fraud bombast hypocrisy,until America did right by the sons and daughters of slaves, 149 years since the signing of the Emancipation Proclamation, 147 years since the end of the Civil war, 142 years since the ratification of the 15th Amendment, 118 years since the riots of Wilmington North Carolina to stop black political power, 108 years since the riots in Springfield Illinois, 68 years since Smith v. Allwright opened up primaries for black people, 68 years since Primus King was denied the right to vote in Georgia in a primary, 58 years since Brown v. Board of Education, 57 since the brutal murder of Emmett Till, 52 since the sit ins in Greensboro organized by A&T and Bennett students, 46 years after Barbara Jordan was the first African American to sit in the Texas Senate, 48 years since Fannie Lou Hamer said there comes a timewhen you get sick and tired of being sick and tired, 51 years since Dr. King said to the AFL CIO that the only voting bloc that could transform America would be for blacks and labor and poor whites and Latinos to learn how to work together, 49 years since the murder of Medgar Evers, 49 years since the March on Washington, 49 years since the bombing of four girls in a Birmingham church, 48 years since the signing of the Civil Rights Act, 47 years since Bloody Sunday, 47 years since the Voting Rights act, 47 years since Malcolm X was killed, 44 years since students at South Carolina State were massacred, 44 years since the assassination of Martin Luther King, 44 years since the signing of the Fair Housing Act, 43 years since conservatives dismantled the Office of Economic Opportunity, 43 years since my parents fought to integrate public schools, 3 years since Barack whose name means Praise the Lord was sworn in to be President of these United States, 8 years since James Johnson was wrongfully incarcerated, 6 years since John [Menier?] was wrongfully incarcerated, 1year since Troy Davis was murdered by the state, 4 months and 11 days since the shooting of Trayvon Martin, 4 months since the secret documents revealed by the National Organization on Marriage that they started the same sex marriage fight not for moral reasons but to split the black and LGBT community in order to defeat President Obama.We have been through too much and seen too much and fought for too much If we ever needed to vote...! that's why you're here but there's one more piece not only have we been through too much there's still too much to fight for... 27.4% of African Americans in poverty 12 million children red yellow black and white in poverty 27 million Americans unemployed 14% of African Americans unemployed 49 million Americans uninsured 1 out of every 5 African Americans uninsured 1million African Americans incarcerated Politicians can say "elect me and I'll take your healthcare" "elect me and I'll take your voting rights" "elect me and I'll take your social security" "elect me and I'll re-segregate your public schools" "elect me and I'll ignore your poverty" and still get votes! Here we are 22 million African Americans eligible to vote and yet 8 million didn't vote 1% of the population controls 42% of the wealth 10% of the population controls 93% of the wealth 117 days until election day and across this nation there are tough times  we've seen an implosion of our economy despite the evidence there are those who want to give pity to billionaires and inflict more pain on the poor we see politicians that pander to bigots and race baiting those who have been forced to get on welfare never in history has so much money been spent to resist equality the gross sums of money being spent to take us backwards is lewd, is pornographic is blatant and is arrogant these are troubling times corporation are treated like people people are treated like things banks get bailouts from loans with our money with no interest and the banks turn around and lend us our money back to us with interest  these are critical times and if we ever needed to vote we sure do need to vote now I don't know if Republicans are going to show up I don't know if Democrats are going to show up but the sons and daughters of slaves we better the hell show up! That's why we're here Our parents did more with less than we have today with less they beat slavery with less they beat Jim Crow with less they beat lynching with less they beat the KKK with less Harriet Tubman got 500 slaves out of slavery she didn't have email she didn't have text Facebook she didn't have [???] she didn't have texting or even know what Twitter was she didn't have a car but she had faith in God a 38 pistol on her side moss on the north side of a tree and a north star in the middle of the night she did more with less we must do more with more so from now until November email everybody you know tell em to show up cause if we ever needed to vote, we sure do need to vote now text everybody tell em to show up MySpace everybody tell em to show up take some of them friends you don't need to have off Facebook and get some real friends up there tell them to show up call everybody you know knock on everybody's door I don't know how to tweet but my children or daughter can tweet I told them to tweet tweet tweet, tweet tweet tweet every body you know! because God is not going to do for us what we can do for ourselves if we ever needed to vote, we sure need to vote now and when we do Leon what we are supposed to do God will show up God will bless our efforts He always has He always will when we work our faith miracles and movements faith is what you believe about God works is what you do because of what you believe about God faith without works is destitute and devoid but faith with works is dynamic and can change a destiny whenever we work our faith, God shows up when Moses stretched out his rod God showed up the wind came down the Red Sea opened up Pharaoh was brought down when they marched around Jericho God showed up walls fell down when David threw the rock God showed up Goliath came down when Daniel went in the lions' den God showed up the lions calmed down when Esther went to see the King God showed up evil plans were turned around when a woman touched the hem of his garment God showed up blood disease slowed down when a boy gave the lord fish five loaves God showed up and a buffet came down when Jesus went to the cross God showed up Satan's kingdom was torn down early Sunday morning resurrection happened and the angels had a holy ghost throw down   when Thurgood Marshall went to the supreme court and America's segregation was brought down when Rosa Parks sat down God showed up Jim Crow had to step down if we vote the tea party will be voted down every time we put our faith and our works together evil is shut down God shows up! I got a question for the NAACP Do I have a witness? Won't God show up? Won't God show up? Won't God show up? What's in your hands? What's in your hands? Use what you got— God will give you what you need! Won't he show up? Won't he show up? If I was in North Carolina I'd say say yeah say yeah say yeah yeah yeah yeah now tell your neighbor, "neighbor if we ever needed to vote we sure enough sure enough sure enough need to vote! right now!" and God! will! show! up!