i have learned through this process is that, you know, when you have a common goal, people can work together if they try. it s one of the hardest things to do in all of american politics. bring african-americans and white people into the same coalition in the south. reverend william barber ii is the president of the north carolina naacp. he comes from four generations of pastors and for 21 years he s been preaching on sunday mornings at the green leaf christian church in goldsboro, north carolina. barber has been working for years to create a cross-racial, nonpartisan coalition in the state. what we call a homegrown led state-government focused, deeply moral, deeply constitutional, pro-justice, pro-labor, anti-racist, anti-poverty,
republican control for the first time since the 1800s. a state where that power has been used to cut unemployment benefits, past voter i.d.s, to opt out of medicaid expansion. you re heard about the progressive response to that. moral mondays. we got a chance to go down to north carolina to look at the secret ingredient in the moral monday movement. it s called a fusion coalition. you ever thought you d be working with president of the naacp from north carolina? no, never did, but something i have learned through this process is that, you know, when you have a common goal, people can work together if they try. it s one of the hardest things to do in all of american politics. bring african-americans and white people into the same coalition in the south. reverend william barber ii is the president of the north carolina naacp. he comes from four generations of pastors and for 21 years he s been preaching on sunday mornings at the green leaf
naacp from north carolina? no, never did, but something i have learned through this process is that, you know, when you have a common goal, people can work together if they try. it s one of the hardest things to do in all of american politics. bring african-americans and white people into the same coalition in the south. reverend william barber ii is the president of the north carolina naacp. he comes from four generations of pastors and for 21 years he s been preaching on sunday mornings at the green leaf christian church in goldsboro, north carolina. barber has been working for years to create a cross-racial, nonpartisan coalition in the state. what we call a homegrown led state-government focused, deeply moral, deeply constitutional,