this has gone so far that it literally is stripping white privilege. whiteness doesn t even get you over in what is now happening. tim, to watch reverend barber and the folks around him, not just reverend barber. there are a lot of different people, two different county naacp presidents that launched this lawsuit. to see them organize on that, it s not like come join our movement, what is going on, how can we help you keep this hospital? that s where organizing really starts. that s absolutely right. here s the bottom line. the whole trick and lie of whiteness for 400 years has been this idea that you can take white folks who do not have a shirt on their park hardly and say, well, i may not have much, but at least i m not black. here s the bottom line. at the end of the day, whiteness will not pay your hospital bill, whiteness will not make college affordable for you, whiteness will not get you a wage or alloy you to live at a decent living. i hope as a result of that the movements
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, transformative fusion coalition. on november 6th, 2012, organizers in the state faced a new challenge. ladies and gentlemen, it s time for a carolina comeback. it starts tonight. god bless. with that, north carolina s first republican governor in two decades claims victory. with one of their own in the governor s mansion, north carolina republicans didn t waste any time pushing forward a right-wing agenda. today the statehouse voted in favor of stricter regulations on abortion clinics. a large crowd gathered in downtown asheville today to protest north carolina s cuts to
extreme version of the north carolina republican regime is two things that are really critical around the question of whiteness. one, north carolina white voters have often seen themselves as different. we. as a different kind of southerner. as more advanced, more progressive. even when there s been a brand around north carolina. there s a brand of north carolina that is tarnished and the second thing is, as much as there is undoubtedly racism in north carolina, as there is, by the way, in new york, and in all parts of the u.s., there s also this sense of this is just this has gone so far that it literally is stripping white privilege. whiteness doesn t even get you over in what is now happening. tim, to watch reverend barber and the folks around him, not just reverend barber.
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,
two local naacp chapters and reverend barber to fight the closing. i ve been extremely impressed by him. we don t agree on all issues but on medicaid expansion, we do agree. look at the current politics of north carolina in one of two ways. permanent, enduring product of the unique history of the south, or you can choose to look at them the way reverend barber does and think it doesn t have to be that way. up next, melissa harris-perry who knows north carolina, lived there for years and is right now in the process of moving back into the belly of the beast will talk about it. stay with us.