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
this sense of this is just this has gone so far that it literally is stripping white privilege. whiteness doesn t echven get yo 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
mitchell county is 97% white. yancey county is almost 97% white. in may, the naacp officially opened a mitchell yancey county branch. one of five new the chapters in the state that are majority white. reverend barber found you can organize across race and party if you focus on what matters to people where they live. you a democrat or republican? republican. lifelong? all my life. consider yourself a conservative republican? absolutely. adam o neal is the republican mayor of belhaven, north carolina, rural oceanside town, home to vidant hospital. last year, they announced they would be closing pungo. the president of vidant community hospitals told all in, the failure to expand medicaid in north carolina does affect the number of patients we care for that would have been covered under this program but the expansion of medicaid would not have altered this decision.
education. republicans in the general assembly won t expand medicaid. state lawmakers debate major changes to north carolina s voting law. new law requires a photo i.d. to vote in north carolina, also shortens the early voting period in the state. today less than six years after the state went for barack obama, republicans in north carolina control the entire law making process. the first work of a moral movement is to snatch people out of depression. when these folks took over in raleigh last year, people were like, oh, lord, they got a supermajority, what are we going to do? some of us said, what did we do in the past? what did dr. king do, what did young people do? they stood up. they refused to accept reality as it was being told by the dominant power. we re asking you to disperse. cease and disperse. we ll give you five minutes. since april of last year, reverend barber has been showing up at the north carolina legislature protesting what he calls an immoral agenda.
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,