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MoMoMo: The Moral Monday Concert Series

Posted on August 6, 2013 by A.P. Dillon

Moral Mondays have vacated the NC General Assembly grounds in search of a new venue to whine to and whine they did – or rather sing. Singing, I use that term loosely here, is what took up the bulk of the rally. Perhaps they were lacking in the speaker department. They did manage to dig up a gentleman named Bacilio Castro who spoke only Spanish and had to have his speech translated. Funny thing, I think I’ve seen him before at another event and he spoke English then. Continue reading →

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#MoralMondays: Hittin’ The Road

Posted on August 5, 2013 by A.P. Dillon

Just as we all thought we could enjoy the rest of our Summer in peace, ‘Moral Monday’ decides to take their noisy band of half-baked notions and hyperbolic signage on the road. First stop? Asheville. Continue reading →

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#MoralMondays: July 29th Edition

Posted on July 30, 2013 by A.P. Dillon

Mercifully, this was the last Moral Monday.

No more “Mass Social Justice Interfaith” rallies – for now.

Today is not the last Monday. We are not stopping Moral Monday we are suspending it in Raleigh and following legislators back home

— NC NAACP (@ncnaacp) July 29, 2013

I’d groan, but instead I’m chuckling. Please, continue and follow the demise of Occupy who was at one time their own big, noisy movement and is now relegated to a subset of the Moral Monday ranks. Continue reading →

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#MoralMondays: Tugging At Those Heartstrings

Posted on July 24, 2013 by A.P. Dillon

It’s so horrifying to see an elderly man with a cane in zip ties being led away by police isn’t it? Really tugs on those heartstrings. Those evil Republicans are having people arrested. Not just any people either — the elderly! My. God. The. Horror.

Yes, it’s a tear jerker…Except that this man volunteered.

Meet Robert Plummer. Continue reading →

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#MoralMondays: July 22nd Edition (snore)

Posted on July 22, 2013 by A.P. Dillon

It’s the 12th Moral Monday in North Carolina. Just like the previous 11 before it, number 12 was filled with fun signs, screechy womyn and an endless stream of hypocrisy flowing from Reverend Barber’s lips.

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#MoralMondays: Rev. Barber Politicizes Martin Verdict (video)

Posted on July 19, 2013 by A.P. Dillon

At the last “Moral Monday” in Raleigh, Reverend Barber returned to his favorite card in the deck and gave a speech about Trayvon Martin. In the press release that accompanied the video, the NC NAACP boasted:

Less than 48 hours after the verdict in the murder of Trayvon Martin, Rev. Dr. William J. Barber, II flew back to NC from the National NAACP Convention to deliver a personal and passionate message to the Moral Monday 11 gathering at the NC General Assembly.

Yes, he dashed back to take advantage of this tragedy to score political points. Not something I would have bragged about. If that introduction wasn’t bad enough, the speech itself was far worse. Barber describes in his speech about what happened to Martin was a “lynching” and compares the verdict to Emmett Till in 1955:

Fourteen-year-old Emmett Till was visiting relatives in Money, Mississippi on August 24, 1955 when he reportedly flirted with a white cashier at a grocery store. Four days later, two white men kidnapped Till, beat him, and shot him in the head. The men were tried for murder, but an all-white, male jury acquitted them. Till’s murder and open casket funeral galvanized the emerging civil rights movement.

How repugnant is this comparison, not to mention irresponsibly misleading?

This is the face of “Moral Monday”?

Here’s the video:
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