"What I saw in North Carolina, what we defeated in North Carolina, what we filed suit against in North Carolina, is now what Trump and Pence are talking about doing on the national level: surgical racism with surgical precision... Pence and Trump donât believe in the Voting Rights Act... They know they cannot win if everybody votes. They are terribly afraid of poor and low-wealth Black and Brown people voting. And then stop saying Trump won the last time. He was elected by the Electoral College because of 80,000 votes. We have to end this mythology that he had some kind of superpower. The fact of the matter is, 100 million people did not vote. .. I couldnât help but go to the Book of Exodus, where it talked about where God said, âIf you donât let my people go, Iâm going to cause flies to come as a sign of whatâs wrong. But I wonât let the flies be on the people, but the fly will be a symbol that youâre just wrong. Youâre lying. Let my people go.â And Trump and Pence need to let the people go. Theyâve been holding poor and low-wealth people hostage, essential workers hostage. Itâs time for a change in this country."
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Rev. William Barber II in Rev. William Barber on Voter Suppression: Republicans Know They Canât Win If Everyone Casts a Ballot', Democracy Now!, (8 October 2020)
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