The renewed version of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.'s campaign to lift poor people is holding its first national mobilization, with actions and events planned Monday in 32 states and the nation's capital.
Poor people, clergy and activists in the Poor People's Campaign plan to deliver letters to politicians in state Capitol buildings demanding that leaders confront what they call systemic racism evidenced in voter suppression laws and poverty rates.
Among those who have signed on to the campaign is the Rev. John Mendez, pastor of Emmanuel Baptist Church in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, who recalled protesting in New York City in the 1960s.
"I've been waiting for almost 50 years for this to actually happen," said Mendez, 68.
The campaign is especially important now because the leaders who don't want to help the poor "should not have a free hand to say and do whatever they want and there be no resistance," he said.
The letters to politicians call for a new course in government. "Our faith traditions and state and federal constitutions all testify to the immorality of an economy that leaves out the poor, yet our political discourse consistently ignores the 140 million poor and low-income people in America," the letter states.
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5 comments:
More liberal BS! Yes the poor are the ones that are forgotten! But let me tell - the real poor people in this country can't take off of work to go protest! They can't afford to travel! They can't afford the gas money!They can't afford a hotel room! If this protest happens it will be with the LIBERALS not the real POOR PEOPLE!!!!!!!
White people growing weary.
Are they admitting all the government programs providing food, housing, free cell phones, free medical care, and government cash payments, do nothing to get people out of poverty? I bet they want more government money to "solve the problem." I bet they don't protest for more jobs. The poor are government dependents, and don't want to work. One has to ask the question, in this country of rights; does someone have the "right" to be poor? i.e. not to work and have someone else pay for their subsistance? If so, why do we insist on taking that "right" away from them?
If every poor person was given one million dollars the chances that they would thrive in the long run are minimal at best. There are people who simply cannot manage money and have no concept of a budget.
I'm white. My daughter is white. She works extremely hard but she doesn't work for a company with good health benefits so she manages. It isn't just blacks that experience this type of situation. Get off your high horse "poor liberals" and seek a job- stop spending your energy complaining. As far as I know the Government sends checks to the poor. Food banks, free phones, free abortions. Now what?
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