“Today we face a moral crisis,” said Barber, the top official of North Carolina's NAACP and president and senior lecturer of an interfaith, interracial activist group called Repairers of the Breach. “A misguided ruler, Trump, has nominated Senator Jeff Sessions for attorney general of the United States. But Sessions's immoral record shows consistent support for ideological extremism, racist and classist policies, and the writing of discrimination into laws.”
Barber, who delivered a well-received speech to the Democratic National Convention in July, advocating social justice with a thundering, evangelical passion, was visiting Washington in advance of Tuesday's scheduled Senate confirmation hearing for Sessions (R-Ala.).
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