The Third Reconstruction

Posted on 04 January 2018 by William J. Barber II

A modern day civil rights champion tells the stirring story of how he helped start a movement to bridge America s racial divide Over the summer of 2013, Rev William Barber led than a hundred thousand people at rallies across North Carolina to protest cuts to voting rights and the social safety net, which the state s conservative legislature had implemented These protests, which came to be known as Moral Mondays, have blossomed into the largest social movement the South has seen since the civil rights era and, since then, it has spread to states as diverse as Florida, Tennessee, Wisconsin, and Ohio In The Third Reconstruction, Rev Barber tells the story of how he helped lay the groundwork for the Moral Mondays movement and explores the unfulfilled promises of America s multiethnic democracy He draws on the lessons of history to offer a vision of a new Reconstruction, one in which a diverse coalition of citizens black and white, religious and secular, Northern and Southern fight side by side for racial and economic justice for all Americans The Third Reconstruction is both a blueprint for activism at the state level and an inspiring call to action from the twenty first century s most effective grassroots organizer. Read The Third Reconstruction By William J. Barber II – kino-fada.fr This is the second book I ve read from the Justice and Spirit Unitarian Universalist Book Club here on goodreads The book club unfortunately seems to have withered away There was a little discussion of the Rosa Parks biography in January, but last month there were maybe 1 or 2 comments and there was virtually nothing this month on this book at all, except for a thread I started with the subject line, Anybody There This is too bad, because I think this book deserves a wide readership, especi This is the second book I ve read from the Justice and Spirit Unitarian Universalist Book Club here on goodreads The book club unfortunately seems to have withered away There was a little discussion of the Rosa Parks biography in January, but last month there were maybe 1 or 2 comments and there was virtually nothing this month on this book at all, except for a thread I started with the subject line, Anybody There This is too bad, because I think this book deserves a wide readership, especially outside North Carolina.This book probably best serves as a primer for people who didn t previously know much about Rev Barber or Moral Mondays It is written in an accessible and conversational, rather than scholarly, style There aren t any footnotes The book follows Barber s life from hi...It took me a while to figure out that this book is, in essence, a sermon Readers looking for a history of the Moral Mondays movement, or a blow by blow memoir, or a handbook for successful fusion politics, may be disappointed in this book s relative lack of detail But consider the book s form one man s story of his religious and political journey, with frequent and intentional repetition of points of theology, history, and law, and expert code switching to reveal just enough of Rev Barber s It took me a while to figure out that this book is, in essence, a sermon Readers looking for a history of the Moral Mondays movement, or a blow by blow memoir, or a handbook for successful fusion politics, may be disappointed in this book s relative lack of detail But consider the book s form one man s story of his religious and political journey, with frequent and intentional...This was published in January of 2016 I bought it this summer, but didn t read it until after the election So while the book leaves us a sense of optimism, one knows now how things in fact went Also the book was apparently finished before the NC Bathroom Bill BUT, this movement is for the long run and NOT predicated on this or that particular event So while all the fears of this book came to a head in November well, the NC Governors race is still a toss up , that did not somehow disconfi This was published in January of 20...The Third Reconstruction Moral Mondays, Fusion Politics, and the Rise of a New Justice Movement by William J Barber II, Jonathan Wilson Hartgrove is a comprehensive, well written book regarding the social movement current events topic of Moral Mondays I would recommend this book to any student or anyone who likes to keep apprised of current affairs and wants a better understanding of the movement.I rated this book five stars...As I usually read and review science fiction, and sometimes non fiction science or mainstream fiction, this book is quite outside my normal span I read it because this is the 2016 2017 Common Read of my religious affiliation Unitarian Universalism A group discussion guide is available at the time of this review, from The Rev Dr William J Barber II, is president of the North Carolina ...I remember the first time I heard the Reverend William Barber II speak It was right after the Trayvon Martin verdict came in George Zimmerman was found not guilty of murder I was in Orlando for the General Assembly of the Christian Church Disciples of Christ , which was meeting in the same venue as the NAACP national convention Rev Barber came over to speak to us as a representative of the NAACP His message that evening was powerful, calling for us to embrace the cause of racial justice I remember the first time I heard the Reverend William Barber II speak It was right after the Trayvon Martin verdict came in George Zimmerman was found not guilty of murder I was in Orlando for the General Assembly of the Christian Church Disciples of Christ , which was meeting in the same venue as the NAACP national convention Rev Barber came over to speak to us as a representative of the NAACP His message that evening was powerful, calling for us to embrace the cause of racial justice We still had a speaker to hear that night, and he was good, but it was Rev Barber, a Disciple pastor himself, that caught my attention I ve had several opportunities to hear him speak since then, and I also was able to read his previous book Forward Together A Moral Message for the Nation I have found his message of a Third Reconstruction to be a powerful one, and one that is needed at this moment in tim...This is the story of the disenfranchised of North Carolina and how they rose up to create a grass roots movement called Moral Mondays The people who have populated the Moral Mondays movement are a societal extension of the anti Wall Street protests, the BlackLivesMatter surge, the slipping middle class angst, and other ...We live in a time and a world of tremendous tensions in the human community No place is thatevident than within the United States which hardly seems united at all , especially in the American South I have been living through these tensions, as we all have, and I haven t been coping very well with it all In fact, it has been outright depressing as one new murder of an innocent black man after another shows up on our news feed.Happily, for those who have been in a similar place, we have We live in a time and a world of tremendous tensions in the human community No place is thatevident than within the United States which hardly seems united at all , especially in the American South I have been living through these tensions, as we all have, and I haven t been coping very well with it all In fact, it has been outright depressing as one new murder of an innocent black man after another shows up on our news feed.Happily, for those who have been in a similar place, we have Rev W...This is a must read not only for all North Carolinians, but for all those interested in progressive change in America The Rev Dr Barber describes his upbringing, his calling to preach and the connection to social justice His bravery to travel roads I never asked my African American secretary to travel because I knew the Klan controlled them, yet holding my own breath as a Jew The book described the history of fusion politics, beginning in the late 1800 s, and his ability to form coalitions This is a must read not only for a...This book is a quick read, but the impact is enormous and inspiring I am an atheist and Rev Barber refers to us as those that struggle with faith Not necessarily true, but the very fact that we are included is what this movement is all about The book essentially recounts the fusion coalition that was built in North Carolina that took the stance that all actions of the legislature must be looked at from the point of view regarding their morality in the largest sense of the word not the narr This book is a quick read, but the impact is enormous and inspiring I am an atheist and Rev Barber refers to us as those that struggle with faith Not necessarily true, but the very fact that we...

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04 January 2018

William J. Barber II