Bishop Barber II Champions Moral Consciousness at Clinton Global Initiative Event

What I see or reminds us, that the hope of the repair demands that we first must face the breach We cannot ignore the realities. When I advance performer, you had or rapporteur on extreme poverty in human rights, Philip Austin, some years ago. Why is there so much extreme poverty in my own country? He said plainly to me. The issue is not a scarcity of resources. Don't let anybody tell you, we don't have enough. Because whenever we want to go to war, we can find enough. And he said, the issue is not a scarcity of ideas. We actually know how to end poverty. We just saw it just during the pandemic. We took child income tax credit get a little bit reduced poverty by fifty percent, but the problem is holding on to it, keeping it aligned. Issue is not a scarce of ideas. The issue is not a scarcity resources. The issue is a scarcity of moral consciousness. We have national elections. Those seeking to lead this country are most often never asked how are your policies going to directly address poverty and lower think about it. When is the last time you've heard of thirty minutes of presidential debate focused on poverty. And no less, in a country where nearly fifty percent of the people are poor and or major momentum. And America has a particular obligation when it comes to poverty and insecurity. You know, we still don't of poverty right in his country, poverty management is out of date. Millions right here living food that doesn't Milliams get up every morning and buy unlimited gas and think about unlimited water. You know, they were saying we shall overcome in the in the church. And things were cool, but when they were in the street, there was a song they sung. They had an attitude of eternal dissatisfaction, some anthem of it. Now, the English is bad. All our teachers are here. The English is bad. You know, and I get and I have all these doctoral degrees. I know how to put my syntax and, you know, but but but if they doesn't work when you're in the streets. Check that doesn't work when you're out there fighting against injustice. And and and and the anthem simply looked at injustice. The anthem would would look at injustice right in the high. It would look at a bomb. Right, right at the bomb. It would look at the bullets. We would look at the water hoses. We would look at our governors whose lips were tripping with the words of to position and notification. It would look at setbacks. It would look at children blowing up in churches. And with more on the phone, The anthem said, all that might be true, but I ain't gonna let nobody turn me right. And they would send them at the backbone of the news that they leave that right. Eventually, we'll win if you stay at it. And no matter what we face today, we have to declare in this moment, in album because it's time for us to ante up. This is album. Yes, we're in a crisis of civilization. Yes, we're in a crisis up in my Yes, there's a beating folks out here. Yes, we, that's a demagogue. Yes, we, we have people telling us we don't have enough funding, but somebody got the clap, we're gonna keep on keeping on. Yes. We got a supreme court that has rolled back voting rights and women's rights and BTQ right and affirmative actions in just the span of a year. Yes, we see autocrats breaking out all over the world. Yes, we see leading people. But if somebody could start singing in their heart, ain't gonna let nobody turn us around. Look at today. We'll stand up and look at today. It ain't gonna let nobody. Justice. No hate. No around.