Civil rights leader condemns border wall, calls it symbol of white nationalism

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North Carolina civil rights activist the Rev. William Barber II on Monday condemned the construction of a wall between the United States and Mexico and described it as a symbol of white nationalism.

Barber is a leader of the New Poor People’s Campaign: A National Call for Moral Revival, which was launched with a march and a mass gathering Sunday in Downtown El Paso.

The campaign, which will tour 15 states, intends to revive the movement initiated by Martin Luther King Jr. nearly 50 years ago.

On Monday, Barber, along with local and national civil rights activists, visited the border fence in Sunland Park, where they chanted "tear down this wall" and called for unity of the American people regardless of their skin color or background.


“I just looked through that wall and I didn’t see criminals and rapists. I saw children,” Barber said after greeting a group of Mexican children through the bars of the 18-foot-tall steel fence.

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