Moral Monday movement began under Democratic power, predating the GOP assault

Evidence

The movement was not simply a reaction to Tea Party Republicans. “We started this when the Democrats were in power,” Barber said. “We put out the word. The state had not complied with the Leandro decision [a 1994 public-education-equity lawsuit]. We still had not given public employees collective bargaining rights. We didn’t have a racial justice act.” But the actions of the North Carolina GOP intensified the group’s efforts. More than 900 people who engaged in nonviolent civil disobedience to protest the Republican agenda were arrested during the 2013 legislative session. — Eddie S. Glaude Jr., Democracy in Black, 523

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• XREF: Barber’s point that Democrats-in-power also failed North Carolina feeds directly the chapter’s thesis that black loyalty to Democrats is itself a trap.