NC NAACP chair Rev. Dr. William Barber electrifies Equality NC conference with open letter opposing marriage amendment – Source: Pam’s House Blend

It was my honor to moderate the keynote panel at the 2011 Equality NC Foundation Conference on Saturday, because I was present to witness a powerful, incisive moment in the human rights movement as the Rev. Dr. William J. Barber, II, president of the North Carolina NAACP, presented his open letter to those in attendance. The letter, released in September, represented a landmark call by the civil rights leader to all North Carolinians to reject the ballot initiative that would permanently enshrine bigotry and discrimination in the state’s constitution. (Read more)

" … the United States, for generations, has sustained two parallel but opposed states of mind about military atrocities and human rights:

" … the United States, for generations, has sustained two parallel but opposed states of mind about military atrocities and human rights: one of U.S. benevolence, generally held by the public, and the other of ends-justify-the-means brutality sponsored by counterinsurgency specialists. Normally the specialists carry out their actions in remote locations with little notice in the national press. That allows the public to sustain its faith in a just America, while hard-nosed security and economic interests are still protected in secret. ": Robert Parry, investigative reporter and author