{"id":17285,"date":"2021-01-25T13:33:21","date_gmt":"2021-01-25T13:33:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/radiofree.asia\/?guid=710891e7480eb656ce95371c609af7e7"},"modified":"2021-01-25T13:33:21","modified_gmt":"2021-01-25T13:33:21","slug":"rev-william-barber-says-biden-admin-must-not-sacrifice-racial-economic-justice-for-false-unity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2021\/01\/25\/rev-william-barber-says-biden-admin-must-not-sacrifice-racial-economic-justice-for-false-unity\/","title":{"rendered":"Rev. William Barber Says Biden Admin Must Not Sacrifice Racial &amp; Economic Justice for False Unity"},"content":{"rendered":"\n        <a href=\"http:\/\/www.democracynow.org\/2021\/1\/25\/rev_william_barber_covid_inequality\"><img style=\"float:right; padding-left:5px;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.democracynow.org\/images\/story\/10\/56310\/w320\/SEG2-RevBaker.jpg\" alt=\"Seg2 revbaker\" \/><\/a><p>We look at how <span class=\"caps\">COVID<\/span>-19 has increased economic inequality with anti-poverty campaigner Reverend William Barber, who delivered the homily at the official inaugural prayer service. Barber says President Joe Biden&#8217;s focus on unity cannot come at the expense of major reforms needed to fight systemic racism, poverty, environmental destruction and more. &#8220;It cannot be just kumbaya. It has to be fundamental change,&#8221; he says. &#8220;We cannot be the wealthiest nation in the world, where billionaires in this country made a trillion dollars between May and November during <span class=\"caps\">COVID<\/span>, while poor and low-wealth people of every race, creed, color, sexuality have suffered and continue to suffer.&#8221;<\/p>\n      \n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.democracynow.org\/2021\/1\/25\/rev_william_barber_covid_inequality\">Democracy Now!<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We look at how COVID-19 has increased economic inequality with anti-poverty campaigner Reverend William Barber, who delivered the homily at the official inaugural prayer service. Barber says President Joe Biden&#8217;s focus on unity cannot come at the expense of major reforms needed to fight systemic racism, poverty, environmental destruction and more. &#8220;It cannot be just kumbaya. It has to be fundamental change,&#8221; he says. &#8220;We cannot be the wealthiest nation in the world, where billionaires in this country made a trillion dollars between May and November during COVID, while poor and low-wealth people of every race, creed, color, sexuality have suffered and continue to suffer.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1293,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17285"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1293"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17285"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17285\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17286,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17285\/revisions\/17286"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}