Rev. William Barber: Poor & Low-Wage Americans Are the Real 2024 Swing Voters | Amanpour and Company
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- Dr. Rev. William J Barber II argues that the issue of poverty in America is often racialized and marginalized as a Black issue, ignoring millions of impoverished white people. In his new book, the esteemed civil rights campaigner aims to expose myths about race and class in order to reconstruct American democracy. He joins the show to discuss the causes of poverty and the policies that can address it.
Originally aired on June 21, 2024
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Reverend Barber is a beautiful human being
Whoa!! This man is telling it like it is. Thank you, Reverend Barber. 100%!
Unfortunately, this country was never built on democracy for the people!! Only certain people....
135 million in poverty.everybody should be enraged!!!!wake up!rise up!get out in the streets
Yes! Deport every illegal and spend that billion and billions of our money on us!
Save America
Trump 2024
Its evil
@@ernstthalmann4306 Democrats are evil.
It’s 40 years of Reagan Era, rich guys get richer.
Doctors in MI in the ER walked off the job. Can you hear me now?
It’s up to us.
We pay the taxes of the deadbeat Dads. Elon Musk, Gates, Icahn, Bloomberg, Cook, Bezos, pay no tax.
That means we do.
John Lennons Power to the People says : A million workers working for nothing
You better give 'em what they really own.
They are waiting for us to do something.
Educate ourselves and others.
MY President went to the picket line. Think of what it means. No other President has ever done that.
Thank you! But even churches don't give a damn!
Poor people unite!!!
That's one of the most worthy causes I heard Rev Barber. Poor people in this country have suffered far too long at the hands of crooked politicians and the super-rich. It's way past time for all poor people to rise up together, no matter the color. Black, white and in between. It's time for poor people to get their share, so we can live in dignity and not have to scrape by. The billionaires have more money than they know what to do with. What they use it for is buying politicians that keep them super rich and take from the rest of society. Keep doing the great work Rev Barber. I'm a white woman myself and I grew up poor.
Register and vote, help others register and get to the polls.
VOTE BLUE 💙 SAVE AMERICA
Sign up at Poor People's Campaign
The problem is why always the poor vote against their own interest? Republican and Democratic parties respond to the interests of the wealthy. We need a true party of the poor and workers!
That will never happen..unless capitalism is abolished..
Dozens of podcasts right now….experts don’t have answers either. Why are people saying they’re voting for him?
Only conclusion so far is…it’s a cult.
The more awful he is, the more they cling to the idea.
Heard today the advice….pick one area and know it. Talk to them about that subject alone.
If trying to do all of it…they are overwhelmed and cling all the more. It’s better to find one thing to agree on, then work on more over time.
Looking at Rev Barber brings so much back. It’s easy to find photos now….we had Life Magazine. Now we have iPads.
Those faces, that resolve.
They believed. Believing is seeing.
We have a party with a policy platform for programs to end poverty but the Republicans have used their money to block and obstruct the bills in Congress and in businesses.
VOTE MAGA OUT
Rev Barber is my favorite activist.
I am from North Carolina, God bless you., I am white living in Charlotte and am very impressed every time I have seen you. I only realized you were fellow Carolinian yesterday and would love to start going to church again with your preaching. Thank you.
It’s too bad both parties have sold their souls to our greedy corporate overlords. We need a strong third party candidate to run on raising the minimum wage, instituting a wealth tax, paid leave, Medicare for all, and cleaning up our environment. A better, more equitable country is possible.
I'm voting for mass deportations.
BERNIE
No, we have a 2 party system. The whole concept of third party to fight against the 2 is flawed. Pick one of the two, and make it change. The Tea Party did that with the republicans. If you want a party that is for working people instead of corporations, then unions and working people must organize and take over one of the parties.
@@leelindsay5618 We are. Because the GOP is infested with crazy MAGA hate, we're in the other party now, working to increase wages, protect our unions, hold corporations accountable for union-busting and monopolistic price-gouging and more. We'll continue to build power and influence with the other party as long as we need them. While we still have many rivers to cross, and far to go, we're moving forward and making progress.
When it costs a candidate running for office tens of millions of dollars to campaign, when an elected official must bow to the highest bidder in voting to keep their job, we have a solvable problem: GET THE MONEY OUT Before the Supreme Court Citizens United "corporations are people" decision, things weren't great but they were far better than today. Even today, we have seen rich people take back their contributions to bad candidates when we outed them. We have seen politicians change their votes when we pressured them.
We CAN get the money out. We just have to do the work. Our first milestone will be the November elections. We must gain full control of Congress and the Presidency. With that done, we can begin the pressure campaign to force passing legislation that will end corporate influence in politics. We can do it. We just have to leverage ourselves into position by sweeping the elections.
I am a white woman who was born into poverty. I have known the statistics that Rev. Barber speaks of. It is only after almost losing my life and lawsuits that I am no longer poor. But I will never be able to shake the trauma of child poverty. Ever. I have been so harmed by not having things that I desperately needed at an early age. We must stop this. I believe strongly that it is part of who I am to remind people that poverty costs them more to sustain people in poverty that creates a caste system, than to do the right things that Rev. Barber speaks so eloquently about. Change the systems that continue to hurt people. Dr. Barber is right keep poverty on the table for all to see and don't let them turn away to the sanctuary or their comfortable lives.
The revelation of US' failure is "means testing", for essentials. It is admission that essentials aren't being met, by the configuration of our economy. First and foremost, wholly inadequate min wage.
Suggested reading, White Trash. This predation has been the US, from its beginning.
To me poverty is a big problem as far as I’m concerned it’s sad no matter who is living in poverty!! Most of us that make a bit more than the poverty level are working hard and if anything happens like car problems or getting sick we are less than a paycheck away from losing everything!!! I got sick and lost my job I lost my apartment and had to move in with my friend then I had a major car breakdown it’s a nightmare out here we can’t afford to buy a house we can’t afford to rent!!
Humanity .!! Great Man Dr. Barber .!!! May God bless
As a poor person who has always worked hard, just to be taken advantage of by every corporation, bank and employer I’ve ever had, I find this man’s common sense and statistics hard to hear because it’s heartbreaking to know this is all true. The working poor are the slave class of this country.
As long as you limit it to only those who can work, you're damning the rest of us. Do our lives matter?
Sign up at Poor People's Campaign
He’s such a great man. Thank you for giving him time on your platform. More channels need to listen to him!
Fully agree, if all the underrepresented unite we can change this country forever
He’s speaking the truth.
genuinely fascinating, very clear policy ideas, doing it right costs less in the long run. thank you
Spot on.
Run Rev.
The stats you have by memory….its breathtaking.
Minimum Wage needs to be indexed. End of problem.
It’s a political football. Take it from them. When Cost of Living goes up, so does Minimum Wage.
I looooooove U Rev Barber!!
I love this man
👏🏼 👏🏼 👏🏼
so many people do not look into the policies, statistics, offices, etc The truth of all of this is out there. People, make the EFFORT❕it is absolutely worth your time❕
This man has an important message for Americans. Rev. Barber is the first person since MLK jr. to face this issue head on for all people living in poverty and to bring it to public attention. Long may his voice be heard.
He a christian.....trying to score points...and a fraud.
Learned the realization of poverty (not a racial issue) nearly 20 years ago, stunned nobody talks about it. When there, hopelessness sets in ('voting useless') as well as barricades to voting. Many with mental health issues (poverty-stricken as well) face insurmountable barricades
If we eliminate poverty (an achievable goal) who will the upper classes be able to feel superior to? And how will they keep the population acquiescing to their inept ruling of the country/world?
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We can crack it ….free computers to children. Everyone will be lifted out of poverty at the same time.
Anyone who had broken free says it was education and determination.
Put the world in a child’s hands with computers.
Look it up….the remotest parts of the world….might be but one screen , ten kids beaming as they watch.
Look at the pictures. Don’t need wires…there’s a way, the more computers, it generates more computer connectivity.
Republicans be like…..where’s the money coming from? Uhhhh, what’d you do with it?
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Do what China does straight up bribe the lower classes into submission with free or low cost housing, advanced transportation systems to link em together. A robust economy to shrink the poor class and increase the upper classes until they are a majority
Look if they want to feel achieved in their business that's well, but we shouldn't be concerned with their desire for superiority over others and should continue shaming this. Hopefully they won't, Barber's campaign continues and even RFK jr. (although some of his takes I wouldn't agree with) then our republic will actually get back on course and our institutions will have to serve the majority. There is always going to have to be checks though on the wealthy
Is there a Middle Class in America, still?
Nope
Nope, unions created the middle class - nothing else. With union power, we could again have a middle class. Without unions, there are only the wealthy and the poor.
"They call it the American Dream because you have to be asleep to believe it ". George Carlin
Middle class is now a tentative small window, in people's lives. The chronic economic turbulence ensures most are unstable.
I've never seen so many license plates from far and wide, as people scramble around the country, looking for work.
Republicans should read their Bible for understanding & emphasize God's preferential priority for the poor. Republican policies are not Christian, read "Poverty, By America" by Matthew Desmond.
Christians only use their Bible to destroy not to build up and support. If christians citizens in America followed what their jesus said to do the solutions to poverty, sickness, homelessness ECT would have been solved decades ago.
Can't have billionaires and a "Great America" again. Don't care what party you vote for.
I've heard SO many working poor say they'll vote when someone shows up to ask them to. Working w Dem groups I had trouble making them understand they gotta meet poor people where they're at LITERALLY, stop just going places you already have the votes & go find NEW voters.
Rev. Dr. Barber has it right. Behoves politicians to listen to him. Hope his words go far and wide to the electorate. It is about time both parties learn their job is to serve the people.
Big facts!
He is 100% right!
Thank you, Reverend Barber!
I just wish more people could appreciate the absolute struggle it is to claw your way out of generational poverty.
the deficiencies, the damage it causes to the limbic system..
I met The Rev few years ago. I admire his consistency for real
Thanks for raising awareness of white poverty. It’s high time.
“I sit on a man's back choking him and making him carry me, and yet assure myself and others that I am sorry for him and wish to lighten his load by all means possible… except by getting off his back.”
- Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910)
Me and my whole family are poor white at the bottom of society. Thank you Barber for talking about white poverty. I've felt my whole life people like MTG or Trump do not care about me even though they're white. Middle class and rich whites don't care about poor whites AT ALL usually
Voters will not vote for anybodys that will help them. They vote for the candidate that the news media tells them to vote for.
Americans must research what Republican captured states have passed into laws, behind closed doors. For example: Oklahoma Republican State HB3133 allows Law Enforcement to classify hispanic Oklahomans with any "street gang affiliation" as Terrorists so they can put them in detainment compounds indefinitely and seize all their property, such as cars, cash, houses, land, businesses and bank accounts.
There is a word for that,, Fascism. State terrorism.
Whereas in Florida, they focus predation on blacks.
The extent to which the South engages in this, target and leach, looks to be some fundamental immorality they can't shake off. Reputation laundering with "Good Christian" for 1 hour, on Sunday church attendance.
@@EricForney-uz4iz Predation.
THE MAJORITY
DUE TO THE THIEVES IN POLITICS GOVERNMENT COOPERATIONS ETC‼️
I love you, man. ❤
Not always. One of my degrees has an average starting wage of $50,000, the other has an average starting wage of $38,000. I have NEVER made over $30,000 in red state West Virginia even when I once worked FIVE JOBS (as a substitute teacher, English tutor, library clerk, Sylvan instructor, AND reading program assistant). The reason for this is WV is LOWEST average wage state and 2nd POOREST state in the country where ALL education is despised except for anything related to fossil fuels. When you take into account the cost of a vehicle, insurance, gas for a commute, and work clothes, I am as well off NOT working as working here. Yes, it IS that bad here in WV, and I will be voting for Biden as I ONLY vote for the party trying to raise the minimum wage, pass universal healthcare, implement child and eldercare, AND regulate prescription drug prices. Trump and Republican offer NOTHING to any person making less than $225,000 per year -- NOTHING.
Amen! ❤️
"If I want to aid the poor, that is, to help the poor not be poor, I ought not to make them poor."
- Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910)
I am blessed to have risen out of poverty but I will always feel poor. It's so, so important for everyone to realize race was invented to keep black and white poor people from joining forces!
It's misguided to think that the institutions that caused poverty and extreme wealth inequality will be the same system that can correct it.
“The two greatest obstacles to democracy in the United States are, first, the widespread delusion among the poor that we have a democracy, and second, the chronic terror among the rich lest we get it.” - Father Edward Dowling, Chicago Daily News, July 28, 1941.
Amen!
Great to hear a true leader! It is so rare these days.
Dr Barber doing God’s work for sure. He carrying on MLK poor peoples campaign. I no longer identify as Christian many just too catastrophically corrupt but love Yeshua. I put down religion for relationship. I did learn not to trust humans until I had very good reason when I was a Bible thumping hypocrite of a Christian because trust is earned and we all sinners saved by grace.
Thank you for this interview!
Only if they show up. "Majority" of voters are older, white men.... unfortunately.
And the King will answer them, ‘Truly, I say to you, as you did it to one of the least of these my brothers,[a] you did it to me.’
Matthew 25:40
The MAJORITY MUST TAKE CHARGE AND STOP RELYING ON THIEVES ‼️‼️‼️💯‼️‼️
Even Rev Barber skips over people who are too old, too ill, too injured work! Only focusing on wages leaves out the poorest. Our lives just don't matter! 🤬😤
Poor is poor. Regardless of working status.
@@MrHello-nx4xs Exactly! So why are we ignored? Puritanism lives. 🤬
@@auntiebobbolink Because your name isn’t called does not mean you are ignored.
@@MrHello-nx4xs Thanks for missing the point and making it my fault.
@@auntiebobbolink No no.
They have worked together before with the mines of the southeast, lad u referenced that. It's not just about race, it's also about class. We think we live in a classless society here, but we don't. There are the rich & everybody else is unimportant even tho our labor makes them rich. The rich need to pay their fair share. The wealth tax USED TO BE 80%!! Now it's less than 20%. This is SO WRONG on so many levels I would run out of space to list them.
Owsley County ,in the Appalachian area of Eastern ,Ky is listed as the 2nd poorest county in the USA-Its population is almost entirely White.If you visit,you'll find poverty which would be recognized as such ANYWHERE in this hemisphere.
There might be less to go around (for the "privileged" folks) if everyone gets a fair share, but it makes for a better and more hopeful future. And present.
The horrendous skew came about with All In On 401Ks. People handed their money over to ... Wall St. One for you, one for me. One for you, two for me. One for you, three for me.
As more landed in investor wallets, Wall St tilted into not just steady returns, but growth of return rates, iterated above. You can't get ever more for investment machinery, without grinding the labor market/workers.
It must have been awful prior to the 1970s, when investors got a mere %5 return, for literally doing nothing, and had no national insurance model, the public taxes to bail them out for their "risk".
Dumbo or Demento, with the Senate and House packed with the same old slime. This is the best you can come up with, America?
No, it isn't. But with the voting process controlled by the parties, and [Not-Necessarily-]Citizens United granting (why the heck, I'll never know how this got bundled in) anonymous tax exempt campaign spending, yes.
These people are murdering us poor folk - especially the old !
The history of the US is dependence on immigration, because yes, US kills off its own population. Wars, industrial diseases, etc.
Reverend? Of WHAT? He’s the one makin the money.!
I love and respect Rev. William Barber…..Does anyone on this show understand camera angles, and how to visually set up an interview on a podcast ?
Doesn’t seem like it……..Come on, wake up! PBS or whoever……This was a disgrace to Rev. Barber and his very important message!!!……..Really sloppy!……..Get your stuff together……..
3 days ago, 14k views.
That's terrible.
Inherited wealth means poverty is intrinsic.
No, I do not want to take your inherited wealth, I want you to share.
Currency represents the Union's assets.
It is not yours, you are withholding it, because you want things like roads and schools and police.
If you don't want those things, we don't need currency at all.
Amen Reverand
Bingo
Thank you.
Green Party 💚👍🍷👍
Love this man!! I grew up in Memphis, TN . Single mom, put her self through school. Got my first job bussing tables at 14 and I made $2.13 an hour!!!
I live in a low population county in Tennessee. I have never seen a black person in the Second Harvest distributor in the town I live in. They're all visibly people of euroethnic descent.
If we were to admit that poverty is a white people problem, we would embarrass the white people going to Second Harvest that are also voting for Republicans....
Whites in poverty are dismissed as rare.
Whites in poverty who vote Republican have the same limited choice of the Wall St wholly owned and operated 2 parties, neither of which work for their benefit.
If we were to admit that poverty is a white people problem, then you wouldn't be trying to blame them, for our two party corruption problems.
And Latinos
Red states and counties have the most poverty. 🇺🇸💙
Maybe. Hard to tell these days, with illegal migrant glut in the blue cities.
Hmm, so black people are finally realizing that the only color that really matters is green. Welcome aboard brother.
poverty is necessary to promote capitalism. All gov'ts need poverty-a problem to pretend to solve. either you choose poverty, or the gov't decides who should be poor. So every 4 years the gov'ts expect you to vote on how you want to be poor.
Dr. Cornel West for president!
Neo-liberal capitalism is the problem across party lines be it a R or D ✊
It's an accelerate, of decline.
How about focus on your community
My community is mankind.
Focus determines reality.
Us and them is only round and round.
@@Dam-a-fence well certain groups are targeted more than others… like his….
With no mention of the FBI or CIA.
THANK YOU Rev. Dr. Barber, for mentioning $2.13/hour, the deplorable federally-legal minimum wage for tipped employees. Predictably, for states that once fought a war so they could own slaves, most of these are in the south
Confederate states are mostly red states. And these states continue to lose.
Why do you assume that?
New Hampshire legislators and governor passed a bill to cap min was to $2.37, should the feds surpass that. Not that there's any sign of the feds raising min wage.
$2.13 an hour "industry" == "I don't want to EARN a living, I want to pilfer the profits of someone else's labor."
Blessed are the meek for they shall inherit the Earth.
Means war might eventually kill off the war like genes.
I disagree, the words claiming it will die off will kill it off in my opinion.
That which you do for the least of my brothers you do for me.
If I have never harmed you on purpose, what cause have you aside from war to harm me?
Amen. Made me read the Book of Isaiah again.
why read filth? christions want you to be poor.
I cast my first vote at age 21 for Jimmy Carter.Voted in also was a democrat majority 95th congress. Discussed during this congress was raising the minimum wage.Also considered was indexing the minimum wage with the rate of inflation 34 Republican Senators voted in favor of the measure and 61 Democratic senators voted against it. Among the no votes was democrat Senator Joe Biden. You could not google the outcome of this vote in 1977. You can however today google how many times senator Biden has voted against raising the minimum wage. Working class people did not what they were getting in the last election. Hopefully they do now.
And the R controlled House, Senate and White House moved on raising min wage?
No, no such thing.
Yes, the Ds and Rs politicians are near indistinguishable, it's just a variation in the level of expressed contempt for the public.
Here's hoping Biden reaches out to these folk during the debate. Trump doesn't give a damn about them!
Us, the politicians don't give a damn about us.
And to compound this mess..Here come SM to create a fantasy world for the Gen Zers..
Not sure why Barber is EVER in the spot light, he was such a jerk when I lived in Charlotte. The media is always looking for loudmouths.
The democrats are more concerned about lbgt and trans rights ..
Whereas the republicans are focused on women's uteruses as a publicly controled resource.
Glad to see that the Reverend is well fed
The wise Bishop has medical issues.
Junk food is cheap
That's the important thing about the video's message you just had to post? SMH
Your brain is poorly fed by a blood supply
@@towritemichelle210 Junk food is not cheap and should be prohibited as a food stamp purchase.
…. sorry… - but: „No Sorry“ . Why should anyone listen to someone who is representing himself with such a top-down positioning Attitude ? From my subjective point of view this posture reveals nothing but pure emotional, intellectual and mental poverty hence immaturity . He appears more to be a tyrant than a reverend .
Your subjective viewpoint is missing ethics.
Living wage. If a purported "business" isn't paying living wage, then the public is supplementing that shortfall - which is a circuitous charity, not a business.
In which case, they should close their doors, and we, the public, should put these people to work, for our benefit - being as we're paying their living.
Poverty is not caused by skin color. It is caused by poor people's refusal to work. First - to work at learning job skills. Second - refusing to work at a job for less money to gain those skills. Too many bad apples suggest to solution is to give poor people money. I think they should go hungry as a motivation to finally working. Along with increased penalties for crime and reduced comforts in prisons, we need to step BACKWARD 50 years before we move forward. But not on educational opportunities which abound nowadays compared to 50 years ago.
Idiotic assumptions. They're ENTITLED to living wage for their work.
Thank you@@buzoff4642
Amen 2 dat..😮