The Rev. Dr. William J. Barber II recently spoke with PEOPLE about poverty, racism, the novel coronavirus pandemic and national unrest after George Floyd's death
Mass Poor People’s Assembly & Moral March on Washington
More than 100 organizations will participate, along with national figures and celebrities including Al Gore, Danny Glover, Wanda Sykes, Debrah Messing and Jane Fonda."We're in a nation where 140 million people live in poverty, 43 percent of this nation," Barber tells PEOPLE. "So when [the coronavirus disease] COVID-19 hit, America had all these wounds, these fissures. And pandemics, by their nature, exploit fissures and expand themselves through fissures.
Barber: Our response to the pandemic from the White House and the Senate was inept and impotent and deeply irresponsible. We did not do the first thing we should've done, which is put our eyes on it by going where the pandemic was and then isolating it and then tracing it and tracking it and testing for it. Instead, we had denial and lies and blame.
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