In this video released by Project Veritas Action, a top Democratic donor is caught on camera disparaging members of the African American community at a fundraiser for North Carolina U.S. Senate candidate Deborah Ross.
In the video, prominent Ross donor Benjamin Barber expresses his opinion about blacks who vote Republican by comparing them to Nazis.
When you consider civil rights activist Charles Evers, brother to Medgar Evers, is a staunch Donald Trump supporter – this video is insulting in the extreme.
Benjamin R. Barber is a Senior Research Scholar at The Center on Philanthropy and Civil Society of The Graduate Center, The City University of New York, the President and Founder of the Interdependence Movement, and Walt Whitman Professor of Political Science Emeritus,
Rutgers University.
[1] From 2007
[2]–2012, he was a Distinguished Senior Fellow at
Demos.
As a political theorist, Barber argues for a renewed focus on
civil society and engaged citizenship as tools for building effective
democracy, particularly in the post-
Cold War world. His current work examines the failure of nation-states to address global problems, and argues that cities and intercity associations are more effectively addressing shared concerns. Benjamin Barber has been a Senior Fellow at the
USC Center on Public Diplomacy since 2005.
Barber was an outside adviser to President
Bill Clinton and a foreign policy adviser to
Howard Dean's 2004 Presidential campaign. He has advised political parties and political leaders in the U.K., Germany, Austria, Denmark, Finland and Italy on civic education and participatory institutions.
Barber has met with and worked alongside civil society and government leaders in Turkey, the Emirates, China, and Moammar Gadhafi's Libya.
[3][4][5]
Barber's father, Philip W. Barber, directed the New York City unit of the
Federal Theatre Project, which produced plays including
Macbeth and the
Living Newspaper. His mother, Doris Frankel, was a playwright and wrote for television.
[6] Barber himself has also been active as a playwright, lyricist (libretto for George Quincy's opera
Home and the River) and film-maker (
The Struggle for Democracy, with
Patrick Watson;
Music Inn, with
Ben Barenholtz).
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