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"The war is still raging. And [Gene Nichol]'s still fighting." —John Grisham
North Carolina has, since 2013, undergone a greater political sea change than any other state. For the first time, seven years ago, state government became completely captured by a radicalized and aggressive Republican leadership determined to produce the most ultra-conservative political regime in the nation. In a remarkably brief time span, Republican lawmakers have moved successfully toward that goal. The New York Times refers to the project as "North Carolina's pioneering work in bigotry." Other states have begun to follow what they expressly deemed the "North Carolina playbook."
Indecent Assembly lays out in detail, and with no small dose of passion, the agenda, purposes, impacts, and transgressions of the Republican North Carolina General Assembly since it came to dominate life in the Tar Heel State. Nichol outlines, without holding punches, the stoutest war waged against people of color and low-income citizens seen in America for a half-century. All-white Republican caucuses, dominating both houses of the General Assembly, have behaved essentially like a White People's Party, without the nomenclature. Bold steps have also been taken to diminish the equal dignity of women and an internationally famed crusade against LGBTQ+ Tar Heels has capped off what has become a state-based battle against the Fourteenth Amendment. But the Republican General Assembly has not stopped with substantive legal changes. It has attacked the fundaments of American constitutional government. In 2019, the state of North Carolina, in short, is involved in a brutal battle for its own decency. If the contest is lost here, other states will likely abandon defining cornerstones of American liberty and equality as well. North Carolina today is not presented with the mere give and take of normal politics. It struggles over its meaning as a commonwealth and its future as a democracy.
The book is introduced with a foreword by Rev. William Barber, leader of the Moral Monday Movement in North Carolina and the Poor People's Campaign nationally, and Timothy Tyson, Duke University civil rights historian, activist, and author of The Blood of Emmett Till and Blood Done Sign My Name.
Contents
Table of Contents
Chapter 1 - Introduction - North Carolina: a "Laboratory for Extremism"
Chapter 2 - Re-Embracing Race Discrimination: Governing as a White People's Party
Chapter 3 - A War on Poor People
Chapter 4 - Denying the Equal Dignity of Women
Chapter 5 - State-Proclaimed Disdain for Lesbian, Gay and Transgender Tar Heels
Chapter 6 - Taking the "Public" Out of Public Education
Chapter 7 - Trashing the Natural World
Chapter 8 - Attacking the Independence of the Courts
Chapter 9 - An Assault on Democracy
Chapter 10 - Abandoning Truth
Chapter 11 - Conclusion
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