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Endorsement Letters: Moses Carey

Posted on May 1, 2008 by Staff

For Carey

I expressly disassociate my personal sentiments expressed here from those of the NAACP, in which I play a leadership role. I write to express my support for Moses Carey to represent us in the North Carolina Senate. Like many of my friends, I love Ellie Kinnaird and have the greatest respect and admiration for her work over the years. Like Senators Obama and Clinton, she and Moses have almost identical political positions. So why am I voting for Moses over Ellie? Two reasons.

First, when Ellie announced she was not going to run this time, Moses and I took her at her word. Moses held fundraising parties and began lining up supporters. His understanding of racism, poverty and the political dynamics of North Carolina are similar to mine. I believe we could not have a more effective successor to Ellie’s brilliant efforts over the years in the N.C. Senate, and I agreed to support him. When she then said she had changed her mind, long after Mr. Carey had been running, I would betray neither Moses nor my word.

More importantly, I support him because social justice advocates could not have a stronger elected friend than Moses Carey. His legal, health, business, budget and solid political alliances and friendships across the state make him ready on Day One, as Hillary puts it, to provide solid legislative leadership on the broad spectrum of social justice issues we face. His peers — federal, state and local elected officials — elected him chair of the Alliance of North Carolina Black Elected Officials. He hosted the alliance’s second successful Black Summit last week (www.ncblacksummit.org). Perhaps the most exciting political dynamic in the state today is the rapidly developing consensus among anti-racist, anti-poverty forces around a People’s Agenda and a common political strategy. This consensus is a prerequisite to rebuilding, on more solid ground, the Black-White fusion movement that was destroyed by a terrorist attack in Wilmington in l898. All signs point to exciting new possibilities. It would be great to have Moses Carey help lead us, the state and the South during this exciting time.

Al McSurely
Chapel Hil

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