Preacher slams 'White rage' Republicans at rally attended by progressive Democrats

Founder of the Center for Racial Equity and Justice the Rev. George C. Gilbert, Jr. was one of the final speakers at a rally for the Democrats’ election bill, the For the People Act, held outside the Supreme Court on Wednesday.

Gilbert invoked the history of American slavery in warning that "every time we come to a place of progress, to a place where we can stand on our own feet, we run into a downpour — lightning and thunder — of the power of White rage, whose job is to push progress back."  Left-wingers have leaned on racial appeals to gin up support for the bill.