Can either side claim the high moral ground in the Wake County school diversity fight?

As noted in today's article, the various Christian leaders allying with the state NAACP to restore the old diversity policy are arguing they're on the side of good. Terms like evil and Jim Crow were bandied about at Tuesday's press conference on the July 20 mass march.

“We're here today to fight against something that is extremely evil,” said the Rev. John Mendez on behalf of the General Baptist State Convention of N.C., whose 400,000 members represent the largest black denomination in the state. “We would not be here today if evil was not pervasive. But there is something evil because it is divisive.”

We'll get more details today about the July 20 mass march against the Wake County school board's elimination of the socioeconomic diversity policy.

The state NAACP will hold a "unity press conference against resegregation in Wake County Public Schools" at 10 a.m. outside the state Capitol in downtown Raleigh. It looks like the General Baptist State Convention of N.C., which represents the state's black Baptist churches, is officially joining the protest effort.

Well probably also get details such as the route of the march and what they plan to do at that day's school board meeting. Click here for a flier about the press conference.

UPDATE

I'll have more about today's press conference later, including the closing comments from the Rev. Curtis Gatewood, second VP of the state NAACP. For now, here's the online story.

The state NAACP is lining up more non-Evangelical Christian groups to oppose the Wake County school board majority's elimination of the socioeconomic diversity policy.

As noted in today's Durham News religion column by Flo Johnston, a group calling itself the  Concerned Clergy of Durham plans to release a statement Friday in opposition to the changes being planned in Wake County. They're following up on the actions of the Wake County Clergy Coalition.

“We need to be more active, not sitting around twiddling our thumbs while the potential for re-segregation is coming into play again," said the Rev. Marilyn Hedgpeth, an associate pastor at First Presbyterian Church in Durham. "I hope we have learned from our past not to go there again."

CORRECTION

Changed to show that Barber's denomination is part of the Disciples of Christ International. Link also changed for denomination website.