“Ain’t gonna let nobody make me take my chair home. God made me. I belong here. I got a right to a seating’s the place. The only time you can take my chair is when I die and go to heaven.
Until then I’m fighting.” That was Rev. Dr. William Barber at a press conference today speaking about the incident where he was asked to leave the AMC Fire Tower 12 in Greenville, N.C.
after a dispute over seating. Bishop Barber, 60, has long suffered from a form of arthritis known as ankylosing spondylitis.
He travels with his own chair and almost always uses it instead of the seating provided in public spaces. Tuesday, however, he says employees at the theater would not allow him to use his special chair, saying it was a fire hazard.
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