(News & Observer) A talk by Palestinian-American activist Linda Sarsour calling for a progressive movement in which people may not always agree with one another drew a standing ovation Sunday from most of her audience.
About 60 demonstrators, both critics and supporters, and roughly 10 law-enforcement officers gathered before the speech outside the Whitted Building in Hillsborough. Later inside, Sarsour told the audience that the protesters, including a couple carrying Trump MAGA signs, didn’t bother her.
“I don’t care about people outside. I don’t care about those people down the street,” she said. ”They’re gasping those last breaths of white supremacy, and that’s OK with me.”
Sarsour was co-chair and lead fundraiser of the first Women’s March on Washington in 2017.
