Glenn Beck's plans for rally on a hallowed date and spot spurs countermarches

washington post ^ | 08/17/10 | staff writer

[maine yankee]

NAACP President Benjamin Jealous said that his organization and 200 other groups are planning a rally on Oct. 2 in the District "to pull America back together and put America back to work. . . . On that day we will reflect Dr. King's true legacy and his determination to eliminate poverty, racism and hatred in all forms." Other organizations are staging "counter-events" on the Mall Aug. 28, including a grass-roots network of artists, community organizers and social activists calling themselves "Celebrate the Dream," which last Thursday secured a permit from the National Park Service to unveil an original sculpture on the Mall that day. The People's Memorial to King, which organizers say will be 77 feet wide and 37 feet tall, is being designed by Michael Murphy, a 35-year-old sculptor and assistant professor of art at Georgia College and State University.

[maine yankee]

According to a person answering the phone and nps,Mall, this group is unknown to them. Anybody have any sources to find out info.

[ken5050]

Will Greta now call on them to move their rally also..

[wilco200]

Greta should stick to interviewing Gov. Brewer.

Her work on bringing attention to the illegal alien fight has been great.

[FlingWingFlyer]

NAACP President Benjamin Jealous said that his organization and 200 other groups are planning a rally on Oct. 2 in the District "to pull America back together and put America back to work.

Doing what? Cleaning up the mess?

[WOBBLY BOB]

LOL.

he just Jealous.

[maddog55]

Other organizations are staging “counter-events” on the Mall Aug. 28, including a grass-roots network of artists, community organizers and social activists calling themselves “Celebrate the Dream,”

I look forward to seeing all 8 or 9 of them in the see of conservatives.

[BigSkyFreeper]

So they're marching against Glenn Beck and not for MLK?

A great American once said, "Can't we all just get along?"

[sauropod]

"It is very important we convey a positive message that America belongs to everyone," he said. "Our rally is not an 'us against them.' We want no confrontation with Glenn Beck. But we want a confrontation with the ideas he espouses. His ideas seem to be ideas of intolerance."

Really? Then Mr. Morial, why all the whining? Since when does the "civil rights movement" have the right to appropriate the Lincoln Memorial and yet another date on the calendar? You already have MLK's birthday as a national holiday.

[albie]

“including a grass-roots network of artists, community organizers and social activists calling themselves “Celebrate the Dream,”

...they should call themselves, “Celebrating Getting Out of Bed and Leaving My Mom’s Basement”.

[screaminsunshine]

Obviously a communist front group. All on the government Dole. A rally of opressed taxpayers vs. a bunch of scumsucking tax recipients.

[bray]

How is the NAAC going to put people back to work? They going to bus astroturf and extort?

Pray for America

[Blue Turtle]

The media, sharpton, obama....are all in unison. Next time the blacks march down washington, we’ll need to COUNTER MARCH.

[Salamander]

MLK was a Republican.

Why isn’t he on their “hate list”?

[bill1952]

>200 other groups are planning a rally on Oct. 2 in the District “to pull America back together and put America back to work.

LOL! You had best vote out Obama first.

[screaminsunshine]

The communist front.

[marron]

Anyone organizing a counter-march is just going to embarrass himself.

There will be too many people there, who are too decent, that any counter-march will fall flat. A couple hundred screamers alongside a million and a half middle-Americans smiling, laughing, and enjoying themselves, will paint an indelible picture.

[stockpirate]

I hope they have a million man march next to Beck’s, but we all know that will only be 57 people.

Now on the series side, Beck should turn this in to an open carry march....just saying.

[huldah1776]

Will there be unity in DC on that day? I believe the love of God will bring all those marches together in Praise.

The white house may be divisive, but according to MLK and as is stated on the memorial being unveiled that day, “Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.”

If Beck and Palin come in the Spirit, the Spirit will prevail, and all of God’s children will hear His voice and sing in unison.

Pray for the unity of the true church to the glory of the One True God. :)

[ilgipper]

These idiots are making me reconsider jumping in a car to make a last minute trip to the Beck event.

[truthguy]

On that day we will reflect Dr. King's true legacy and his determination to eliminate poverty, racism and hatred in all forms.

Whatever you think of MLK, the idea that he could in essence reverse human nature is naivety in it's most ridiculous extreme. MLK was an economic ignoramus. He didn't have a clue in how to go about eliminating poverty since he knew absolutely nothing about how to go about creating wealth. That's the main problem with wealth redistributionists. They know nothing about how to create the wealth they plan on redistributing. This is in essence the problem all over the world.

Poverty (as we know it) is the natural condition of mankind. No one was more poor than the original cavemen. It's only relatively recently that just a handful of people in a relatively small area of the globe have been able to emerge from poverty. This is primarily due to those people who are freed up from the shackles of government and have maximum freedom and an ability to keep the majority of the wealth they produce. MLK and Obama were and are clueless about this.