Posted on 08/17/2010 12:14:52 PM PDT by 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.
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“These idiots are making me reconsider jumping in a car to make a last minute trip to the Beck event.”
There comes a times when you have to take a stand and STAND for something. This is one of many times now and here to come.
My spouse and I are making the trip...hope you can, too.
The Lincoln Memorial and mall is not “hallowed ground.” It is not set aside to remember the dead; it is used by generation after generation to celebrate new beginnings and express hope for new beginnings.
Finally...somebody who actually *appreciates* my shameless, obnoxious instigating....LOL
Nobody owns the Washington Mall. This is just another case of left-leaning people acting like totalitarians.
“a grass-roots network of artists, community organizers and social activists”
To put it more clearly, professional leftists.
Yeah, these are the garden variety paid protesters who march with factory-made protest signs.
The only reason these leftist piles of trash are even countering the 8/28 rally is because the leftist dirt bags are losing this whole debate to decent, upstanding, honest, hardworking Americans.
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