Posted on 08/31/2013 3:48:59 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Fifty years later.
They came from as near as Baltimore, and as far as Tokyo. They came despite swampy heat and intermittent rain. They came braving heat exhaustion to stand in endless lines before the Secret Service checkpoints. They came in memory of lost loved ones. They came in recognition of ongoing struggle. They came in honor of the great man and the great thing he said. Oscar winners and Grammy winners came. Union leaders and activists came. Three presidents came. Janitors and students came. One man came playing “Battle Hymn of the Republic” on his harmonica.
By the tens of thousands, 50 years later, they came. They descended on this city to mark a milestone: half a century since the storied March on Washington.
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Regrettably, no Republican official addressed the throng. Regrettably, because concern for issues of civil rights ought not be the exclusive property of any one political party. Though the two Presidents Bush were invited, both declined citing health issues. One Republican, Sarah Palin, did offer her thoughts via Twitter.
“May his dream always be reality,” she said.
“Always be.” Not “Someday become.” It was not a formulation that would have found much favor with the crowd at the Mall on Wednesday, complacently taking for granted as it does that all the work toward equality is already done.
By contrast, if one theme was common among all the speakers and all the crowd, it was that there remains much to do.(continued)
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How many threads have you posted?
Tell me again how that makes you a big man.
Isn’t there a rule here about stalking another FReeper through unrelated threads? You’ve been here longer than me, so I’d think you’d know that, right? Must have really stung you on that (almost forgotten by me) thread that you keep bringing up, huh? Don’t you have a blogger to harass? Or maybe a Palin thread where you can drop turds in the punchbowl?
Hey, look at you calling for help again!
By Jiminy you’re a stalwart hand!
Said Trayvon to George about 10 seconds before getting shot.
George never cried to mommy when he was faced with somebody “being mean” to him.
Which you have just done, right upthread.
Are you in the third fracking grade?! Grow up, for goodness sakes you whiny troll.
Oh, name-calling.
I bow to your name-calling maturity.
bfl
Oh my.
Have I failed to respect you properly?
Thanks for the post.
Interesting perspective in the article.
The cards are stacked against any Republican who might show at an affair like this. These folks don’t know about civil rights history.
Of course no black conservatives were invited.
And furthermore, where is the moderator?
Hey, Leonard, an estimated 20,000 people showed up. Where were the other 50 million Democrats?
Just three “tens of thousands” came to the 50th anniversary of the March/I have a Dream speech.
30,000 people came to a Florida-Georgia Line concert at the New York State Fair last week.
Yet the DC event is being cast as epic by the usual suspects in the MSM.
What? What remains to do? I hear this theme over and over, so let's hear the details. WHAT is this vast racial mountain that still needs to be overcome?
Because from this white middle-class American's standpoint, it's done. Blacks can vote. Blacks can hold public office. Blacks can get jobs in any industry at equal pay to whites. Blacks can own property, start businesses, marry (including outside their race), drink at any water fountain they want, ride anywhere they want on the bus, serve alongside whites in the military, attend colleges and schools beside white people, and wander through white enclaves late at night with no apparent direction and still be safe.
I might add that blacks are also free to rob, murder, and rape white people at a disproportionate rate. They are free to sit around government-supplied housing eating government-supplied food and making drug deals on their government-supplied cell phones. They are free to get preferences in jobs, promotions, and college entrance. They are free to collect welfare far out of proportion to their numbers and to prey on the hands that feed them with impunity, since no one dare condemn their dependency lest they be called "racist." They are free to conduct themselves in the most loathsome manner and yet fear no repercussions since they are "victims" of something. And in the end, they have the ultimate freedom: to live their entire lives without contributing anything to this society but taking all the livelong day.
So what more needs to be done?
I heard 20,000 and that probably means less than 15,000.
This whole article is one big lie that even a liberal trash rag should be ashamed to print.
The original event had its significance, but it drew fewer people than arrive annually every January, virtually unreported, to protest Roe v Wade. Glenn Beck drew more for Restoring Honor in 2010. It was tossed down the memory hole almost immediately.
This country has - what? - 30-40 million blacks. Apparently 99.99% of them didn’t show up, either.
WTF is this ? If he posts quality/interesting articles, who cares about the number ?
I usually agree with you about the blog pimps, this seems over the top.
What is your issue ?
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