Posted on 12/13/2014 3:54:06 PM PST by Citizen Zed
They came to the nation’s capital on buses and planes and minivans and trains, from Florida, Detroit and Staten Island, led as much by the families, friends and supporters of African-American men and boys killed at the hands of the police as by civil rights leaders.
Thousands of people marched along the National Mall on Saturday to protest the deaths, mirroring protests planned around the nation Saturday, ranging from hikes in canyons in the West to marches down the streets of the nation’s urban centers. The demonstrators here — many of them wearing T-shirts that read “Black Lives Matter” and chanting “I can’t breathe” — filed in from the blocks along Pennsylvania Avenue, evoking memories of civil rights marches of past decades as they moved toward the Capitol.
“It’s a matter of honoring the lives we’ve lost,” said Jackeline Stewart, 30, of the District of Columbia, who came out in the chill to march along Pennsylvania Avenue. “It’s a double-edged sword. I’m proud that we are coming together, but on the other hand I’m sad that we are here, marching for the right to breathe.” She added, “This is not a localized issue; this is our country’s issue.”
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If Black lives matter to Black people, why are so many of them killing so many of their own race ?
I’ll bet all of the stores in the District of Corruption ran out of rescue inhalers in the first 15 minutes after they opened this morning.
This march should be in Chicago......
Is that for real?
On September 12, 2009 an estimated 2.1 million Americans marched in DC (Estimate by the US Park Police when I was there at the rally) and the media hardly mentioned that it ever happened.
When they did, it was belittled in size, purpose and scope.
You can’t ruin the narrative by telling the truth. It’s easier for them to blame white police officers for their problems instead of confronting what really plagues black communities around the country: themselves.
No. But it does nicely sum things up.
How many were really there?
I love This Bar!
All I want to know is Who is promoting these marches?
Code Pink,
CPUSA,
SOROS.?
“If only Obama were more like Idi Amin”
Well then, he’d eat his enemies livers!
Just give him time and a third term (Hell No!). This is the form of ‘leadership’ that Obama aspires to create over here,
one bogus government lawsuit against a state or a successful industry at a time.
Fixed it for you.
If the New York Times said it was thousands, change that to HUNDREDS. I was at the Washington D.C Mall when 8 protestors calling for an end to the Atomic Bomb, and the New York Time said it was HUNDREDS.
Fake but accurate.
Soros is Mister OCCUPY..and as such is very likely fully behind this sort of HOOEY
whether he’s on the books for the financai support of this particular fiasco is anyones guess at this point
the CPUSA most certainly would support the “downtrodden”.
where Sharpton gets any of his personal walking around money is a mystery...
weve just slipped back ANOTHER FIFTY YEARS
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