Posted on 01/13/2017 4:45:29 PM PST by mdittmar
A week of protests ahead of Donald Trump's inauguration as U.S. president is set to kick off on Saturday with a civil rights march in Washington by activists angry over the Republican's comments on minority groups including Muslims and Mexicans.
Civil rights leader the Reverend Al Sharpton plans to lead a march along the National Mall ending at the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial, about two miles (3 km) from the steps of the U.S. Capitol, where Trump will be sworn in as president on Jan. 20.
Trump won his first-ever campaign for elected office with an angry, populist platform that included promises to build a wall along the Mexican border and restrict immigration from Muslim countries, as well as promises to crack down on companies moving jobs out of the United States.
His supporters admire Trump's experience in business, including as a real estate developer and reality television star, and view him as a brash problem-solver likely to break through political logjams.
Trump's controversial comments about immigrants and women, and his vow to repeal the sweeping healthcare reform law that was President Barack Obama's signature domestic policy achievement, has drawn the anger of many on the left, who plan a series of protests.
"The 2017 march will bring all people together to insist on change and accountability," Sharpton said. "Donald Trump and his administration need to hear our voice and our concerns."
Civil rights groups including Sharpton's National Action Network, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People and the National Council of La Raza, as well as Democratic lawmakers including U.S. Senator Kirsten Gillibrand of New York plan to join the Saturday march.
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Al-Baby’s march is tomorrow, January 14. Big whoop.
Hey!! Hold on there friend I’m Hispanic and I’ll be celebrating President Trump’s presidential swear in with a YUGE bottle of champagne...I literally can’t wait!! GOD BLESS AND KEEP PRESIDENT TRUMP safe!!
He got his doctorate from Boston University, a private school.
Al has some problems with his little party - http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3512555/posts
Just imagine the stories from a fawning press if a Democrat, who had never run for any office at any level, was elected president.
...with an angry, populist platform...
That's more or less true-see tagline.
Sharpton and the left are having The March For Strife. The idiots should be careful of what they wish for!
Since the Park Service didn't have any extra permits lying around, he was relegated to a two block "march" to some out of the way middle school or the like.
Defund any groups of federal monies... If it was about civil rights but it is about socialist and communist fantasties.
here's betting that you have no idea who Stanley Levison and Hunter Pitts O'Dell were. And what role they played the wiretapping of MLK.
,” Sharpton said. “Donald Trump and his administration need to hear our voice and our concerns.”
Hey AL..............”YOU need to hear our VOICE and OUR CONCERNS that were made CLEAR LAST Election DAY!”
YOU will be HEARING a lot more from TRUMP and his Supporters.
There won’t be liberals protesting anymore after Jan 20
I take these gatherings as farewell to O’Bambam. I thought that this week would never come!
And the media will focus on the two or three hundred people.
Thanks. It is all true. We live a lie. NO MORE!!
Ok . I think you are right. He plagiarized his damned doctoral dissertation by intellectual theft at this no named crap college. You are soo right!!
You are afraid to look. Look and e liberated from the lie of Michael king , the fraud!!
deal with these people the way Governor Ronald Reagan dealt with protesters in Berkeley in 1969
They want change and accountability. Well so do we. So they should get out of the way. Then we can show them why people say be careful what you ask for.
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