Posted on 08/27/2010 11:57:24 PM PDT by davidosborne
WASHINGTON - The Rev. Al Sharpton says Glenn Beck and others have a right to rally in Washington, but they don't have a right to distort Martin Luther King Jr.'s vision.
Sharpton told reporters Friday that Beck and his supporters are holding an anti-government rally advocating for states' rights on Saturday. He says that goes against the message in King's famous "I Have a Dream Speech," in which the civil rights leader appealed to the federal government to ensure equality.
Beck's Restoring Honor rally will be held at the Lincoln Memorial, where King delivered his 1963 speech. Sharpton and others also plan a rally and march through the city to commemorate the anniversary of the speech.
Many D.C. Council members also gave Sharpton their support during the news conference at city hall.
Al thinks MLK dream is for blacks only. racism
Only in your fraked up worldview, Sharpton.... =.=
As always, a black politician has used a multisyllabic word tosound important.
King had a dream, Sharpton inflated it to a vision.
Of course they have the "right". It can be found in the bill of rights. Just like you have a right to peacefully counter protest.
So Sharpton and his fellow talkingpoint hustlers
1. Think they OWN a landmark like the Lincoln Memorial
because ML King made a landmark speech there
and 2. Have no problem absurdly invoking state’s rights
as the primary message of Beck’s rally.
This of course is fodder for the dumbed-down mind and it issues from dumbed-down minds like Sharpton’s and goes unanswered by the MSM.
DIfference is ,47 years ago, King was demanding the Government accept some responsibility in doing its job and fulfilling its promises and expectations.
NOW, Government CAN’T BE STOPPED from entering your lives in all unnecessary areas, except the important ones, and it’s people like Jan Brewer who are in effect acting as the new M.L. King in DEMANDING the Government do it’s job.
Anybody can call that state’s rights if they want to.
Maybe what King should’ve done was been more careful about organizing regionally rather than take it nationally on behalf of communities he didn’t have any longstanding personal relationship with. THis was actually one of Alinsky’s critcisms of King.
C-SPAN will be covering Glenn Beck’s “Restoring Honor” rally at the Lincoln Memorial this Saturday, with Sarah Palin among those expected to attend. Coverage begins 10amET.
Beck was on the Mall again today (above) taking another walk-through in preparation for Saturday.
http://cspan.org/Watch/C-SPAN.aspx
POST OF THE WEEKEND!
I have a vision for Al Sharpton. It involves him sitting in a prison cell or breaking rocks in a chain gang for his past and present crimes.
What they are saying is what they are saying all weekend with the phoney Katrina coverage- that conservatives, whites and Republicans, hate blacks. They are using Dr King to further inflame racial hatreds towards whites. That is one Dr King did not do.
LOL! Like Sharpton is the torchbearer for MLK’s vision, right?
We all know that Sharpton is a garden variety carnival huskster who makes a damn fine living exploiting the misplaced guilt of mushhead liberals with his personal brand of racial extortion.
Sharpton would be a nobody if the leftest press didn’t pimp for him.
Al needs to make his peace with Tawana Brawley first and apologize for being a charlatan.
Then he can go talk to Rev. King’s daughter if he dares...
Sharpton, the master Race/Hate Monger.
Like pimping a young girl who smeared herself with her own feces? Like defaulting on a nearly 6-figure judgment against your ass? Like making your brethren pay your debt instead? Is that the "vision"? But that's alright because whitey does it too, isn't it?
Talk about distorted vision - you need some new glasses, Al.
What ever happened to Jessie Jackson?
did the race baiter forget that MLK had a family member there today, yes at Beck’s rally not his
Al Sharpton Claims He Seen the Tea Party Racist Remarks on Video Tape(O’Reilly Factor)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2482674/posts
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1lNWY6zgxho
And if he cant back-it-up, Sharptons big talk should be his last visit on any serious news program
When Will Al Sharpton Collect the $10,000 Breitbart Racial Invective Video Prize?
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2483119/posts
There is $10,000 just waiting to be picked up by Al Sharpton. That is the prize money that Andrew Breitbart has offered to anyone who can reveal a video of Tea Party protestors in Washington, D.C. on March 20 who supposedly screamed the N-word at Congressman John Lewis.
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