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'Millions More' Not Adding Up To the Original
Washington Post ^ | 10/13/05 | Robert E. Pierre and Hamil R. Harris

Posted on 10/13/2005 12:49:15 PM PDT by Pikamax

'Millions More' Not Adding Up To the Original Celebration Begins Tomorrow

By Robert E. Pierre and Hamil R. Harris Washington Post Staff Writers Thursday, October 13, 2005; B01

Ask black men who attended the Million Man March in 1995 about the experience, and a typical response is a smile and a gaze into a faraway place followed by wistful remembrances of the "brothers" they met and the lift in spirits they felt for weeks and months after it was over.

Keith Brockington missed the inspiring pep rallies in advance of the march, the caravan of buses from all over the country and the chance to stand on the Mall to be counted. He was in Germany, a staff sergeant in the Air Force, repairing aircraft and wishing he were home.

Now a civilian and settled in his native Baltimore, Brockington, 49, has a bus seat reserved for this weekend's 10th anniversary celebration -- and he plans to bring six or seven children from his apartment complex whom he helps with homework and takes on field trips. "I have to be there," he said. "I missed the Million Man March."

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: District of Columbia
KEYWORDS: anniversary; blackmales; millionmanmarch; mmm
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To: Berlin_Freeper
These jerks make it sound better than sex, when in reality it was nothing but angry black men looking to point fingers at others for their own short comings, and who numbered far less than a million.

Well, as a side benefit they did, each and every one, come away from the event with a deeper understanding of the number 17.

21 posted on 10/13/2005 3:27:02 PM PDT by rogue yam
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To: libertarianPA

"Curious, what is the purpose of this march?"

OK, now that I've seen some of it coverd on C-SPAN, I know the purpose. To spew racial hatred and call for the extermination of whites. Interesting.


22 posted on 10/15/2005 9:54:48 AM PDT by L98Fiero
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To: pabianice
Dang, is that the real story behind the New orleans levy breaking? I thought President Bush did it from a digny by dressing up as a frogman and lighting a stick of dynamite with his Zippo lighter and dropping it into the water. I figured the "Evil Jooooooooos" had to be involved. Can't these guys get their stories straight? /sarcasm>

For the humor impaired and the people who do not get sarcasm, the above paragraph is meant to be a joke and a parody.
23 posted on 10/15/2005 10:04:03 AM PDT by Nowhere Man (Lutheran, Conservative, Neo-Victorian/Edwardian, Michael Savage in '08! - ACLU delenda est!)
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