the photographer an amatuer.....posting the photo to thier twitter feed...didnt get TIGHT enough to make the crowd LOOK big as is usually the case with the pros.
Posted on 08/24/2013 11:43:22 AM PDT by mdittmar
WASHINGTON (AP) — Tens of thousands of people marched to the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial and down the National Mall on Saturday, commemorating the 50th anniversary of King's famous speech and pledging that his dream includes equality for gays, Latinos, the poor and the disabled.
The event was an homage to a generation of activists that endured fire hoses, police abuse and indignities to demand equality for African Americans. But there was a strong theme of unfinished business.
"This is not the time for nostalgic commemoration," said Martin Luther King III, the oldest son of the slain civil rights leader. "Nor is this the time for self-congratulatory celebration. The task is not done. The journey is not complete. We can and we must do more."
Eric Holder, the nation's first black attorney general, said he would not be in office, nor would Barack Obama be president, without those who marched.
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Never had to attribute my success to someone else,but that's just me.
“This is not the time for nostalgic commemoration”
Certainly not as long as there’s money to be made! The civil rights movement has become little more than a cottage industry.
I’d say it’s a fairly astute maneuver on Holder’s part—now, when he’s attacked, the bleating sheep will think MLK is the target.
When it comes to Holder’s career, he didn’t build that.
Pretty sparse.
I don’t Martin King’s dream included people using their race as a tool to sloth through life on the taxpayer dole. Any person of any race has the rights now to make it in America through hard work and effort. All that government sponsored crap with fire hoses, discrimination, lynchings etc is long gone. Reparations and quotas rule the day in America now.
the professional photographs will all have been taken at the proper distance from this huge CROWD to make it impossible to determine just how few people were actually present.
MILLIONS still dont consist of mere “tens” of “thousands” in my book.
The “task” will never be done so long as there is seen to be a political advantage in the “task” not being done.
If MLK were alive today, he’d have his own show on MSNBC and crying about Trayvon getting popped by some crazy ass cracker.
Barack Obama and his legion of socialists, muslims and homosexuals, have done more to set race relations back then the KKK ever did.............
The Obamabot/Sharpton Black racist media did their best to photo op the “crowds”, however, whatever the number of folks that were there, was no where near that the race hustlers wanted or hawked. All the usual, deadbeat Obamabot types were well represented, screaming for reparations, handouts, payoffs and such...led by that Black Racist Buffoon, Al Sharpton!!! Sad day for America!!!
The great leader for freedom, dignity, liberty, individual opportunity, equality and good education for all Americans, Dr. Martin Luther King....must have been turning in his grave!!! By the way......Black brothers and sisters....how’s that present day Obama stash, & hope & change game going for you folks these days??? Unemployed, Pregnant, No baby’s father, no Family, no Education, no Detroit, no Hope , no change, no Future!!!! Ya folks done good with Obama!!!
Of course the task is not done. Ask a black person, and most will tell you, “We’ve come a long way, but we have a long way to go.”
What WILL be enough?
The big speech by obama is Wednesday,this is just the early crowd,they have time off from work.
I dream of a day when little black children will no longer grow up to kill little white children.
“But there was a strong theme of unfinished business.”
The task will never be done as long as the race pimp generation is alive. Maybe there will be some hope when they die off.
Sir: I finally got a good look at an aerial photo of today’s gathering in Washington, DC to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the MLK jobs & freedom march, in August, 1963. I would estimate that between 20-30,000 folks where there, a ton less then the Black racist hustlers hawked prior to the celebration.
The event, sad to say, was filled with the usual venue of race hate as put forth by Obama, Sharpton, Jackson, the NAACP, the CBC, etc. MSNBC did its usual routine, joining the low life, hate America gang, that advocate race hatred and such!!! The TV viewer numbers when known, will not be anything to brag about, also, as usual, from “on-life-support” MSNBC!!!
Overall....bad day for American Blacks and bad day in honoring MLK, one of the great Americans of all time!!! These folks are adrift at sea, denying the reality of what, they, themselves have created, thugs, murderers, abortionists, abesentee fathers, broken families, druggies, wife abusers, children abusers, failed cities, poor education, lack of leadership, etc., etc.!!! Martin Luther King is crying in his grave for Black Americans have lost their dignity and way at the same time!!! Sad!!!
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