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Post by Deleted on Aug 29, 2013 9:34:41 GMT -4
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Post by freefallin on Aug 29, 2013 13:40:38 GMT -4
with actors and activists? No thanks! They are the most liberal folks out there normally and probably were the ones that formed the rally in the first place. The "activists" were just upset that they billed it as 100K people were going to come, but realistically it was less than 20K people.
Now if there was a rally for limited government, stronger fiscal policies, improving our weak foreign policies, more accountability with government agency leaders, removing excessive government programs being forced upon small businesses, demanding equal treatment for all groups from tax agencies, taking 2nd Amendment issues off the table of all discussions, then yeah.....you would have a rally of 100K+ people and probably not just in Washington, but in every major city, MJ
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Post by Frank on Aug 29, 2013 15:30:00 GMT -4
It amazes me that fifty years ago, my father was there on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial with MLK. My cousin from Milwaukee was staying with us that summer and thought this would be an important part of American history to attend. She was a teenage rebel and begged my Dad to go, so my father took her out there. After all, he grew up in DC after his family legally imigrated from Italy, and knew the city well. She told me they were two of the very few white people that came to the event, so if you were white and in the audience, you must be important. They quickly moved them up on the stairs of the memorial. There they stood, on the steps of the memorial, with all the important white folks, listening to the speakers.
My Dad didn't tell me the story, my cousin did. My Dad lived a fairly simple life, and I thought surely I would have heard something about that considering the importance of the event a long time ago. My Dad never mentioned it his whole life until I brought it up to him before he died. He told me "Oh yeah, I was there. Boy, was it crowded".
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Post by deepsea on Aug 31, 2013 8:16:28 GMT -4
America’s only black senator, a Republican, not invited to MLK event The Let Freedom Ring event commemorating the 50th anniversary of Martin Luther King’s “I Have a Dream” speech in Washington today was missing the country’s only black senator. Sen. Tim Scott, a Republican appointed by S.C. Gov. Nikki Haley earlier this year to fill former Sen. Jim DeMint’s seat, was not invited to participate in the historic event, a spokesperson for the senator confirmed to Red Alert Politics. www.washingtontimes.com/news/2013/aug/28/americas-only-black-senator-republican-not-invited/
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Post by Deleted on Aug 31, 2013 10:25:43 GMT -4
All members of Congress were invited to the event. Scott was not invited to "speak" at the event...get the story straight.
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Post by alleycat on Aug 31, 2013 11:15:11 GMT -4
Really, deep sea never does. Even with attribution, it's wrong! Yikes. Multiplied by how many other deep thinkers.
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Post by deepsea on Aug 31, 2013 16:29:17 GMT -4
If you don't drink the kool-aid your always wrong.
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Post by alleycat on Aug 31, 2013 17:51:55 GMT -4
You're. Don't understand.
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Post by deepsea on Sept 1, 2013 6:42:06 GMT -4
You're. Don't understand. I was wrong on the first post, sorry. Thanks for pointing out your was wrong.
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Post by RobMoore on Sept 1, 2013 8:49:43 GMT -4
They weren't there to celebrate King. They were there to spread their current agenda. Why would republicans want to sit through that?
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Post by alleycat on Sept 1, 2013 14:01:27 GMT -4
You're. Don't understand. I was wrong on the first post, sorry. Thanks for pointing out your was wrong. Yw. But I don't understand what u meant.
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Post by bchevy on Sept 2, 2013 21:30:22 GMT -4
They weren't there to celebrate King. They were there to spread their current agenda. Why would republicans want to sit through that? Exact-a-mundo.. in my best Fonzy voice
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