NNPA columnist George E. Curry has already picked his side in the upcoming battle of the marches that will take place in D.C. over the next few weeks.
Dear Dr. King,
There will be a march this Saturday to commemorate the 47th anniversary of the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. Actually, there will be two marches, with leaders of each claiming to be walking in your footsteps.
The march being led by Al Sharpton is the only one with any legitimacy. Sharpton was mentored by Jesse Jackson similar to the way you mentored Jesse. Sharpton is being joined by Marc Morial, the president and CEO of the National Urban League; Benjamin Jealous, the head of the NAACP, and your oldest son, Martin Luther King III. You would be proud of all of them. You’d be especially proud because they are refusing to let Glenn Beck, an ultra-conservative talk show host, hijack your memory. (more…)
Marches are old and played out. They no longer hold the same weight they did years ago in the imagination of the American people. So the fact that someone of Curry’s stature would stoop down to entertain the thought that one is more “legitimate” than the other shows just how out of touch both he and the rest of the talking heads out there really are.
Critics of the Tea Party movement are going to be paying very close attention to the amount of people that show up at the Beck-Fest. No matter how many people show up, the media will try to make the point that the crowd was not as big as expected. What they miss is the fact that Tea Party rallies have been going on nationwide well over a year now. The Sharpton-Fest is a one time deal. Based on that, the Tea Party movement has already proven itself to be a real movement that is (for now) in line with voter sentiment.
When people are pissed off about their government, they show that sentiment in a number of ways. Younger people tend to take their frustration out on the Internet and older generations gravitate towards what was effective for them back in their day: marches. So I find it funny when I hear people cracking on the age of the people at Tea Party rallies. Jesse and Al aren’t exactly teenagers. I wonder if anybody in the media will take note of that? I also wonder if the racial demographic will reflect the approx. 70% White/13% Black makeup of America? I wonder…
Marches move no mountains in today’s Washington. Trust me, you will not see politicians within the halls of the House and Senate peeking out of the windows quaking in their boots over the crowds. Votes and poll numbers are way more effective. Marches are nothing more than political theater that give the media something to write about.
Does Mr. Curry really believe that most Americas will be glued to their television sets (on C-Span out of all places) watching both marches as if it were 1963? If he really believes that, then he is certainly way out of touch.
I have already vented out some of my frustration with the Tea Party movement and how their efforts would be better spent making the sell to voters in places abandoned by the Democratic party. So Beck-Fest to me is just more theater–nothing more.
Votes speak louder than marches. In the meantime, grab the popcorn.
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Curry, The Joke’s On You
by Duane on August 26th, 2010 at 1:09 pmMarches are old and played out. They no longer hold the same weight they did years ago in the imagination of the American people. So the fact that someone of Curry’s stature would stoop down to entertain the thought that one is more “legitimate” than the other shows just how out of touch both he and the rest of the talking heads out there really are.
Critics of the Tea Party movement are going to be paying very close attention to the amount of people that show up at the Beck-Fest. No matter how many people show up, the media will try to make the point that the crowd was not as big as expected. What they miss is the fact that Tea Party rallies have been going on nationwide well over a year now. The Sharpton-Fest is a one time deal. Based on that, the Tea Party movement has already proven itself to be a real movement that is (for now) in line with voter sentiment.
When people are pissed off about their government, they show that sentiment in a number of ways. Younger people tend to take their frustration out on the Internet and older generations gravitate towards what was effective for them back in their day: marches. So I find it funny when I hear people cracking on the age of the people at Tea Party rallies. Jesse and Al aren’t exactly teenagers. I wonder if anybody in the media will take note of that? I also wonder if the racial demographic will reflect the approx. 70% White/13% Black makeup of America? I wonder…
Marches move no mountains in today’s Washington. Trust me, you will not see politicians within the halls of the House and Senate peeking out of the windows quaking in their boots over the crowds. Votes and poll numbers are way more effective. Marches are nothing more than political theater that give the media something to write about.
Does Mr. Curry really believe that most Americas will be glued to their television sets (on C-Span out of all places) watching both marches as if it were 1963? If he really believes that, then he is certainly way out of touch.
I have already vented out some of my frustration with the Tea Party movement and how their efforts would be better spent making the sell to voters in places abandoned by the Democratic party. So Beck-Fest to me is just more theater–nothing more.
Votes speak louder than marches. In the meantime, grab the popcorn.
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