Finally! Decent Coverage of Million More March - Al Jazeera

African-Americans protest inequality

The event was organised by a broad coalition of groups

Thousands of African-Americans, young and old, have rallied in Washington, frustrated with lingering inequalities in the United States.

"This is the start of getting black people together to get organisation to get some change," said Amon Ra, 50, an Ohio state employee who on Saturday drove more than 10 hours with his son to attend the "Millions More Movement" event, a decade after the "Million Man March" to empower black men in the United States.

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Really? Someone was there besides Farrakhan? It wasn't ALL Nation of Islam? Other groups? Citizens who drove hours? NOOOOOOOOO!

Until others took it over for football and NASCAR. Satellite.

frustration that most of the DU threads on the MMM wound up sinking into debates about Farrakhan and National of Islam. Also because I doubt very much that US coverage of the same event will be nearly as balanced.

by some of the posts referencing this march today. Malcolm X was my first hero, and the civil-rights movement had a huge impact on my psyche. It's hurtful that so many find it so easy to condemn anothers words or philosopy's without investigation into their meaning or context.

mainstream, corporate media covers 'their' events in a hackneyed, dismissive manner -- and yet these same people won't stop and consider that corporate media has colored their views of 'other peoples' events and trashes those events in the same way.

Yesterday felt like 'let's all pile on Farrakhan' -- he is an easy target to beat up on -- and hardly anyone here reflected on the other speakers, on the 100,000's of CITIZENS who attended and WHY.

If felt like this about DU yesterday: :puke: :grr: :puke:

We are here to expand each others' minds, so I will carry on, but if you can suggest another political website with discussions that are more open about this subject, please let me know. I come to DU, in part, to be supported -- not just to expend effort trying to expand minds.

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