Remember the March on Washington? August 28, 1963. Tens of thousands of activists on the National Mall. A preacher's son from Atlanta talking about his dream for the country.
We don't need a history lesson. Even if we weren't at the March itself -- even for those like me, who were not yet born -- Dr. King's words are etched into our minds as deeply as they are inscribed in stone at the base of his memorial. The preacher's son has taken his rightful place in the pantheon of national heroes.
We don't need to watch a rerun of that fateful day. We need a sequel.
On Saturday, August 24th, the NAACP is co-hosting a sequel to the March on Washington for Jobs and Justice: the 2013 March on Washington. The march begins at 8:00 am, at the steps of the Lincoln Memorial. Join us.
If this year has shown us anything, it's that the work of the 1963 march is not yet finished. Texas and South Carolina are sprinting forward with voter ID after the Supreme Court gutted the Voting Rights Act. African American unemployment has flat lined. Our children are gunned down each and every day in senseless acts of violence. Trayvon Martin lies in the ground after one such senseless act.
At the same time, our culture of civic engagement is experiencing a renaissance. In the past month, hundreds of cities held vigils and rallies to protest the Zimmerman verdict. The nation is having a serious conversation about racial profiling for the first time since 9/11. In North Carolina, Moral Mondays has grown larger with each passing week.
We have the numbers, and we have the capacity for motivation. The question is whether we will allow ourselves to be motivated.
So join us -- NAACP, National Action Network, Realizing the Dream and others -- on August 24th. If you live within two hours of Washington, D.C., hop in a car or on a bus -- or even better, organize a bus. If you live farther away, you are still encouraged to come and be a part of history.
The 2013 March on Washington will be a people's movement. It will not be fueled by cash; it will only be energized by your decision to participate. We need you there to help us gain a critical mass of voices, and prove once again that organized people can beat organized money any time.
On this fiftieth anniversary of the March on Washington, we should celebrate our history, but it's more important that we never stop making history.
Meet us at the Lincoln Memorial. Join us on August 24th.
We also need a plan of action after the march. It's what happens after the march is what is important. Several marched, peacefully protested after the Zimmerman trial results. Have you noticed anyone doing anything since? Where is the demand that our children stop killing each other, we stop the "no snitching" policy......I could go on. No, I will not be at the march. I prefer to not to give the man any of my dollars to ride his bus, eat in his restaurant.... I'd rather use my money to help someone get an ID, helping a brother or sister fill out an application for employment. I am well aware of our history. But, I personally feel the time for the marching is over, we need to be about doing whatever it takes to move our people forward.
Saturday, August 17th 2013 at 9:21PM
Dorothy Johnson
Irma, Please take the time to really read and try to understand where I am coming from. First of yes, I did say I'd rather use my time constructively in moving our people forward. While marches and protests were occurring over the Zimmerman's verdict , a six year old child was shot in Chicago (gang violence)...was there a mention of his name no. These are the things I am talking about. When Emmitt Till was killed and two white men confessed to the killing and was not charged, our black people boycotted their family business until it went out of business. This is what I am talking about things that we need to focus on. We have right now in my city of Boston, several unsolved homicides mostly likely done by our people. Our people refuse to speak up and say what they know about these crimes but I can guarantee you, they were out protesting the Zimmerman's verdict. If yu do not see where I am coming from, that's ok. I am still not marching. I'd rather spend my time/energy really helping my people.
Sunday, August 18th 2013 at 7:43AM
Dorothy Johnson
yes,
YOU---'blackPeople' NEED to march through the urban American communites 24/7 ---with trash bags and baseball bats......
-----trash bags to clean up the streets of baggies and 40 ozs -----bats to beat the prostitutes and unlawful 'blackMales' ------bats to beat the SUSPENDED from school Kids, that are out on the streets ------bats to beat the PARENTS that do not supervise their SUSPENDED kids
WE NEED TO KNOW OUR PASS TO BE ABLE TO APPERECIATE OUR PRESENT IN ORDER TO PLAN OUR FUTURE. (SMILE)...1 IS ALWAYS BEFORE 2 NO MATTER HOW WE SLICE IT.LOL!!!(SMILE)
Thursday, April 10th 2014 at 6:47PM
ROBINSON IRMA
@DAVID, YOU KNOW MY MAIN HANGE UP IS AMERICA STILL REFUSES TO ACCEPT ADULT WHITES PUTTING 20 BULLETS INTO A 6 YEAR OLD CHILD AS NONVIOLENT AND KILLING 27 IN LES THAN 10 MINUTES BE IT IN A SCHOOL OR IN A SHOPPIN GCENTER IS NOT A TERROSITS ACT GETS ME TO NO END!!! AND I STILL REFUSE TO SUPPORT TIS FORM OT MENTAL SOCIAL NORMS AT MY PEOPLE'S EXPENSE!!!...
END OF STORY!!!(NUP!!!)
Thursday, April 10th 2014 at 6:47PM
ROBINSON IRMA
YES, KNOING OUR HISTORY HA USD IN SLAVERRY IS SO WONDERFU UNTIL SOME OF US HAVE MOVED SO FAR FORWARD UNTIL THE MARCH IN 1963 JUST SDKIPED RIGHT OVER IT IS WHY WE GOT THE VOTING RIGHTS ACT JOBS AS COLLEGE PROFESORS CEOS OR EVEN A JOB THA TPAID A LIVING WAGE BECAUSE HOUSE CLEANING AND JANITOR SURE DID NOT CUT IT OH YES AND WE DON;T EVEN GET MURDERED FOR GOING TO TH E POLLS...
BUT THAT WAS IN THE LASDT CENTURY NOT IN 2014 VOTING IS NOT GOING TO BE A PROBLEM...NO HANGING FOR GOING TO THE POLL AS THERE WILL BE NONE TO GO TO WHEN YOU COME OUT OF CHURCH ON SUNDAY, NONEOPEN AFTER YOU GET OFFOF WORK THAT IS IF YOU ARE LUCKY ENOUGH TOHAVE A JOB, GOOD LUCK IF YOU USE TO HAVE A POLL IN YOUR COMMUNITY (NUP/SMILE) ...
IT IS SUCH A SHAME BUT THA TIS TH EPURPOSE OF MIND CONTROL...THE MARCH ARENOT ABOUT ONE THING AND NOT BEING ABLE TO VOTE IS NOT JUST ABOUT AN ID CARD...BECAUSE GOD KNOWS IF IT WAS ABOUT US NOT HAVING IDS AS WHAT GETS DEMOCRATS OR REPUBLICANS INTO OFFICE THEN JFK. FDR WOULD NEVER HAVE BEN PRESIDENT...OUR VOTING SYSTEM WAS A ONE ONLY VOTING SYSTEM BEFORE WE GOT JFK THE FIRSDT NON WHITE CHRISTIAN MALE INTO THE WHITE ONLY CHRISTIAN MALE UNTIL THAT TIME...
WE HAVE GOT TO DO BETTER THAN TO JUST LIMIT OUR THINKING ABILITIES TO SKIN COLOR, RELIGION, ECT THAT PREVENTS US FROM TAKING OFF THOSE BLINDERS KEEPING US FROM SEEING THE 'BIG PICTURE' (SMILE)
WE HAVE 50 STATES AND PLACES LIKE TERRATORYS THAT CAN VOTE...AND THE MARCH IN AZ. WAS MORE ABOUT TRYING TO TACH THE STATE THEY WERE GOING TO GO BANKRUPT IF THEY KEPT ASKING FOR BIRTH CERTIFICS AND SUCH SOME NATIONS STATE VOTE IN AMERICA AND ARE NOT STATES DON'T EVEN REQUIRE A VISA TO ENTER AND THAT IS REALLY WHAT TOE MARCHES WERE ABOUT AND ANOTHER THING MIND CONTROL SOES IS TO TEACH US THAT IN AMERICA TO VOTE YOU MUST SHOW AN ID WHEN IN A STATE LIKE CA. IF YOU ASK FOR AN ID AT A POLL YOU MAY JUST END UP INCOURT ON A FELONY AS IT IS ILLEGAL HERE AS WELL AS MANY OTHER STATES...
EDUCATE!!!EDUCATE!!!EDUCATE!!! (SMILE)
Thursday, April 10th 2014 at 6:47PM
ROBINSON IRMA
I WILL NOT BE THERE IN PERSON THIS TIME BUT SO, SO MANY LIKE ME WILL BE THERE I AM SO GRATEFUL TO BE ABLE TO SAY WHEN I SAY THE ,"BEEN THERE DONE THAT"...
WHICH MEANS THERE WERE THERE TO HEAR DR. KING SPEAK ON HIS DREAM THAT WE COUNLD JOIN TOGATHER ON THAT MALL WITH PEOPLES FROM EVERY NATION ON THE PLANET THERE AS WELL AS PEOPE OF EVERY SKIN COLOR, CREED, GENDER, POLITICAL LEANINGS,ECT...
ALL IN ONE SPOT AND ALL IN TOTAL UNITY AND LOVE AND RESPECT WILL BE STANDING THERE KNOWING DR. KINGS DREAM IS SILL UNFOLDING BECAUSE AS DR. KING SPOKE AS THE LED SPEAKER BEFORE THAT 1963 PHENOMNA THE LEAD SPEAKER WILL BE OUR PRESIDENT OF TH EUNITED STATES OF AMERICA TALKING TO US AMERICANS THAT TOSE JOBS WE HAVE BEEN PRAYING FOR ARE STILL ON THE WAY AS A RESULT OF THE MARCH NOW AS THEN SAYS THIS IS WHY AMERICA EXIST IN THE FIRST PLACE! NOW IN TOTAL UNITY WE SHALL ACTED LIKE A UNITED STATES OF AMERICA!!!(S-M-I-L-E)
AMERICA WILL GET A GOOD LOOK AT WHAT UNITY LOOKS LIKE AND FEELS LIKE AND IT FEELS SO, SO GOOD...SO I REPEAT... BEEN THERE, DONE THAT..."I NEVER TOUGH I WOULD LIVE TO SEE THIS DAY" IS AN AMERICAN MOVER AND SHAKER AND SO GOOD LIKE THE 1963 MARCH AND A SECOND TERM FOR BHO...AND IF THAT IS WHAT IS CALLED MOVING BACKWARD THEN AMERICA IS SAYING...FULL SPEAD AHEAD!!! ...
THE EARTH IS NOT FLAT...
(OTFL)(SMILE)
Thursday, April 10th 2014 at 6:47PM
ROBINSON IRMA
@DOROTHY IS THERE ANY WAY YOU CAN FIND IN FULL THE SPEECHES OF BOTH OUR PRESIDENT AND ERIC HOLDER IN REGARDS TO THE OUT COME OF THE ZIMMERMAN VERDICT...THE OCCUPATION OF TH E OFFICE OF THE GOVERNOR OF FL. SINCE THEN...MORAL MONDAYS IN N.C. THE CONVENTIONS IN FL AFTER THE VERDICT FROM NATIONAL NAACP TO THE AMERICAN LAWERS HOLDING THEIR CONVENTION THERE IN FL. TH EBOY COTT AND THE MONEYIT HAS COST FL. SINCE THE ZIMMERMAN VERDICT...
AND, ACTUALLY THE MOST IMPOLRTANT THING IS TAT TRAVON MARTIN DID NOT DIE IN VAIN...NOW COUNTLESS FAMILIES IN FL. OF ALL RACESA ND CREEDS CAN GET THE INVESTIGATIONS OF THIER LOVES ONE ESPEIALL THE ONE THAT STANDS OUT O TME IT THE FIRST TOE STAND YOUR GROUND CASES...THREE PEOLE WER SHOT AND KILLED BECAUSE THEY UPSET A PERSON'S WAY TO THE BEACH AND THE SECOND THE PERSON DIDE FROM GUN SHOT TO THE BACK ON HIS HEAD...CAN NOT BE INVESTIGATED ACCORDING TO ERIC HOLDER AND THE FBI AND OUR PRESIDENT. (SMILE)
Thursday, April 10th 2014 at 6:47PM
ROBINSON IRMA
OF COURSE I READ A FULLY UNDERSTUDF EXACTLY WYAT YOU SAID AND WHAT YOU MEANT AND WHY I UT WHAT I SAID IN THE FORM OF A QUESTION. I AM ALWYAS INTO THERE ARE NOT EVER ONELY ONE SIDE OF A STORY. EACH PERSON CAN ONLY LIVE THEIR OWN LIVES AND WHY I DID NOT SAY YOU DID NOT NEED TO DO WHAT YOU SAW AS BES TO NOT MARCH NOR IT WAS NOT GOOD FOR ANYONE TO MARCH...AND WHY I SAY HISTORY IS LIVING AS TI IS MADE EACH MOMENT.(SMILE)
Thursday, April 10th 2014 at 6:47PM
ROBINSON IRMA
@DOROTHY, PLLEASE DON'T GET ME WRONG WHEN I SAY IN CHICAGO IT IS ABOUT GANGS/DRUGS/ TURF...AND YES GANGS DO DOPROFILINGS AND M POINT IS IN CHICAGO HOW MANY AUTOMATIC RIFLES, HOW MANY RUN ON GUNS CAUSING THEM TO SELL OUT BECAUSE A GANG MEMBER SHOT AND CHILD? IS WHERE I AM COMING FROM...NOT RIGHT OR WRONG BUT EQUALITY...DID TH EPERSON IN CHICAGO SAY THEY WERE STANDING THEIR GROUND, THE CHILD DID SOMETING TO MAKE THAT PERSON SUSPECIOUS ENOUGH TO FOLLOW THEM...GOHOME AND GET THEIR MOMS AUTOMATIC RIFLE?
OR IS CHICAGO JUST THROWN OUT THERE AS RED MEAT BECAUSE BLACKS DON'T KILL EACHOTHER IN YOUR STATE, MY STATE OR MY CITY...OOPS WAS CHICAGO NOT KILLING EACH OTHER BEFORE WE GOT A BLACK PRESIDENT OR AFTER...
ME MY SISTER I TAKE ALL OF THIS INTO CONSIDERATION...
I LIKE TO DIALOGUE DISPITE I REALIZE THE DEFINITIN OF DIALOGUE HOLDING A CONVERSATION ON DIFFERENT RESOURCES IS BETTER SEEN AS 'AN ATTACK' MAKES BETTER RED MEAT!!! (NUP)
EQUALITY TO ME MEANS PEOPLE HAVE THE RIGHT TO MARCH, T ONOT MARCH... PEOPLE HAVE THE RIGHT TO SAY ONLY BLACKS KILL BLACKS...BLACKS ARE BORN KILLERS WHILE AT THE SAME TIME SAYING BLACKS WERE MADE IN THE IMAGE OF GOD OR NOT...EACH PERSON IS AN INDIVIDUAL...OR N-O-T IS ALSO WHAT I SEE AS 'EQUALITY' (SMILE)
Thursday, April 10th 2014 at 6:47PM
ROBINSON IRMA
...NOW THAT I HAVE CALMED DOWN SOME WHAT... HERE IS THE PURPOSE OF THE 'RED MEAT'... IRMA SHOULD KNOW BETTER SINCE SHE KNOWS PUTTING 30 BULLETS INTO A 6 YEAR OLD SHE BRINGS UP BECAUSE 30 BULLETS WER E MORE THAN THE SHOOTER PU TINTO THE BODIES OF THE OTHER 20+ CHILDREN IN LESS THAN 10 MINUTES WHEN SHE KNOWS KILLING ONE CHILD IN CHICAGO IS MUCH, MUCH WORST THAN THAT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! (N..........................U............................P!!!)...
YES TO OFFER DIFFERENT RESOURCES IS AN ATTACK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!...
Thursday, April 10th 2014 at 6:47PM
ROBINSON IRMA
@ROBERT, I SHALL NOW REPEAT...THERE WILL BE MORE PEOPLE THERE WHO WORSHIP THE SAME ALLAH YOU DO THAN MADE TI TO MECA IN 2013...YOUR WOMEN / MEN ALSO SEEK HUMAN RIGHTS TO BE TREATED WITH EQUALITY AS WELL. (S-M-I-L-E)
Thursday, April 10th 2014 at 6:47PM
ROBINSON IRMA
@DOROTHY PLEASE READ THE TRUE AND ACTUAL HISTORY OF ROSA PARKS IN RELATIONSAHOP TO EMMIT TILL, I BEG YOU TO DO SO THEN YOU WILL GET THE VOICE OF OUR COMMUNITY AS THE ACTUAL ACTIVE PEOPLE ACTING ON GETTING JUSTICE FOR EMMIT TILL...IF YOU WATCH OPRHA'S INTERVIEW WITH ANDERSON COOPER NOT ONLY WAS EMMIT TILL A PART OF IT WE HEAR ABOUT IT ON A REGULAR BASIS WE ONLY NEED TOLEARN TO BE ABLE TO REACGIZE IT WHEN WE HEAR IT BEING TALKED ABOUT EVEN IN 2013. (SMILE)
YES MY SISTER AS IT WAS A MAJOR PART OF THE NEED TO CALL THE MARCH IN1963!!!
Thursday, April 10th 2014 at 6:47PM
ROBINSON IRMA
...WHEN WE SAY THE STRUGGLE CONITNUES WE SPEAK OF EMMIT TILL AS WELL AS TRAVONMARTIN AND THE CHILD KILLED IN CHICHAGO OR ANY PLACE ON THEPLANET AS EQUAL JUSTICE AND THE FOGHT FOR IS IS FALSLY BELIEVED TO BE TIED TO ONLY RACE, RELIGION, ECT (THESE TEND TO NOT GET BEYOND HATE, FEAR, DIVISION, DISREPECT WHEN OUR HISTORY / MARCHES ARE TIED TO THE WHOLE HUMAN RACE. (NUP/SMILE)
Thursday, April 10th 2014 at 6:47PM
ROBINSON IRMA
I AM FROM JACKSONVILLE, N.C. AND BLACK PEOPE HAVE BEEN LESS HARMED THEN IN MODERN TIME THAN IN BOSTON...LETS SEE IT WAS OT TOOLONG AGO THEY WERE BURNING BLACKS ALIVE THERE...IN AN DOUT SIDE TO HOMES...DID WE WORK ON IT HER IN CA. YOU DAMNED RIGHT WE DID...ONLY MOST DEPEND ON TH EMEDIA FOR BLACK HISTORY!!!IS MY MAIN POINT IT SOESNOT MATTER TO BE IN TH EMARCH ANS THE WORK FOR THE MARCH HAS BEEN GOING ON FOR OVER A YEAR...OOPS NO MEDIA REPORTS, RIGHT AND MOST OF TH EPEOPLE BEIND THE SECENE WILL OT BE TAKING PART IN THE MARCH SOMEON MUST GET THE WORK SHOOPS SET UP, ECT...NOT ONE INTEREST IN AMRCHING JUST FOCUSED ONDOING THEIR PART TO HOEP GET US MUCH NEEDED JOBS AND ATTENTION TO THE NED FO RJOBS AGAIN MY POINT AS I AM NEVER OUT TO DO ANYTHING BUT TO DIALOGUE AND BE ONE MORE RESOURCE! (SMILE)
Thursday, April 10th 2014 at 6:47PM
ROBINSON IRMA
