Actually Alveda King, Martin Luther King, Jr.'s niece, will be speaking at/attending the Glen Beck event at the Lincoln Memorial. She fully supports the theme of "Faith, Hope and Charity" to restore honor to our county and thinks her uncle and father would too.

What's the problem here? If they want to rally for two different reasons, why can't two different rallies go to two different places to do this? Did someone actually want to attend both??

Why the anger?

I'm a little confused. What are they upset about. Dr. King fought for equality and freedom. I highly doubt he would be upset with Glenn Beck for haviung an event where he gave a speech. Glenn beck isn't even in the same league as Dr. King so who cares what he does. Let him have his rally. The Lincoln Memorial is a public place, it doesn't belong to any of us, it belongs to all of us - whether you support the views of someone or not.

I didn't know black people held a monopoly of Dr. King's teaching and ideals. Being mad at people celebrating his message, regardless of the color of their skin, is a slap in the face of everything MLK stood for.

They obviously have a problem with white people. Typical.

Beck's instruction to his devotees to walk out of their church if it preaches social justice would have required everyone to "walk out" of King's famous "I Have a Dream" speech. Beck's beliefs are an affront to King's, which is why many people are upset that he wants to "take back the country" and "reclaim the civil rights movement," both of which sound ridiculous to me.

It's kind of like people complaining about the mosque near Ground Zero in New York. A number of people see Beck at the Lincoln Memorial on the anniversary of MLK's speech as inappropriate. Perfectly legal, just tacky.

Will Carl O. snowden be driving to the event, or does he have a designated driver?

If you people don't understand what is offensive about someone who is as divisive as Beck trying to put on the mantle of MLK, then you are completely in denial.

Maybe you, like Beck and Palin, think we live in a 'post-racial' society. To cure yourself of this, go visit any comments section for any article on a black man (including our president) on yahoo news. Check it out. Beck fuels that, so does Palin, with their 'us poor white people' acti.

‘Give us the ballot box and we’ll solve our problems.’

Been solving Baltimore City problems for years....right?

Dr. Alveda King and Marcus Luttrell will also speak. Dr. Alveda King is the niece of Martin Luther King, Jr. and daughter of the late civil rights activist Rev. A. D. King, Martin Luther King's younger brother. Alfred Daniel Williams King (known as A.D.) was arrested with his older brother and 70 others while participating in the October, 1960 lunch counter sit-in in Atlanta. On 11 May 1963, A.D. King’s family home was bombed....
“When I join Beck and all gathered at the Lincoln Memorial this weekend, I will talk about my Uncle Martin and the America he envisioned. I will talk about honor and character and sacrifice. I will be joined by those who represent the diversity of the human race. On Saturday, Uncle Martin’s dream of personhood and human dignity will resound across America. And the Park Police should consider themselves forewarned: As we stand in the symbolic shadow of the great American who signed the Emancipation Proclamation, we just might sing.” Dr. Alveda King

Marcus Luttrell is a former Petty Officer First Class and United States Navy SEAL, He received the Navy Cross for his actions in 2005 facing Taliban fighters during Operation Red Wings. In 2010, Luttrell established the Lone Survivor Foundation (SOWF). The foundation's mission is to "Go to extraordinary lengths to Welcome Home, Empower and Restore American Wounded Warriors, their Families and Surviving Families” …
(Lone Survivor Foundation )SOWF, which has only eight staff members, is happily inundated thanks to Glenn Beck's promotional efforts. The group typically raises money through banquet dinners – the most one of these events has ever raised is $1 million, which caused the SOWF staff to “do a little happy dance,” according to Edie Rosenthal, a retired Navy lieutenant commander and spokeswoman for the group. Since Glenn Beck has started talking about the group on his radio and television shows in advance of the 8/28 rally, some $5 million in donations have poured in. “We've never had an event that cost this much either,” says Rosenthal. “I was at the Lincoln Memorial just looking at the number of port-a-potties and the screens that are being set up.”

How many black people do you think is really show up beck's sugar-coated racist event not to many . Dr. King not have showed up for beck or the tea party with their sugar-coated racist hate speech with Sarah Paline leading the charge, Only decent white people would go to the king event, I sure the members of the tea-party march in the 60's and supported civil rights , they would rather time the hands of time back and oppress.

Don't be a lateral thinker. Mr. Beck, 1) has the right to speak, just as anyone else speaking at AACC or the Memorial. 2) This is not a competition, nor is it a political speech; and 3) Has any one of you really listened to Mr. Beck, especially regarding his desire to speak at this event. If your anser to 3 is no, maybe you should before you judge.

Renfro: There is absolutely nothing divisive about Reverend Al Sharpton?

What you commie American hating liberals that think its OK to build a mosque at ground zero but can't see having a American tell the truth About your BOY Obama and crew huh? No wonder your Democratic party is going to get wiped out this NOV! GO BECK!

Leave it to the Sunrag to print this garbabe!

@bbp;
Oh the pain you must feel being forced to sit at the back of the bus or being denied counter service.

Leave it to the Sunrag to print this garbage. Another worthless article!

@FHT and BBP: you apparently don't know Glenn Beck very well. This is akin to a very minor nazi holding a gathering at Auschwitz to say that, if she were still alive, Anne Frank would be supporting his positions.

I loev how these hypocritical liberals get bent out of shape over Beck hosting a rally at the Lincoln Memorial, the same place where Dr. King delivered his historic speech. Yet these same people can't understand why so many Americans are upset about a Mosque being built at Ground Zero. What a bunch of hypocrites!

Since when do the MLK gang OWN the day of 8-28 and when did they reserve in perpetuity the Lincoln Memorial for that day?

kwolf443 is now channeling MLK!
She KNOWS what he would do today!

ALL HAIL kwolf443!

Difference between Beck and MLK is well.....everything. MLK didn't pimp himself out and try to strike fear and anger into the general population while stating the president hated black people. Beck's 15 minutes of fame are up and I would like to know if those attending Beck's rally would have stood with King during his march 47 years ago in Washington.

@Anonymous
The MLK gang? Really? Audio of the "I Have a Dream" speech is played twice daily at the Lincoln Memorial, that's how formative it is in most of our experiences as Americans.

I would be curious as to how many of those condemning this gathering by Beck on the Mall have ever actually LISTENED to him. He is not racist nor divisive. This rally is not about politics, but about Faith, Hope and Charity. Palin will speak not as a politician, but as a mother of a soldier. Beck constantly promotes Dr. King's concerns about the importance of content of character as opposed to color of skin.

Try listening before you condemn. As to Sharpton and his ilk: he seeks power and attention, and has done nothing to improve the lot of blacks in this Nation. He likes to see them enslaved to the Federal government. That is the basis of so-called "social justice".

Read history. Question what you see and hear. Don't be an idiot!

The fact that it's even socially accepted to use the words "National Association for Advancement Against Colored People" makes it racist. What if I went around calling all the blacks "colored People?" I thought that went away with my grandparents! That's how far they have come.....nowhere!

Former Peace Corps volunteer, social worker, and how public school teacher....former liberal who backed it with action. It's things (too many) like this that drove me away from supporting liberal causes....to many petulant, selfish, my way, crybabies....they just strike me as power trippin' children.....

I'm black and pretty liberal. I don't have a problem With when and where Glen Beck speaks. If you don't like Beck, don't pay him any attention and stop supporting the businesses who sponsor his programs. I have more of a problem with these comments and the supposed "reverse racism" white folks are claiming. Black people have a right to feel like they feel. There is nothing post racial about this country. What we need to do is form our own party and focus on real issues in our communities. America is very racial and we are all racist. Even you, reader.

I'm glad Glenn Beck shares MLK's concerns about civil rights, but somehow I doubt he shares much else in the way of MLK's political outlook.

Sarah Palin certainly seems to be enjoyin' her post-resignation career, lappin' up the limelight at every turn, co-optin' this and that political event.

There sure are far more media outlets down here in the lower 48, dontcha know.

Does Queen Mama Grizzly's current jetset lifestyle agree with her more than her days spent bogged down with the dreary matters involved with governin'? You betcha!

Dale - The only people that keep this racism ging are the Al Sharptons/Jessie Jacksons of the world. This is their livelihood. They thrive on attention because their parents didn't give them any, I guess. You are correct black people have the right to feel the way they feel and so do the whites but we don't have a group called NAAWP. Thats just as bad as having clan speak. All thisneeds to go away so we can all move forward in life. I'm a native american and it wasn't any better for my ancestors; the difference is that you and I weren't there so why carry the hatred on and on.

@Steve:

Is anyone actively trying to prevent Glenn Beck's Million Moran March? Is anyone trying to move Beckstock and cartoon show for slow adults to another location? No. His freedom of speech is protected as equally as anyone's freedom of religion.
You'll need something better than random, context-free anecdotes to prove librulz are hypocrites in this case.

More of the reverse racism from the black community directed at the white conservative/libertarian community. Our black population must finally get the chip off their shoulder and stop with the hypersensitivity. It is getting to the point where if a white person disagrees with a black person, the white person is a racist.

@City Redux: Seriously? You have no idea what you're talking about -- you really don't. You are basing your views on assumptions or what you have heard on MSNBC. Try looking into it a little before you say stupid things. Thanks.

I find the title of this article to be insulting and it proves that self separation within our society is what continues to divide this country. Everything is not drawn along racial lines, this is America. We as Americans should be angry at the direction in which this country is headed. This should be viewed as a day of unity among all Americans, listen to what the people have to say at both rallies and draw your own conclusions and keep it about all Americans of all races.

So the blacks are upset that they have to share the stage with right thinking Americans. To bad, so sad. Go cry to people who care.

Glenn Beck embodies more of what the great Dr. King stood for than Al Sharpton or Jesse Jackson. If Dr. King said something akin to give us the ballot box and we'll solve our own problems, then the AA community by and large hasn't done a good job. Many continue to live in poverty; slaves to those whom they elect. Countless dollars have been spent to what benefit. I don't advocate cessation of certain programs, but there must be a better way. Vote conservative not necessarily Republican!

Yes, seriously, FHT. I've been pretty much tuned into every word between Mr. Beck and Jim Wallis. For Beck to invoke MLK in any way is contrary to reality. Their published thoughts could not be farther apart. The only reason anyone pays attention to intellectual lightweights like Beck & Palin is to endorse their own selfishness and fear.

So the blacks are upset that they have to share the stage with right thinking Americans. To bad, so sad. Go cry to people who care.

Posted by: White Feather | August 27, 2010 5:29 PM

I don't know who you think "the blacks" are, but be careful not to generalize an entire race's feelings based on one reporter's account of how "some blacks" feel.

The Sun is regarded by some "right thinking Americans" as a liberal rag, yet that doesn't stop some from taking its content and running with it when it suits their purposes.

Bob McGeehan, you beat me to it. Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson Jr. do not represent what MLK believed in. King believed in racial equality, while Sharpton and Jackson believe in/practice black supremacy.
Think about this: Jackson and Sharpton are both members of the CBC (a.k.a. Congressional Black Caucus), consider if Rep. Kratovil, or even worse some Republican, decided to make a CCC (Congressional Caucasian Caucus). All of the members of the CBC would scream RACISTTTTTTTTTTTT like they always do and the MSM would pick it up and broadcast it as news. Also the CBC doesn't even truly represent African Americans.
"Less than 10 percent of the (Congressional Black Caucus) voted to ban partial-birth abortion in 2003, even though a majority of blacks support the ban. A majority of blacks oppose racial quotas and support school choice, but the CBC claims to speak for them when taking the opposite positions." -Jonah Goldberg

QUOTE OF THE DAY:
“I’m wondering if those who support that so-called Tea Party Movement really know where Republicans are leading them? It seems like the Tea Party rank & file are being USED by a bunch of vain, self-serving, evil, power mad, greed stricken, K-Street Con Artists. Paid for by wealthy silver spoon trust fund babies who want to turn the American PEOPLE into peasants. The scum of the earth who hide their hideous faces by using Michele Bachmann and Sarah Palin as spokespersons. SUCKERS!

READ: (“Covert Operations, the Billionaire Koch Brothers who are waging war against Obama” by Jane Mayer in the New Yorker

Just look at their agenda items. It‘s like wet dream for Ken Lay, Tom Delay, Newt Gingrich or Jack Abramoff:
1) Repeal Health Insurance Reform
2) Privatize Social Security or abolish it.
3) End Medicare
4) Extend Bush Tax Cuts for wealthy and Big Oil
5) Repeal Wall Street reform
6) Protect all those responsible for Gulf oil disaster and future environmental catastrophes
7) Abolish or cut funding to Department of Education
8) Abolish Dept. of Energy
9) Abolish Environmental Protection Agency
10) Repeal 17th Amendment
11) Rewrite Bible and school textbooks,
12) Replace JESUS with Glenn Beck, Frank Church with Joe McCarthy…
13) After USA is destroyed by Republican Party low grade thought processes, BLAME Democrats/Liberals
14) be flunkies, soldiers and slaves for silver spoon trust fund babies like George W. Bush, Saudi Prince Bandar and the Koch Bros.

REALITY NOW! What leadership, character or morals have Republicans displayed since Obama was sworn in? NO solutions, NO rational plans, clear agendas or common sense policy… JUST Sarah Palin/Glenn Beck groupies parroting talking points! (I heard rumors someone in the Palin entourage is smuggling meth/coke on the tour charter flights)

COME ON, are you right-wing wackos #*~/‘n INSANE? Am I missing something here but didn’t Conservatives just have 8 YEARS of Bush/Cheney and Republican controlled Congress (1994-2006) to put their warped ideology into practice? AND IT ALMOST DESTROYED THE GREATEST NATION ON EARTH!

The American PEOPLE must ORGANIZE… NOW, to get rid of the Corporate Conservative propagandists before they work the rightwing nutcases into a murderous, Civil War type frenzy. Limbaugh, Beck, Krystol, Hannity, Palin, etc must be stopped because there’s too many stupid, uneducated weak-minded Americans who fall for their crazy BS!

Conservative clones/spokespersons/pundits to use hate speech, racist attitudes, bold-faced lies, fear mongering, psychological warfare, warped interpretations of the Bible and other textbook forms of bias persuasion to create a cult of right-wing dolts.

And don’t give me that line about Conservatives deserve the rights or freedoms to spread their vile propaganda. THEY’RE DESTROYING THE NATION! The rich guys who own the news media might as well give national broadcast air time to Al Qaeda… I mean for all the BAD Republicans have done for the last 3 decades+.

Waste, fraud, abuse, scandal, sexual deviancy, corruption, lies, incompetence, job outsourcing, off-shore tax evasion, union busting, reckless economics, welfare for the rich, deregulation, war profiteering, Constitutional violations AND a Corporate Crime Wave of epic proportions…. The WORST looting of a nation’s wealth and resources in the history of MANKIND!

Where was the Tea Party anger THEN? Ya #*~/’n ignorant hypocrites.

But you want Democrats/Progressives to believe if only Conservatism had one more chance it can work? The very definition of insanity, isn’t IT? Over and over AGAIN! Just separate yourselves from Bush/Cheney… bull$#!~ MISINFORMED people into believing they’re part of a NEW Conservative Movement.

In OTHER WORDS Republican Party talking points are based on the ignorance of their constituents. They revise history and LIE because they CAN… because morons who vote for Republicans DON’T KNOW THEIR OWN HISTORY! This ain’t NO Tea Party… it’s a damn CLASS WAR!

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Beck will have his next rally at the Alamo, and the one after that at the scene of Custer's last stand.. He says he wants "to take the country back " merican Indians.

Beck will have his next rally at the Alamo, and the one after that at the scene of Custer's last stand.. He says he wants "to take the country back " American Indians.