Mr. “Real American”, your comments really are rather tedious. The problem is that you are asking the wrong people. Ask the people that did not attend why they didn’t. Anyone who wanted to come would have been welcome. Unlike the stereotype that the media has been trying to create about conservative rallies, be they Tea Party or Restoring Honor or others, they are not hate-fests and there is never any violence unless it is instigated by others (I’d love for you to be able to provide a single example). The crowds are pleasant, welcoming, they clean up after themselves, and any outside whacko-agitators are quickly identified and ostracized.
It is pretty obvious that you seem to think that a lack of minority attendees somehow invalidates the rally. Why do you think that? I suspect that many blacks considered the rally to be anti-Obama, even though it was never billed as such. The fact is that leading up to the rally the media treated it as likely to be at least somewhat political and Tea Party connected. Given Obama’s over 90% approval rating among blacks, I suspect that many / most blacks would be inclined to stay away. Oh, and why was Al Sharpton’s rally “mostly black”? Is “mostly black” good or bad? Please explain your answer and provide specific examples to back it up.
Of course, harping on the whiteness (or the lack thereof) of any crowd, rally, meeting, or whatever, is simply a means of trying to denigrate it when you have no arguments of substance. Why don’t you explain to the rest of us just what is was about the rally that was bad? What was said that you find objectionable? What was said that a black or other minority would object to but a white person would not? I’m not going to hold my breath waiting for a response.
By the way, I was amused to see a photo of President Obama meeting with some 30 plus other people seated or standing around a large table. It was captioned ‘President Obama meets with largely white group’. The point is, that many, many rallies and demonstrations are largely white, but since they are left / liberal rallies, the media and others such as yourself tend to ignore that inconvenient truth. Anti-war and environmental rallies come immediately to mind. And of course those rallies tend to be filled with quite a bit of hateful speech and violence, to say nothing of leaving a major clean-up task behind. I’ll be happy to provide book, chapter and verse. But you first.
