That Fox News Channel talk show host Glenn Beck would invite party groups to rally on this day — at that location — has traditional civil rights groups upset. Tea Party-affiliated groups have been accused of allowing racist images and racist behavior at past rallies.
A separate rally commemorating King’s speech has been planned.
“No one day was more important than that day 47 years ago, when the world stood still and heard the dream eloquently spoken by Dr. King,” reads a flier issued by the Rev. Al Sharpton’s National Action Network, host of the counter-rally.
But that anniversary date shouldn’t make the Lincoln Memorial off-limits, said Terry Olson, Columbia Tea Party chairman.
http://www.thestate.com/2010/08/25/1432192/tea-partyers-and-mlk-marchers.html
A separate rally commemorating King’s speech has been planned.
“No one day was more important than that day 47 years ago, when the world stood still and heard the dream eloquently spoken by Dr. King,” reads a flier issued by the Rev. Al Sharpton’s National Action Network, host of the counter-rally.
But that anniversary date shouldn’t make the Lincoln Memorial off-limits, said Terry Olson, Columbia Tea Party chairman.
http://www.thestate.com/2010/08/25/1432192/tea-partyers-and-mlk-marchers.html