Million$ More Marche$ On

Just out of curiosity, I checked C-SPAN today to see how many people were actually at the Mall.
Yeah, millions failed to show. I'd say almost thousands.

I thought it was kind of cute how they claim to be "Islam", and yet the MINISTER Donna Farrakhan yelled at all those Islamic men for 10 minutes or so before poppa Louie came on. I sat and pondered how long it would have taken them to drag her off the stage and stone her in all those hardline countries that Louie and his flunkies have the warm fuzzies for...

The reparations part was too rich. They butchered a Malcom X quote, and then whined about how they were owed for 300 years of slavery. You show me someone who weathered being a slave, and then hook them up with someone who owned a slave, and I'll sign my name on the petition.

P.S. Oh, and I would be remiss not to mention Erika Badu in her silly hat standing there for 2 or 3 minutes stretches trying to think of something to say. Oh, and also the fact that Farrakhan actually bumped people off the roster a few minutes later in fear that the sun would go down before he was able to speak.

At least one of the speakers he pre-empted was a big reparations idiot...

Oh, and also the fact that Farrakhan actually bumped people off the roster a few minutes later

Well, after X, he should be pretty good at bumping people off by now.......

Congrats on being featured!

Since the million man march, no one is willing to give estimates on crowds (because of Calypso Louie's Million Man Math), but I would hazard a guess of about 200k tops.

Researching this article showed me some pictures from the original MMM, and there seemed to be a lot of people there. I remember the crowd-counting software: estimated 500,000. But that was an unverifiable statement ten years later - thanks for nothin', Google!
In fact, as I mentioned earlier, I found no articles on how under-attended it was, how playa-hatin' it was, or how much of a disappointment it was. The only thing I found was a single article that was for the March, but against Farrakhan as a bigot and spiritual charlatan.
No articles contradicting the organizers' claims of a massive spiritual celebration, the historical significance of it all. Only lovey-dovey, smoke-and-mirrors pieces.

Talk about revisionist history.

http://answering-islam.org.uk/NoI/noi2.html

For anyone who's interested, you can read about the beliefs of the Nation Of Islam there^^

It's pretty trippy.  As in I think that Elijah Muhammed might have got into some peyote or had an acid habit when he wrote all this stuff.  Either that or he was mentally ill and delusional.

Y'know, I read a book on comparative religions that was quite complimentary of Islam.

Afterwards, His father Joseph (not Joseph of Arimathea) "mortgaged all of his little land and embalmed Jesus in a liquid in a glass tube. As long as the air does not get to him, he will be there just as he was the day he was killed two thousand years ago. He is buried in Jerusalem."[26] Any talk about Jesus' resurrection is dismissed by Elijah Muhammad as ignorant foolishness.

Nope, not ringing a bell. I don't remember the above quote from my textbook.