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How many people were on the National Mall on 9/12?
I really don't know but there is an interesting wrinkle to how some people may have mis- calculated the size of the "Birthers, Deathers and Tenthers on 9/12. I guess Glenn Beck didn't count on African-Americans holding an event called the Black Family Reunion on the National Mall at the same time.
What no one has noted is that two-thirds of the National Mall was filled by an entirely separate event on Saturday that had nothing to do with protesting the president. September 12 just happened to be the 24th Annual Black Family Reunion which ran from 7th Street all the way to the Washington Monument.To be sure, African-American, Latino, native Americans and all people marginalized from the MSM have an opinion about health care reform. Just in case anyone thinks we all hold the same opinion, I will assure you that I have verbal volleys with other African-Americans on why a robust public option is only one step in health care reform.
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Time magazine was at the Mall and completely failed to notice the National Black Family Reunion Celebration being held at the same time.
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http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1922000,00.html
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Sallie Mae had a booth at the Reunion event, and stated that the Celebration attracts over 500K over a two-three day period each year.
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http://www.pr-inside.com/sallie-mae-joins-black-family-reunion-r1477011.htm
September 14, 2009 9:36 PM | Reply | Permalink
Cool! And thanks! Wish Josh would put this up.
September 15, 2009 10:06 AM | Reply | Permalink
I did not know this Forty-niner.
September 15, 2009 11:00 AM | Reply | Permalink
i didn't see too many black families in those photos...
in fact, the whole event looked overwhelmingly white and crazy.
September 15, 2009 12:44 PM | Reply | Permalink
I wasn't aware of this either, 1849. Thanks for the tip.
Every time I read your comments or blogs, I get thinking about SF. I haven't lived there since '72 - I had an apartment on Portreo Hill with two wild and crazy gals. When they moved their boyfriends in the landlord asked us all to leave asap. The SFPD was on my case, so I decided to leave the city, and that was that. But I miss it often. My home town, after all.
September 15, 2009 2:33 PM | Reply | Permalink
It is still crazy San Francisco with astronomical rents.
Potrero Hill from what I can tell comparing pictures from the 70s against what it currently looks like has gone through a 180 degree make-over. The industrial area down the eastern slope of the hill has changed into condo row. And of course they put the 3rd street light rail on line. It is suppose to serve Bayview-Hunters point and the new Biotech (a new UCSF campus) at Mission Bay. They are really creating a whole new neighborhood from all the industrial area.
I believe the 3rd Street rail is eventually going to go under ground as San Francisco tries to figure out how pay for and build a Central Subway up to North Beach.
September 15, 2009 2:51 PM | Reply | Permalink
My guess is as good as anyone else's, so I guess:
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September 15, 2009 3:30 PM | Reply | Permalink