I love that this article calls out the hypocrisy of news outlets calling the Tea Party rally "Overwhelmingly White." (http://newsbusters.org/blogs/nathan-burchfiel/2010/08/31/overwhelmingly-white-media-criticize-conservative-rallies-overwhel). The news agencies themselves, as the article points out, are overwhelmingly white. And while we're on it, maybe the reason that the crowd was overwhelmingly white is because whites make up an overwhelming majority of the population: 66% vs. 14% (White vs. Black - from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Race_and_ethnicity_in_the_United_States#Racial_makeup_of_the_U.S._population ).
I am curious (but already know the answer) of the makeup of the MLK memorial led by Al Sharpton. Interesting news that the Obama administration tried to encourage employees to attend the MLK march (http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/local/Education-secretary-urged-his-employees-to-go-to-Sharpton_s-rally-651280-101839293.html). Would this be an attempt to make the rally not "overwhelmingly black," to borrow the first word in an apparently popular euphemism used to describe the Tea Party event.
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