This is a short diary, but an idea that I'd like to propose to the Daily Kos community in the wake of the odious Beckapalooza and it's collection of 80,000 bored white people yesterday.
Why have we liberals not organized a major march/event on Washington in the past few years?
When the Iraq War fraud was ramping up, Americans marched by the hundreds of thousands against the war, only to be ignored by the Fox News led "patriotic" American news media that decided dissent was un-American from 2002-2006.
When Mexicans were being demonized, the largest march in Los Angeles history took place in 2006 for immigration rights, over 500,000 people!
Yet since Obama got elected, where have we been?
I call for a march on Washington called The Million American March.
This march would be based on three principles of multiculturalism that form the entire backbone of the modern Democratic Party:
- We are ALL Americans -- black, white, gay, straight, Jewish, Muslim, Latino, Arab, Asian, African
- We are the "real" America, not just Christians -- athiests, Jews, Muslims and Christians together, free to worship or not worship.
- The Republican Party is a fraud -- it speaks of divisiveness, demonization and racism -- this is NOT America.
By bringing together 1 million Americans of all races, religions, creeds, colors, sexual orientation, we will remind the country what the REAL America looks like -- a gorgeous mosaic that comes together.
We will remind America what REAL patriotism looks like -- the celebration of difference rather than the demonization of it.
I call upon all liberal outfits to join together to set a date and create OUR march on Washington:
* Daily Kos
* The Huffington Post
* MoveOn.org
* MSNBC's Maddow, Schultz and Olbermann
* Firedoglake
* Brave New Films
* Blue America
* The Coffee Party
* The Other 98%
Think about it, a total one day Washington march celebrating the diversity and inclusiveness of the Democratic Party and liberalism under the mark of real patriotism, not that fake dress-up bullshit that frauds like Sarah Palin practice in which adding "USA" to your name makes you a patriot.
WE are the real America.
Not just the white, Christian, homophobic and racist collection of thugs that currently call themselves "Republicans" these days.
Why can't we mobilize a one day march? Remind America that we are the REAL America, the America of the future, the America that is not simply white and Christian and afraid of gay people or atheists of Muslims.
We would feature Imams and gay speakers. Civil Rights speakers and first generation immigrants. We would feature diverse Congresspeople and Senators from the Democratic Party.
Our motto:
"I am America."
Black children, Latino children, children of gay parents, Muslims, Jews, athiests, poor people, rich people, middle class people. WE are America.
Not the divisiveness and racism the other side sells.
But a Democratic Party expressed in the faces of one million people. Diversity as strength, not weakness.
I have no idea how to organize anything, but this idea seems the most profound way we can respond to the racism of the Beck/Palin "White Pride" movement.
All our various media streams coming together to organize ONE SINGLE EVENT. A single day of celebration.
Who's with me?