Thread: Any update on the Black Civil Rights March?

I have seen NO coverage on the news about this march. Is there any update? It's funny, the media would have covered this story like a blanket if they weren't marching against illegals. I guess the mainstream press has chosen sides on this one, this one could come back to bite the press in the butt.

http://www.swnebr.net/newspaper/cgi-bin ... .pl?161197

Article Posted: 06/22/2007 2:09:22 PM
African American Group: Amnesty Not a Civil Rights Issue

The illegal alien advocacy network has attempted to portray their campaign for a massive new amnesty program as a civil rights issue. It is not, say black Americans.

American blacks struggled, endured countless indignities, and even died to secure their full rights as citizens of the United States. Now their struggle and their hard won gains are being co-opted by advocates for citizens of other countries who are in this country illegally, stealing jobs and opportunities from the children and grandchildren of the Americans who achieved those rights.

On Saturday June 23, hundreds of American blacks will take to the streets of Los Angeles to take back their civil rights. "The illegal alien agenda is not a civil rights agenda," declared Ted Hayes, chairman of Choose Black America. "Forty years ago, black Americans bravely confronted a system that denied them their guaranteed rights as citizens. The illegal alien agenda is an effort to extort rights from the American people that they have not earned and don't deserve."

Black citizens will gather at the intersection of King & Crenshaw Boulevards at noon and march to Lemert Park for a rally at 2:30 pm. "We will send a clear message that black Americans will not allow our civil rights legacy to be expropriated by people who have never been denied their rights under the law because their very presence in this country is a demonstration of their contempt for the law. And we certainly will not sit by quietly as illegal aliens fill our jobs, our schools and our hospitals," said Hayes.

I was curious about the same thing. What happened?

So lame if it doesn't get coverage. I wouldn't be surprised is some sort of violence ensued - thus no coverage because that would draw attention to the problems of illegal immigration.

I mentioned this previously. They were ALL OVER that MacArthur Park rally... To play the illegals as victims...

We have a member who was driving there so I'm sure we'll hear something later.

Jun 23, 2007 4:54 pm US/Pacific

LAPD Summoned To Break Up Demonstration
300 People Protested For And Against Immigration In Leimart Park
(AP) LOS ANGELES About 300 people have squared off this hour in a Los Angeles park to demonstrate for and against immigration policies.

A line of police is separating both sides at Leimert Park and a citywide tactical alert was called a short time ago in case more officers are needed.

So far, however, there's been a lot of shouting but no violence.

About 150 people are taking part in a rally against illegal immigration organized by homeless advocate Ted Hayes.

Hayes apparently chose the park, an area known as the cultural center of the black community of Los Angeles, for a rally he called "Choose Black America - Not Amnesty - Not Illegal Immigration."

That, in turn, has drawn about 150 counter-demonstrators.


http://cbs2.com/topstories/local_story_174175701.html

Police and Protesters Square Off at Leimert Park

June 23, 2007, 4:17 PM PDT

A line of Los Angeles Police officers on Crenshaw Boulevard stood between a coalition of Minutemen and black activists, and a larger group of pro-immigrant marchers in Leimert Park today.

Officers, some in riot gear, some in shorts and on bicycles, lined the usually-busy boulevard street. At 3:50 p.m., LAPD officials declared the anti- immigrant rally to be an illegal assemble, as its parade permit had expired, and a short time later arrested activist anti-immigration activist Ted Hayes.

LAPD brass earlier had declared a tactical alert to muster enough officers to keep the two sides apart. And police, mindful of the May Day melee at MacArthur Park, carefully told reporters that it was setting up an observation zone at the southern side of the park.

Led by longtime homeless advocate Ted Hayes, an unusual coalition of white Minutemen activists and a small number of blacks demanding reparations for slavery had planned an 11 a.m. march to Leimert Park, and daylong rally.

But a racially-mixed pro-immigrants crowd of more than 400 persons milled about Leimert Park, a triangular spot of green known as the cultural center of black Los Angeles. They carried pro-immigration-rights signs, and vowed to prevent the others from marching into the park.

Inside the park, many black residents said they were aghast at what they said was the use of their community for the anti-immigration effort.

"Being a kind of multicultural person, I realized they have an urgency to get black folk on their side, and I knew it was wrong," said Ahzul Jimenez, 24, of Los Angeles.

Another pro-immigration protestor in the park, Terrance Hayes, said that as a black man he feels "everybody has a right to be here in this country."

But on the other side of the police lines, Hayes waved a banner decrying "the black American slave holocaust" and said it was a "travesty" that his group could not exercise its parade permit to rally in the park.

"As of this day, the city of Los Angeles in a state of chaos," Hayes said. He vowed to be arrested to protect his rights, and a few minutes after saying that was taken into custody.

Hayes had chosen the park, an area known as the cultural center of the black community of Los Angeles, for a rally he called "Choose Black America - Not Amnesty - Not Illegal Immigration."

Lauren Price, a 74-year-old Long Beach resident who had arrived with the Minutemen, carried an American flag, anti-immigration sign, and scoffed at those who said residents should all get along.

"We all can't get along because they are trying to take everything from us," she said.

Hayes has a parade permit, approved by the Police Commission, to use the park. But a large group of pro-immigration persons heard about the rally, and are counterprotesting by blocking access to the small triangle of green space.

Although the news reporter estimated more than 500 people were protesting, LAPD spokeswoman Mary Grady said police count 150 on each side.

News media are being told to report to an intersection at the south corner of the park "should the event be declared to be an unlawful assembly," said Grady.

A citywide tactical alert was called at about 1:30 p.m., meaning officers completing their shifts are being kept on overtime in case additional officers are needed.

Without going into details, the rallies may be "a little sideways," said police spokesperson Norma Eisenman. Hayes started his rally at 11 a.m. and expected to conclude it at 5 p.m., Eisenman said.

"The rallies at this point got to be a partly-separated stalemate,"

Grady said, "and no one is able to go into the park."

http://ktla.trb.com/news/ktla-immigrati ... omo-layout

It upsets me to see that they are not speaking out about this and I am a African=American who strongly appose this bill. The Hispanic community doesn't like Blacks and I know this for a fact. They do not assimilate at least we assimilated into America. They make me sick, I use to feel bad for Hispanics, but now I could care less. I have no empathy nor compassion for them, because they actually think we owe them something.

Listened to Ted Hayes talk on the John and Ken show and Ted will be giving a 9:30 am (pacific time) news conference re a request for a full and complete investigation into why his permit was disrupted.