Attendance at the Weekend Rallies
You've all seen the numbers, I expect: Glenn Beck's "Restoring Honor" rally was estimated as 300,000 by NBC, though only 87,000 by CBS with an absolute maximum of 96,000 (they were using a climate model, perhaps).
Reverend Sharpton's rally drew 800 by some estimates, to 2,000 or 3,000 by others.
Looking at the pictures and the interviews (in which reporters are apparently disturbed by black people at the Restoring Honor rally) one curious possibility occurs to me and has gone unmentioned, as nearly as I can tell, elsewhere.
It seems that more black people attended Glenn Beck's rally than Al Sharpton's.
Of course, the Beck crowd was largely Tea Party, which is fairly representative of America as a whole. Various Tea Party polls have put its supporters at around 25% minorities, not too far away from the 37% minorities of the voting population. I'm glad to see it.
And it seems to me that Beck is doing more to promote black participation in America, and to commemorate their early contributions to its founding; he's had multiple television shows dedicated to the topic.
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Reverend Sharpton's rally drew 800 by some estimates, to 2,000 or 3,000 by others.
Looking at the pictures and the interviews (in which reporters are apparently disturbed by black people at the Restoring Honor rally) one curious possibility occurs to me and has gone unmentioned, as nearly as I can tell, elsewhere.
It seems that more black people attended Glenn Beck's rally than Al Sharpton's.
Of course, the Beck crowd was largely Tea Party, which is fairly representative of America as a whole. Various Tea Party polls have put its supporters at around 25% minorities, not too far away from the 37% minorities of the voting population. I'm glad to see it.
And it seems to me that Beck is doing more to promote black participation in America, and to commemorate their early contributions to its founding; he's had multiple television shows dedicated to the topic.
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