Fundamental Rights Supporters Gain Momentum as Thousands Plan to Rally on Lincoln Memorial

Well folk that is what it takes, massive political, economic and legal pressure brought to bear. Not that the rally will be significant as the fact that several major players in the family law reform movement will be present.
Pastor Smith could be right, the “racial civil rights movement ” did begin with such an event. After the marches of MLK and others, it was no longer possible to ignore them. It became either ,support them( us) or side against them. As it happened, only the hard core bigots sided against MLK, everyone else knew that what was being done to the black folks was wrong and it was high time it stopped! The same situatiion applies to the noncustodial parents and fathers/men. It is time for reform and it is high time all this biase and prejudice against fathers/men was stopped.
And Like MLK and the “racial civil rights movement”* there will be those that will fight to the last to not to have to change their biased thinking. There will be those that will be left behind and their outdated ideas ending up on the ash heap of history. A bad, rotten and evil idea that finally was vanquished.
I know what God already knows , that in his (Gods ) universe good triumphs and evil is vanquished. Wrong does not hold sway forever.
racial civil rights movement- there have been several ” civil rights movements” , MKL and his people were the first major one, there were others before MLK, but his was the greatest and hopefully not the last.

In the 1950s and before (but after the Reconstruction Era) that the Black Family was strong, proud, and intact. As a Black you had to sit at the back of the bus, use separate washrooms, were excluded from restaurants, and in the Deep South your were hung at the word alone of a white woman (e.g., rape accusation). The Black Family did not experience fatherlessness. Since the Civil Rights era of the 1960s the Black Family no longer exists. Greater than 70% of the children are born out of wedlock. The irony does not escape me that the Civil Rights movement provided for the long overdue correction of injustice but simultaneously saw the advent of the end of the Black Family. And nobody in the Black Community addresses this honestly-never have-don’t today. They replaced the father with the government and destroyed their own community. It will take a men’s movement working with a father’s movement to restore sanity to family life in America and it will be a very very tall order. It may even restore the Black Family along with the White Family if it is not too late. Time will tell.

Forgive my timidity, but marches and gatherings on the mall are as common as Visualize World Peace bumper stickers and therefore about as effective in being catalysts for change. They do serve to focus the group, and are affirming to those already convinced of the need for them, but little else.
I guess there exists a number that, if you could get that level of attendence, it would get serious attention. As it is now there likely will be all kinds of different groups about competing for space and attention.
I am not fatalistic and I’m glad this rally is happening…wish I could come, but lets not expect that by this time next year there will be anything more than a few fag ends lying about in the grass in Washington resulting from this rally.
I get nervous about emphasis on “family” and “Fathers”. These two objectives should not ever be in competition, and by honest definition are not. But when any group calls itself a “family”: movement there will be those who assume it is either an anti-gay rally (same sex marriage), or even just another womens advocacy bunch.
Unashamedly this should be called a MENS rally, and by our little gang focusing on men it will be families that benefit.