Deepster News: Glenn Beck: Highjacking Civil Rights for the Civil Right

Right wing zealot Glenn Beck said his rally at the Lincoln Memorial, August 28th, was meant to reclaim the civil rights movement "from politics," but the civil rights movement was a liberation movement not a conservative one. Yet, Beck does not subscribe to the "liberation theology" that he says formed the paradigm of President Obama. Evidence of this came Saturday when he "apologized" for calling the president "a racist" saying, "He is a guy who understands the world through liberation theology". So how does Glenn Beck justify his opposition to a theology of liberation and his pro civil rights stance. He doesn't.

Glenn Beck never clearly justifies ANY position he holds. Instead he rambles on and on inserting key names and phrases he knows scared, befuddled, and sheepish White Americans will react to. Names like Black Panthers, Hitler, Marx, and Van Jones combined with phrases like, "threat to the faith", "reverse racism", and "America is the greatest country on Earth". By doing this he never has to explicate his stance on any given issue. Glenn Beck is a pro at talking a lot without saying anything.

Beck says, the essence of the movement was about "people of faith who believe you have an equal right to justice." But, on Saturday he drew a crowd numbering in the "tens of thousands" on the National Mall, but got blasted for its timing and location the same date and location as the 1963 March on Washington, where the Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. delivered his famous "I Have a Dream" speech.

See the view from the crowd

This fool of a man told Fox that the civil rights movement's economic agenda was "a part of it, but that's a part of it that I don't agree with." This angers me personally because Glenn Beck touts himself as an historian, and any historian worth a bag of sand should know that African-American Civil Rights movement was ALL about economics. After WWII the introduction of the G.I. Bill & 30 year mortgage began to change the landscape of America as White Americans began their exodus from inner-cities to the suburbs. Unfortunately, practices such as redlining and discriminatory FHA policies excluded Blacks from this new frontier of home ownership and crowded them into red districts , where there were few jobs and even fewer public services. These issues, of fair housing and equal employment, were the core motivation of the civil rights movement. If Beck doesn't agree with the economic motivations of the movement, he does not agree with the movement at all. It is a travesty that such a man has been given the limelight but it is even more of a travesty such a large swath of America turns to this simpleton for information. .

This is the same man that said President Obama, "has a deep-seated hatred for white people or the white culture" and urged his viewers to quit churches that preached "social justice," a term he equated with socialism. This is the "history buff" that claims America was founded on religious values but the most influential and memorable of America's founding fathers were far from religious ."Something beyond imagination is happening," he told participants who packed the National Mall in Washington. "America today begins to turn back to God. For too long, this country has wandered in darkness." I disagree, this country is wandering into darkness and Glenn Beck is handing out wet torches to his dim followers.Park Service officials have stopped giving crowd counts after previous controversies. But an estimate commissioned by CBS News, using aerial photography, put attendance at between 78,000 and 96,000. ABC News reported more than 100,000, while Fox -- and Beck -- estimated it at above half a million. Regardless of the rallies size Rev. Al Sharpton said it best, "It might be good, but it's not civil rights," he told CNN.