24th annual D.C. Black Family Reunion is 9/12 - 9/13

[BumRushDaShow]

on the National Mall... Sponsored by the http://www.ncnw.org/events/reunion.htm">National Council for Negro Women. This had been planned some time ago, before any of the teabagger nonsense.

So what happens when you have a previously planned event and then stuff a volatile set of ad hoc events into the middle of it? I suppose they will stay by the Capitol but then if the teabaggers encounter these folks all around the National Mall who don't look like them, will they freak out? Will they brandish weapons (and risk a catastrophe, being that they will be in Chocolate City)? :shrug:

[Barack_America]

1. Um, given the teabaggers obsession with ACORN and conspiracies...

I see a potential problem here.

Oh boy.

[Tangerine LaBamba]

2. Oh, BEAUTIFUL!!!!!

This is a dream come true:

A bunch of racist rednecks running into a bunch of African-American women who are gathered for the most wonderful of reasons, a long-held tradition.

There is not enough popcorn in the world for this event.

I'll take the women, any odds you want.........................................

[Barack_America]

4. Wait until Fox starts trying to fold the reunion numbers into the 9/12 numbers...

60% of teabaggers are African American? Who knew?

[BumRushDaShow]

6. Exactly

You'll see footage of crowds (depending on the weather) that may be interspersed with teabagger hooligans holding signs full of misspelled nonsense, and they'll skew it to make it seem like the crowd shot is nothing but teabaggers, "from 'all races', and 'protesting Obama' in 'huge numbers'. :eyes:

[Tangerine LaBamba]

7. There is NO way those ladies

are going to let those ignoramuses anywhere near their gathering - which really is a lovely tradition on the Mall.

They'll have those asshats eating their lunches off their own butts without as much as a by your leave.

The OP got the title of the gathering wrong - it's the "Annual National Council of Negro Women, Inc. Black Family Reunion Celebration" and it's been going on for YEARS! This is a very big event, with food vendors, and professional entertainment, and thousands of celebrants. It's a big, big deal.

Now, those morans are not stupid enough - I know they're not - to dare to try to encroach on anything even CLOSE to this wonderful tradition. It would not be smart, it just wouldn't, and I'm sure they've already been told exactly where they're allowed to squat.

I love it. I truly do love this.................................

[Barack_America]

9. I'm really enjoying that imagery.

Tomorrow is going to be an interesting day.

Sort of sad I'm not making the trip down now.

[BumRushDaShow]

12. Dorothy Height is supposed to speak

That woman is amazing! Look what she has managed to see in her 97 years!!! :applause:

[BumRushDaShow]

10. 'We' just call it "The Black Family Reunion"....

:P

[Tangerine LaBamba]

The OP suggested it was a DC event - -

and it's not limited to DC.

I've only ever heard it called The Family Reunion. "Black" is new, since it was implied.

Whatever you call it, it's a great gathering. I've had some wonderful times there.

Are you going?

[BumRushDaShow]

19. A number of cities hold similar events

And NCNW held the first one http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1077/is_n12_v45/ai_8904396/">here in Philly. We couldn't do any name implying because so many people around here have their own weekend-long personal family reunion productions that this event (and similar types) had to be designated by that name to distinguish. :P

I was originally going to be traveling down there Sunday, but have been down there almost every month for the past year and have had it with I-95 & I-495 and the crap at the I-95/I-295 split in Delaware. :banghead: No more traveling for me for awhile. I have been stuck in too many traffic nightmares (mostly in Delaware).

Edit to add that I explicitly mentioned D.C. in the OP to tie this into all the "protests" planned the same weekend in D.C.

[Tangerine LaBamba]

21. I don't blame you -

that drive is about as horrible and deadly boring - except for the accidents, jams, construction, and stupid drivers - as any stretch of road in this country.

Yeah, now I see why you named it "DC" - it's a big weekend here.

The local news should be really interesting tomorrow......................

[BumRushDaShow]

24. I am hoping that cooler heads prevail

and the two groups are kept apart. Good luck to you down there!!! :)

[Tangerine LaBamba]

26. Thank you, but

I'm safe across the Potomac, in the very blue People's Republic of Alexandria.

There's nothing in the world that would get me down to the Mall tomorrow......................... :hi:

[BumRushDaShow]

28. Watch out for the wandering lunatics

looking for Arlington and ending up in Alexandria (due to rampant spelling and geography errors when using their Garmins). :rofl:

[Tangerine LaBamba]

29. HAHAHAHA!

We're kind to the bewildered, and we have a reputation for taking care of the terminally confused.

We'd herd them back to DC, and perhaps even get them into something clean and dry.....................................

[vadawg]

34. bamba surely you mean the peoples socialist soviet republic of alexandrovia

:)

[Tangerine LaBamba]

35. Well, of course I do,

but that takes too long to type, and you know how lazy us socialist types are.

I mean, why should I labor when someone else will do it for me, and I'll still get my share?

Right?

[warrior1]

3. awesome

[Kittycat]

5. What kind of turnout is expected on NCNW's side?

[BumRushDaShow]

8. We have that same kind of event yearly in Philly

And the turnouts are pretty large. They usually include concerts and vendors and all sorts of side events. When we have had similar cultural events here in Philly, there have been upwards of a million or more who pass through during the weekend.

D.C. probably gets folks from all around VA, MD, WV, PA, and NJ and beyond coming up or going down for the weekend - especially considering the historic election. Their literature estimates about 250,000 coming through each day based on past tallies.

[Tangerine LaBamba]

17. We get folks from the Carolinas, too,

as well as New York and Tennessee and some from as far south as Georgia................

[Justitia]

11. Their website says they get more than 500k each year.

[Tangerine LaBamba]

16. Yeah, that sounds right - spread out over three days -

I wouldn't be at all surprised if they've had half a million people attend.

This year, it's only two days, so the numbers might be a bit lower.

But the weather is going to be pretty nice, so I hope their turnout is really good......................

[PA Democrat]

18. The crowds look pretty big in the photos on their web site.

LOL. Those tea baggers are gonna be upset.

[Justitia]

13. Oh My. I don't know whether to die laughing at the irony or be fearful for the Reunion goers.

On one hand, the look on the faces of all those unreconstructed racists will be priceless!

On the other hand, I hate that their event could be despoiled by any of the lunatic fringe in the vicinity.

[Barack_America]

14. Fear may be warranted, but from what I hear, you've got it backwards.

;)

[BumRushDaShow]

15. Hee hee

I was going to post that the teabaggers may encounter a mall full of Maxine Waters' and Barbara Lees and Sheila Lees. Best they don't mess with this crowd. :rofl:

[busybl]

20. that bunch won't get off the buses if they roll up more than

2 black people standing together. Would be interesting to see some potato salad fly.

[BumRushDaShow]

25. No you didn't....

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

[CoffinEd]

22. Black family means more than black women

Just for clarification, the event is called the D.C. Black Family Reunion. Last time I checked there were more than black women in my family. There are going to be plenty of black men and boys there too of all ages. The National Council for Negro Women is merely the organization sponsoring the reunion.

Simply stated, if the tea baggers stray from the Capitol and head to the National Mall they are going to run into a large group of peaceful, but ain't going to tolerate a lot of their racist bullshit, black people. Just saying.

[jaysunb]

31. Uh Huh.....

:rofl:

BTW, welcome to DU, my brother.

[busybl]

23. wonder if beckkk knew and set them up.

[BumRushDaShow]

27. He probably had no idea

Black folk ain't even in his world view. Look how he and his ilk ignore or paternalistically roll their eyes at their illustrious lunatic leader Steele...

[busybl]

30. you're probably right.

[Lilith Velkor]

32. Oh. My.

I might have to show up for this. :evilgrin:

[PA Democrat]

33. Someone should tell the freepers.

Maybe they'll stay home.

[BumRushDaShow]

36. Oh NOES! The Guardian Angels

There is supposed to be some marathons down in D.C. this weekend and the teabagger brigade http://www.wtop.com/?nid=798&sid=1656225">is supposed to end their march at the National Mall where the Reunion events are taking place.

But the piece de resistance will be that the http://guardianangels.org/chapters/dc/2009/09/02/black-family-reunion-celebration-sept-12-2009-in-dc/">Guardian Angels will be walking around the crowd as well. Well teabaggers, good luck with that. :rofl:

[hileeopnyn8d]

39. Oh great

I can predict the right-wing internet buzz already about the paramilitary dressed urban "thugs" sent to intimidate the suburban stay at home moms(aka teabaggers).

Considering they're still all atwitter over the BLACK PANTHERS SENT TO INTIMIDATE VOTERS IN PHILLY!!!11!!

Cue the Drudge sirens.

[Burma Jones]

37. The teabaggers won't be marching on the Mall

They are meeting a couple blocks north of the mall, at Freedom Plaza which is at 14th and Pennsylvania Avenue and marching the 14 blocks down Pennsylvania Avenue to the Capitol. I assume there will be a lot of uniformed personnel between the two groups, although the teabaggers are probably afraid of the Black Families and will avoid them anyway.

[BumRushDaShow]

38. Then maybe WTOP's road closures link that I posted above was wrong?

Where it said:

The Tea Party Express Rally and March will be held on Saturday, starting around 11 a.m. The march will proceed from Freedom Plaza to the National Mall, causing temporary street closures on Pennsylvania Avenue between 14th and 3rd Streets NW.

I haven't been to the Capitol in awhile but have walked the length from the White House to the Capitol through the Mall (where, if I remember correctly, the Capitol is at one end of the Mall?). I don't know what the layout of the events are for the Reunion but expect it will be a bit of overlap out there...

I feel for the D.C. police today in any event.

Edit to add that I wasn't saying they were marching "on the Mall" but to it (where the Reunion events are located within)....