Why I’m Not Marching

In my activist bones something always makes me yearn to support a demonstration or a march. And certainly, given the unrelenting attack on public policies that benefit the majority of blacks, there is an urge to applaud any nonviolent action whose target is the Gingrich high-tech barbarians. As a manifestation of massive people empowerment, a March on Washington by the Caring Majority could be very much in order and long overdue.

But October 16 is not a Caring Majority march. Is Minister Louis Farrakhan’s march focused on the current outrages of the Washington Republican majority? Is the anger of this march targeted at legislation that will eradicate the entitlement of all children, including black children, to receive Aid t...