Reply #17: Backers of march unswayed by delay (PA)

[MrBenchley]

"The Palm Sunday March to Save the Children, set for yesterday, was postponed because of inclement weather.
The event, now set for 3 p.m. Saturday, was expected to attract thousands to march in silence in the neighborhood where Faheem Thomas-Childs, 10, was fatally wounded in the cross fire of an early morning gunfight outside T.M. Peirce Elementary School, at 23d and Cambria Streets in North Philadelphia.
The community outcry over the Feb. 11 shooting of Faheem and the killing of 22 other Philadelphia schoolchildren since September prompted community activists to call for a massive march to be led by children and the families of some of the victims.
"It's a decision we had to make," J. Whyatt Mondesire, president of the Philadelphia chapter of the NAACP, a cosponsor of the march. "The primary concern is the safety of the children." "

http://www.philly.com/mld/inquirer/news/local/8356085.htm

You might recall the NAACP is on the NRA's imbecilic enemies list...almong with pretty much every actual civil rights group in existence.