GO, Raleigh!!!!

[babylonsister]

Hundreds (of organizations) march at HKonJ rally in downtown Raleigh


CHUCK LIDDY - [email protected]

Hundreds of marchers walk toward the N.C. Legislature building during the 5th Annual Historic Thousands on Jones Street march Saturday morning in downtown Raleigh.

Editors Note: Updated at 4:17 p.m. to correct number the of marchers

RALEIGH -- About 800 people marched through downtown Raleigh Saturday to protest state budget cuts and rally for universal health care, immigration rights, diverse schools and more jobs for North Carolinians.

The NAACP and a coalition of more than 100 organizations met for the Historic Thousands on Jones Street rally, or HKonJ, which also commemorated the 102nd anniversary of the NAACP.

Benjamin Todd Jealous, the NAACP national president, said educational inequality is rampant in North Carolina, particularly in counties like Halifax, in the state's rural northeast, where there are three separate, racially divided school districts.

Americans must work together to prevent a slide back into an old era of racial segregation, he said.

“The movement that is HKonJ is the movement across this country,” Jealous said. “We’re still fighting the old Jim Crow.”

Jealous compared the Wake County school's plan for neighborhood schools to the old "separate but equal" doctrine that was discredited and struck down by the U.S. Supreme Court in 1954.

“It was a lie then, it is a lie now,” he said.

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http://www.newsobserver.com/2011/02/12/985471/hundreds-march-at-hkonj-rally.html

[gateley]

1. K&R! nt

[handmade34]

2. good job Raleigh

ny daughter lives there but don't think she was marching :(

[babylonsister]

4. Hell, my brother lives there and was probably actively protesting

this. :( He's a rethug through and through.

[handmade34]

6. I love my daughter

and she tries... but she is a cop and falls into that game too often... I am constantly reminding her that I took her to numerous protests when she was a baby and sang her anti-war songs... so, what happened... she's not a Republican, just not political???? don't know how that can be

[aquart]

3. k&r

[DLine]

5. Local media I dont think gave it the coverage it deserved..

Looked like a very good turnout

[tpsbmam]

7. The photographers got some wonderful shots.

Here are two of my favorite:




Linda Parker,9 (left),of Durham and Deanna Best,12 , of Goldsboro listen to speakers during the rally.



Meredith Swain, 85, of Ahoskie, N.C. listens to national NAACP President Benjamin Todd Jealous speak.

Love the photographs themselves and young/old depiction.