The Zimmerman verdict protests are Astro-turf and sparsely attended

[tailfins]

In other words, the turnout was somewhere between minuscule and puny — maybe, at best, fifteen thousand people nationwide in a country of 314 million.

http://pjmedia.com/rogerlsimon/2013/07/22/microscopic-rallies-for-trayvon/?singlepage=true

[Marcus Aurelius]

But...but...but... if they can't keep racism alive, what will Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton and the like do with themselves?Saying you don't want any more racism in this country is just trying to put the black man down.:poke:

[aboutime]

In other words, the turnout was somewhere between minuscule and puny — maybe, at best, fifteen thousand people nationwide in a country of 314 million.

http://pjmedia.com/rogerlsimon/2013/07/22/microscopic-rallies-for-trayvon/?singlepage=true



Anyone happen to remember the so-called, highly advertised, media circus from several years ago called 'The Million Man March" in Washington, D.C.?

Anyone care to share the figures posted by the D.C. Park Police following the Massive March that FIZZLED out???

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The Million Man March, Washington, D.C. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Washington,_D.C.), October 1995 was the focus of a large crowd counting dispute.


Crowd counting is a technique used to count or estimate the number of people in a crowd. At ticketed events, turnstiles (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turnstile) are often used to precisely count the number of people entering a venue. At unticketed events, especially events that take place in the streets or a park rather than an enclosed venue, crowd counting is more difficult and less precise. For many events, especially political rallies (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demonstration_(people)) or protests (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protest), the number of people in a crowd carries political significance and count results are controversial (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Controversial). For instance, the global protests against the Iraq war (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protests_against_the_2003_Iraq_war) saw many protests at which widely differing counts were offered by organizers on one side and the police (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Police) on the other. Another memorable incident occurred when Louis Farrakhan (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Farrakhan)threatened to sue (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawsuit) the Washington, D.C. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Washington,_D.C.) Park Police for announcing that only 400,000 people attended the 1995 Million Man March (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Million_Man_March) he organized.