One Thing Beck Can’t Claim: Black Supporters

There may have been a lot of red, white, and blue -- but there wasn't a ton of black in attendance.

By Jamilah King Aug 30, 2010

Campus Progress took a look at Glenn Beck’s big rally over the weekend, laughingly calling it "Beckapalooza." While Beck maintained that his intentions weren’t political, supporters seemed to feel differently. And perhaps nowhere was that more apparent than in who decided not to show up:

For an event aimed at reclaiming the civil rights movement, the crowd was pretty homogenous. There may have been a lot of red, white, and blue–but there wasn’t a ton of black in attendance.