Lackluster acts perform for an audience of 300.
A pro-refugee rally was held at the Washington Monument at the National Mall on Sunday. “DC Rally 4 Refugees” was organized by the Tides Foundation with the help of many different groups, including the usual suspects: CODEPINK, The Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society, Amnesty International, and the Human Rights Campaign.
Speaker after speaker walked on stage to deliver the usual bumf about why we must open our borders. Sprinkled in with the academics and professional activists were a few artists reciting “poetry” and singing protest songs.
In one particularly dull performance, about two dozen people walked onstage one by one, dressed in black except for an orange life vest, paused in a row facing the crowd, took the life vests off and put them on the ground, and then walked off, one by one. Graffiti artists have more talent than these people. ...