Dana Milbank unimpressed with the March on Washington

For all the fanfare surrounding Wednesday's celebration of the 50th anniversary of the 1963 March on Washington, there's the Washington Post's Dana Milbank. He wasn't so into it, as he writes in his Thursday column:

Wednesday’s celebration at the Lincoln Memorial was thoroughly modern in its profusion of causes and its excesses. There were no speeches likely to live beyond a news cycle or two, but there were awesome T-shirts featuring photographs of Rosa Parks and Beyoncé as “Positive African American Women.” There was no cause with the unifying force of the civil rights struggle, but there were performances by bare-chested Maori warriors and Bahamians in birdlike costumes dancing “Junkanoo.” ...

The original march was a challenge to the established order. The sequel was a rally of the powerful, including three presidents. There were special entrances for “ticketed guests.” There was a $132-per-person “I Have a Dream” brunch at the Willard Hotel (with “commemorative Martin Luther King keepsake”).