Black Caucus to hold MLK celebration

Monday, January 7, 2013

This year’s Missouri Legislative Black Caucus swearing in and celebration of the life of Dr. Martin Luther King will take place Wednesday in the Capitol Rotunda.

The ceremonies begin at 7 p.m.

Speakers include: Rep. Steve Webb, D-St. Louis County, chairman of the minority caucus; and Rev. Dr. Freddy J. Clark of the Shalom Church City of Peace.

Performances by the Lincoln University Dance Troupe and the Paseo Academy of Fine and Performing Arts Jazz Ensemble and Choir will take place. The public is welcome to attend.

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online_editor 4 months, 2 weeks ago

I removed some comments that contained personal bickering. Please focus the discussion on the issues. Thank you. --Rick Brown, online editor, News Tribune

asb 4 months, 2 weeks ago

Rick you got more than a little carried away. My post was not bickering. All I said was "anybody with half the brains of an argyle sock . . . " ah, I see.

connor 4 months, 2 weeks ago

And yet the forum is still borked for some of us.

BillyJoeRayBob 4 months, 2 weeks ago

Is there is White Caucus? I wonder what the blacks would think if the whites formed a caucus to push their own white agenda? Just saying ,, I think it's the minorities that are actually the racists.

yamahamian 4 months, 2 weeks ago

NAAWP - why not??

yamahamian 4 months, 2 weeks ago

New Years - one day Lincoln's BD - one day Fourth of July - one day Halloween - one day (night) Thanksgiving - one day Christmas - one day Get the pattern here?? So WHY does there have to be Black History MONTH?????

3633 4 months, 2 weeks ago

There has been a White Caucus all the time!!!!!!

yamahamian 4 months, 2 weeks ago

And if they organized and had meetings and events like the BC does, they'd be called racists. So why can BC do it??

JCLifer 4 months, 2 weeks ago

We need a Humanbeing Caucus.

rs1jcmo 4 months, 2 weeks ago

That can happen IF we as a people stop being bias and stop coming up with excuses for bending the laws/rules in favor of certain peoples' interests (based on race, political affiliation, economic status, etc.).

JCLifer 4 months, 2 weeks ago

We need a Human being Caucus.

3633 4 months, 2 weeks ago

May want to tell that to the Missouri Congress

Littleinvestor 4 months, 2 weeks ago

Missouri has a Legislature, not a congress.

asb 4 months, 2 weeks ago

For the record, Missouri has a legislature, as do all fifty states and the federal government. Legislature is the largest and most generic term. The US has a Congress, Britain has a Parliment, Japan has their Diet, and Missouri has a General Assembly. They're all legislatures. They are all owned, more so today than at any time in history, by corporate interests more than by their constituents. Corporate interests are not evil, but monopolistic influence is.

RobHunterJohnson 4 months, 2 weeks ago

You know, if you have ever sat up in the chambers, and watched, they act like our US Congress! Rob

3633 4 months, 2 weeks ago

Ok I said a Congress but I made a mistake, so it's the Legislature, however; they still need to come together, Black, White and any other group!!!!!!! It's time out for all this seperation on their behalf and the people of Missouri. also, all of you knew exactly what I meant!!!!!!!!!!! Thanks for keeping me straight B4 I was too far gone.

m2thadsr 4 months, 2 weeks ago

When we can look at the sentencing of missourians in the court and white people and black people get the same sentences and not the drastic differences that we see still today as well as racial profiling which is extremely hig in this state. We will need and have the black caucus and there is no white caucus because the whole legislature except the black caucus is the white caucus. Call it Racist, seperation or whatever you want but if the white people had given the black people the equal; treatment that they deserve there would be no need for a black caucus or NAACP or any other organization that stand for the rights of a particular group of people.

JCLifer 4 months, 1 week ago

Equal treatment will probably happen when there is equal behavior.

asb 4 months, 1 week ago

Who's behavior? Must we all act like you to qualify for equal protection? Gag me Lifer, you're going totally whacked here . . .

JCLifer 4 months, 1 week ago

Follow the law.

Sequoia 4 months, 1 week ago

Conservative racial history in a nutshell:

1776: Blacks are less than whites.

1860: Blacks are less than whites.

1960: Blacks are less than whites.

2012: These black people who keep talking about inequality sure are racist!

MO4LIFE 4 months, 1 week ago

Great Comment Sequoia

spelchek 4 months, 1 week ago

Democrat racial history in a nushell:
1861: confederate democrats secede from the union to keep slavery and uphold states rights
1861: republican abolitionists attack confederate democrat slave holders
1865: confederate democrats lose war to keep slavery and states rights to abolitionist republicans
April 14, 1865: republican, Abraham Lincoln (The Great Emancipator) dies by assassination to a confederate democrat sympathizer and self proclaimed martyr of the confederacy

spelchek 4 months, 1 week ago

"Black Caucus to hold MLK celebration" = Duh.

Littleinvestor 4 months, 1 week ago

1770's - The Northern Liberals tried to disallow ALL Blacks from being counted as citizens or residence in ALL states while the Southern Conservatives sought to count each one. Yet somehow this is now reported by Liberal Democrats as being 3/5th a human? Read Article 1, Section 2 of the U.S. Constitution. It reads, in part "Representataives and {direct Taxes} shall be apportioned among the several States...according to their respective Numers, which shall be determined by adding to the whole Number of free Persons, inclluding those bound to Service for a Term of Years, and excluding Indians not taxed, three fifths of all other Persons.} Liberal Democrats did not create the 3/5ths rule. Our founding fathers did.

JCLifer 4 months, 1 week ago

Or was the work of the founding fathers modified during the constitutional convention?

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