Joe Doakes from Como Park emails:
Black Lives Matter Series Feb. 2, 9 and 16
A free, three-part series about the historical roots of the Black Lives Matter movement will be presented at the Ramsey County Library in Roseville on Tuesdays throughout February at 12:30 p.m. Macalester College professor Duchess Harris, author of the new book, Black Lives Matter, will conduct the series.
- Feb. 2 – Part 1: Reconstruction to Brown v Board of Education
- Feb. 9 – Part II: Civil Rights to the Clinton Administration
- Feb. 16 – Part III: Black Lives Matter in the Age of Obama
Black History Month Programs Feb. 19 and 26
The Ramsey County and City of Saint Paul Employees Black History Month Planning Committee will host two programs in February. Additional details will be available in upcoming editions of Ramsey News.
Program schedule:
- Friday, Feb. 19: The Dred Scott Decision and Minnesota’s Ties to the Underground Railroad, noon – 1 p.m., East Building
- Friday, Feb. 26: Proclamations and program, noon – 1 p.m., City Hall-Courthouse (catered lunch available for purchase at 11:30 a.m.)
Joe Doakes
Interesting.
The Ramsey County and City of Saint Paul Employees Black History Month Planning Committee…
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this excerpt from the DRED SCOTT versus JOHN F. A. SANDFORD decision is the part that scared the Democrats in 1857 and still scares them:
“It would give to persons of the negro race, who were recognized as citizens in any one State of the Union, the right to enter every other State whenever they pleased, singly or in companies, without pass or passport, and without obstruction, to sojourn there as long as they pleased, to go where they pleased at every hour of the day or night without molestation, unless they committed some violation of law for which a white man would be punished; and it would give them the full liberty of speech in public and in private upon all subjects upon which its own citizens might speak; to hold public meetings upon political affairs, and to keep and carry arms wherever they went. “
Justice Taney clearly defines the rights that any free citizen has in unequivocal terms and which the Democrats to this day are fighting to strip from the black population
1230pm, interesting… why in the middle of the day on a Tuesday shouldn’t these people be at their jobs?
1230pm, interesting… why in the middle of the day on a Tuesday shouldn’t these people be at their jobs?
A) That presumes they have jobs in the first place.
B) Those that DO have “jobs” are most likely in academia, government bureaucracy, or non-profit/social (justice) work, so taking time to be away for something like this isn’t exactly causing a “loss of productivity”.