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CommUNITY Peace Brunch, March, Vigil Monday

By Jalisa Cannon on January 13, 2012 7:15 am in MLK Week, Student Life / 8 comments

 

(Andrew Kuhn/ Staff Photographer)

Central Michigan University will be kicking off Martin Luther King Week on Monday with the CommUNITY Peace Brunch.

The program will include comments from University President George Ross and essays written by the MLK Oratorical Contest finalists from 10 a.m. to noon in the Bovee University Center Rotunda.

Mount Pleasant Area Chamber of Commerce President Lisa Hadden will be giving a keynote speech.

Detroit sophomore Jawanza Hill said he took part in last year’s march and also performed at the brunch with his gospel choir.

“I really want to make time this year, because it’s important to get out and experience exactly what MLK stood for,” Hill said.

In addition to the Peace Brunch, a CommUNITY March and Vigil will be held from 3 to 5 p.m.

The march will begin at the Bovee University Center, as well as various residence hall locations, and convene in downtown Mount Pleasant where the vigil will be held.

Transportation will be provided back to campus for hot chocolate and donuts in the UC following the vigil.

Hill said CMU does a great job of representing what King wanted through the events.

A residence hall council competition will determine how many students take part in the march. The residence hall with the most attendees will receive $500 to add to its hall council budget.

Assistant Director of Multicultural Academic Student Services Keisha Janney said students didn’t always have this day off from classes, but after seeing the value in it, asked for the day off to participate in service and recognition events.

Janney said the overall goal of MASS is to get students, faculty and the community to think of this as a day on, not a day off.

“This day should be about things like giving back to the community and helping to raise awareness about equality in the U.S.,” Janney said. “MLK Day was enacted to honor Dr. King’s legacy and work.”

 
 

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  • Michmediaperson

    I don’t get it.  For all those years, the whining CMU union employees and student were crying the blues that with school in session, they couldn’t march.

    Then, when they get the day off, only a hundred or so show up to march.  We’ve got 650 tenured professors, 18,000 or so students.  Other union employees.  Plus, Warriner Hall employees.
    Where is everyone?  If they’re off skiing, shopping, sleeping, at the casino, etc., then we should have class that day.

    Now, CMU has to spend $500 to get people excited about this?

  • KING O FROD

    “I don’t get it.”

    Nothing new in that department.

  • Michmediaperson

    Ronald Reagan, a conservative, signed the MLK Day Bill. A conservative Republican!  It took a color-blind Republican to do this.  Democrats didn’t want MLK Day.
    Democrat radical Jimmy Carter from Georgia, who was president from 1977 to 1981 said NO! 

    That shouldn’t surprise anyone.  It was Jefferson, the founder of the Democrat Party, who had slaves.  It was the Democrat Party which has always been the party of four S’s:
    slavery, secession, segregation and in the past decade or so, socialism.

    It was Democrats who fought the Civil War to keep slavery.  Passed Jim Crow lows and kept them on the books for more than 100 year until MLK stopped it.  Democrats started the KKK.  Al Gore’s father and most Democrats(Lyndon Johnson was the exception) that fought the Civil Rights legislation of the 1950′s and 1960′s.

    It was just in the south.  Watch the old documentaries when King came to the North and was bombarded by liberal Democrats.  Chicago is a great example.  He came to Chicago in the 60s and was hit with bricks and almost lost his life there.  The democrat Daley Machine fought him.

    It was Republican President Eisenhower who passed the Civil Rights Act of 1957 and sent troops to Bill Clinton’s neighborhood in Arkansas when Clinton’s Democrat friends wanted to keep the schools desegregated.  That bill John F. Kennedy voted AGAINST. 

    Then, when Jack Kennedy was president and brother Bobby was Attorney General, they ordered FBI Director Hoover to wiretap King.  And, Kennedy opposed the 1963 march on Washington.

    So, it was the Republicans who have been for civil rights and honoring MLK.

    As at CMU, we’ll see nationally, how many unionized, tenured liberal professors show up to march on MLK.  They’re glad to do it at contract time to make their wallets fatter, but why don’t they do it to honor a great man.  At CMU, that’s about 650.

    And, we’ll see how many liberal students show up. If you figure that half the CMU student population are Democrats, then 8,000 to 9000 ought to show up.   If Lady Gaga or some rapper were downtown, they’d be there in a heartbeat.

    The Republican Party was founded to fight slavery, make sure all Americans have civil rights and freedom.  One of the many reasons, Ronald Reagan signed into law, MLK Day.

    Thank you, President Reagan

  • None

    Interesting that your narrative about Republicans being for civil rights and Democrats against ends in 1963.

  • Michmediaperson

    1963???

    Reagan signed the MLK Day law in the mid-80′s.

    Typical Liberal trying to re-write history!

  • Guest

    Sorry I missed that.  So you have one thing in the last 50 years, nothing since 1983 (almost 30 years ago), and Reagan originally opposed the MLK Day holiday and only signed it after it passed Congress with a veto-proof majority.

  • Michmediaperson

    Hey Guest!

    More Americans are in poverty today under Barack Hussein Obama than under any other President—Republican or Democrat!

    If poor people want to get out of poverty, then they need to be voting Republican!

    We Republicans want to send the illegals home so those in poverty can have jobs.
    We Republicans want to give tax credits to poor families so they can send their children to the same private schools (instead of the unionized, tenured public schools) that Mr. and Mrs. Barack Hussein Obama send their kids to.  They don’t send their kids to unionized, tenured public schools.  Why should they get to and not poor people?

    I could go on and on!  Look at the urban cities!  Pathetic!

    Dr. King’s niece said this week that if her uncle was still alive today, he’d be pro-life!!

    Obama and the Democrats have made poor people even poorer today!