Sadly, just hours after marching in memory of Martin Luther King. I was called a jew bastard, and other hateful anti semitic names while watching football at a bozeman Bar.

Date:   1/22/2008 1:41:45 PM ( 16 y ago)

The weather was blistering cold with 17 below windchill with a fresh coating of snow over the unshoveled downtown Bozeman sidewalks.

20 Bozeman residents braved the cold to march from the Imperial Hotel on Main Street where marchers met in the parking lot to march to the Bozeman City Library to enjoy hot cider, the music of Vocalist Hannah Thrornburg accompanied by Tyler Van Dyken.


The weather was blistering cold with 17 below windchill with a fresh coating of snow over the unshoveled downtown Bozeman sidewalks.

20 Bozeman residents braved the cold to march from the Imperial Hotel on Main Street where marchers met in the parking low to march to the Bozeman City Library to enjoy hot cider, the music of Vocalist Hannah Thrornburg accompanied by Tyler Van Dyken.

About 50 plus arrived to share the video of Martin Luther Kings I have a Dream Speech during the 1963 March on Washington.

The crowd then enjoyed a sing along with Rick Hannula, remarks by father Clark Sherman of the Saint James Episcopal Church who gave a powerful speech in the Memory of DR. King

There was more music from the Jake Kozler Trio and punk rock band Jinx Removing with another powerful presentation by Rev. Denise Rogers a transplanted New Yorker who started a ministry in Bozeman Montana.

The powerful day concluded with everyone joining hands for the singing of We Shall Overcome.

Absent from the march were the majority of the 35 thousand Bozeman Residents, The Bozeman Mayor, City Commission or any representatives of the Democrat, Republican Party and local predominantly white local electronic media.

Habitat For Humanity, Big Brothers Big Sisters, The Bozeman Food Bank and the CAP Program were also present to meet and greet attendees.

The Bozeman Public Library generously provided the space, and an honorarium to the musicians who came to play for free
The predominantly White state of Montana has recently been criticized by minorities groups for its continued exploitation of minorities and the the governments continued racism against the Montana Cherokee tribes.

Racism In Yellowstone Park has also been an issue with Xanterra Corporation exploiting minority and elderly seasonal workers.
Minorities have been treated as second class citizens inside Yellowstone park as Xanterra Corporation has ignored racism and bigotry.


 

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