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Jan 6, 2009

Blacks lead both houses, a first for nation | Today's Drum

The two Coloradans are about to make history as the first blacks to preside over both houses of a state legislature in the same session.


Terrance Carroll, House speaker and Peter C. Groff, Senate president, are Legislature’s only black members.

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Of Course The Mighty "Topix" Africans Can Do Better Because They Have Education And Pure African Blood.
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We have many "firsts" for African-Americans in 2009!

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Hopefully we can keep rising to the top despite all the obstacles.

Good Article.

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No Matter What Haters Say. We Prove Them Wrong...Almost EVERYDAY!

Meanwhile "Topix" Immigrants Brag And Boast About Themselves. Exactly What Have They Accomplished, Though?

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Still I Rise.

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Trufax wrote:
End Affirmative Action now!
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The Colorado Legislature has 105 members.
2 are Black. They get hold the gavel during meetings.

Big Win!....for Dumbasses.
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The Colorado Legislature has 105 members.
2 are Black. They get hold the gavel during meetings.
Big Win!....for Dumbasses.
More importantly, they decide what bills are introduced to their bodies, assigned bills to committees, delegates representative to preside over each floor, sets the legislative calendar, chair of the steering committee - plus, they are the party's leader in the legislative. Therefore, the name your call others describes you.
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We appoint unqualified blacks all the time in all walks of life. Its called affirmative action racist discrimination against whites.
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WakeUpPeople wrote:
<quoted text>More importantly, they decide what bills are introduced to their bodies, assigned bills to committees, delegates representative to preside over each floor, sets the legislative calendar, chair of the steering committee - plus, they are the party's leader in the legislative. Therefore, the name your call others describes you.
You have no idea, you pathetic sub species.
Go away.

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One day, every wheel of industry is going to stop, and when they start up again, it will be in the Asiatics favor.

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You have no idea, you pathetic sub species.
Go away.
No your mother had no idea she was producing an idiot like yourself. However, my post in 100% percent because I am original.
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<quoted text>No your mother had no idea she was producing an idiot like yourself. However, my post in 100% percent because I am original.
When I go to the zoo, do you really think that I want to hear the opinion of the monkeys? No. Your purpose is to throw poo at each other and entertain me. Nothing more.
Now do a little song and dance. I have no interest because you have no worth.

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Still I Rise.
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Fact wrote:
We appoint unqualified blacks all the time in all walks of life. Its called affirmative action racist discrimination against whites.
SOUR GRAPES ?

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And still "I RISE" Despite every effort you,ve made to hold me down. And still ,I RISE. I LOVE IT.
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When I go to the zoo, do you really think that I want to hear the opinion of the monkeys? No. Your purpose is to throw poo at each other and entertain me. Nothing more.
Now do a little song and dance. I have no interest because you have no worth.
I am not the father that left you at birth. I am African in America. More so, monkeys throw their waste on the trash standing outside their cage - you. You know you enjoy the smell. Now call your down low partner before your mother asks to join in. You clown.

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<quoted text>More importantly, they decide what bills are introduced to their bodies, assigned bills to committees, delegates representative to preside over each floor, sets the legislative calendar, chair of the steering committee - plus, they are the party's leader in the legislative. Therefore, the name your call others describes you.
W O W...Lovely!

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Cannibal of Negro Hope wrote:
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When I go to the zoo, do you really think that I want to hear the opinion of the monkeys? No. Your purpose is to throw poo at each other and entertain me. Nothing more.
Now do a little song and dance. I have no interest because you have no worth.
Still I Rise
by Maya Angelou

You may write me down in history
With your bitter, twisted lies,
You may trod me in the very dirt
But still, like dust, I'll rise.

Does my sassiness upset you?
Why are you beset with gloom?
'Cause I walk like I've got oil wells
Pumping in my living room.

Just like moons and like suns,
With the certainty of tides,
Just like hopes springing high,
Still I'll rise.

Did you want to see me broken?
Bowed head and lowered eyes?
Shoulders falling down like teardrops,
Weakened by my soulful cries.

Does my haughtiness offend you?
Don't you take it awful hard
'Cause I laugh like I got gold mines
Diggin' in my own back yard.

You may shoot me with your words,
You may cut me with your eyes,
You may kill me with your hatefulness,
But still, like air, I'll rise.

Does my sexiness upset you?
Does it come as a surprise
That I dance like I've got diamonds
At the meeting of my thighs?

Out of the huts of history's shame
I rise
Up from a past that's rooted in pain
I rise
I'm a black ocean, leaping and wide,
Welling and swelling I bear in the tide.
Leaving behind nights of terror and fear
I rise
Into a daybreak that's wondrously clear
I rise
Bringing the gifts my ancestors gave,
I am the dream and the hope of the slave.
I rise
I rise
I rise.
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