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The Keith Lowry-Henry Ellyson Post 5 of The American Legion will present its annual Memorial Day Service at 11 a.m. Monday, May 31, at Kingfisher Cemetery, Commander Joe Bliss announced.
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As visitors pour into Kingfisher Cemetery for the Memorial Day Weekend, volunteers from Memory Lane, as always, will be there to help.
Read moreKingfisher County’s small grain crop is thriving under cooler than usual late spring temperatures and adequate moisture conditions.
Read moreIf I were black – and as our late friend Ted Buswell remarked, “If we go back nine generations we’re kin to everyone in the world,” I would be incensed that politicians claimed I was unable to make it on my own.
Read moreInstitutional racism and systemic racism are terms bandied about these days without much clarity. Being 84 years of age, I have seen and lived through what might be called institutional racism or systemic racism. Both operate under the assumption that one race is superior to another. It involves the practice of treating a person or group of people differently based on their race. Negroes, as we proudly called ourselves back then, were denied entry to hotels, restaurants and other establishments all over the nation, including the North. Certain jobs were entirely off-limits to Negroes. What school a child attended was determined by his race. In motion pictures, Negroes were portrayed as being unintelligent, such as the roles played by Stepin Fetchit and Mantan Moreland in the Charlie Chan movies. Fortunately, those aspects of racism are a part of our history. By the way, Fetchit, whose real name was Lincoln Perry, was the first black actor to become a millionaire, and he has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame and, in 1976, the Hollywood chapter of the NAACP awarded Perry a Special NAACP Image Award.
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Everyone around here has heard of The Colonel’s chicken, Eischen’s chicken, Rooster’s chicken, Golden Chick’s chicken, and I served up Easy Stop’s chicken for dinner back in the ‘80s. There’s still some who remember The Chicken Shack west of Hennessey where the golf course now stands, but I bet you’ve never heard of Jesus Chicken.
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Is it better to achieve results or generate more “jobs” without achieving one’s goals? Are private businesses more results-focused than government bureaucracies?
Read moreOn May 19, 35 Republicans (see list below) voted in favor of the Democrats’ partisan commission to “investigate” the events of Jan. 6 at the U.S. Capitol.
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