Well, to kick off Black History Month, the first day in February, the Kentucky Black Legislative Caucus celebrated the civil rights movement today in the Capitol Rotunda.

Speakers included members of the caucus, past and present activists, the governor and legislators from both parties and chambers.

Now, while no one can argue that black history is not full of injustices and it is terrible injustices, we cannot we cannot we dare not let the past hold us back, nor should we ever focus on the ugly past.

We can remember it, but we should not focus on it.

We must look to the future.

Acknowledging that we are have come a very, very long way.

Black history, as you've already heard this morning, is American history.

And we cannot separate the two, no matter how hard sometimes one tries.

We have continued to again sustain, preserve and protect laws and other activities which clearly support civil rights for all persons, regardless of race, color, creed, national origin, or gender.

More recently, the resurging of public acts and certain places of anti civil rights violence have made the work of all civil rights activists in this country more necessary than ever before.

Frankfurt will observe the 50th anniversary of the historic march on Frankfurt that drew more than 10,000 folks.

That was on March 5th, 1964.