Two Martin Luther King, Jr. Day Parades In Houston (Can't We All Get Along?)

Click2Houston/KPRC2 (NBC) ^ | 01.17.16 | Click2Houston/KPRC2

[TexasCajun]

Black Heritage Society's 37th Annual Original MLK Birthday Parade will begin at Crawford and Texas near Minute Maid Park, and end at Hamilton and Preston.

In Midtown, the MLK Grande Parade will be on San Jacinto Street and Elgin Street.

People will enjoy a mile of 15 floats and 30 bands. The grand marshal is Rushion McDonald who is the executive producer of The Steve Harvey Show. He's a Houston native and University of Houston graduate.

Both parades begin at 10 a.m.

[TexasCajun]

[TexasCajun]

These two groups have been feuding for years.

[4yearlurker]

There should be a MLK Parade on every Martin Luther King street,road,and boulevard. Let the news media show that!

[humblegunner]

I heard on KTRH that newly minted mayor Slyvester Turner wants to unite the groups.

Good luck, Sly.. those groups have decades of hate between them.

[a fool in paradise]

City is racist. They only permit ONE parade permit a day, except for these 2 warring factions of the black community.

[a fool in paradise]

Both parades are at the same time. Even in New Orleans during the Mardi Gras, they know to stagger them.

[PROCON]

The grand marshal is Rushion McDonald who is the executive producer of The Steve Harvey Show.

I'm surprised they announced the right starting time, Heh.

[Resolute Conservative]

Body armor is advised.

[TexasCajun]

In other news, burglaries spike in the 3rd Ward.

[TexasCajun]

I guess the mindset is to get them over with as soon as possible.

[I want the USA back]

February is white guilt month. All whites bow down and apologize for working hard and having a hard-working dad.

[TexasCajun]

Bless his heart.

I bet I'll be posting this same thread next year and the year after and every year he's mayor.

[a fool in paradise]

Isn’t Third Ward now called East-Mid-North-Do(wn)to(wn)?

[a fool in paradise]

Mayors now get more years in their terms in Houston.

[thackney]

If they staggered these groups, they would try to sabotage each other.

These two groups would be comical if they were not so sad. When they city only grant one a day, they fought each other to get it.

[TexasCajun]

I’m not sure, I just know to fill up with gas near home before going near any of them.

[Tijeras_Slim]

Which one does Quannel X endorse? That’s the important thing for me.

[a fool in paradise]

Which one does Sheila Jackson Lee attend and which one gets a proxy staffer?

[Snickering Hound]

It’s been going on for years, the two groups truly hate each other.

It’s quite comical, but the local news media still throws a fit every year over it.

[TexasCajun]

Slyvester Turner's first major crisis!

Which MLK Parade to attend first. hehe