Talk:Mistick Krewe of Comus

message: I am reverting todays edit by anon User:68.210.36.221, though not without reluctance. Much, perhaps 2/3rds, looks like positive additions, but it is couched very much in the Comus POV with some snide cracks at various other organizations, politicians and points of view. I encourage the anon editor to look over Wikipedia:Neutral point of view, and if possible rewrite more in those lines (note that the previous edits can be found in article history). If neither they nor anyone else does so, I will try to merge much of the historically descriptive material back into the article. I know it's nearly impossible to find people in New Orleans who can frame a sentence refering to the disputes between the old line crews and councilwoman Taylor without resorting to editorializing adjectives, but Wikipedia's goal is a straightforward description. -- Infrogmation 05:38, 21 January 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: It's "Mistick" not "Mystick."  
Sources -- R. Tallant, "Mardi Gras" (Pelican, 1976) at page 115.  See also, H. Schindler, "Mardi Gras Treasures" (Pelican, 2000) passim.  There are thousands of other sources.
To be 100% accurate, the article should be renamed to correct the spelling, but I don't know how to do that.
: Moved per sited reccomendation. -- Infrogmation 02:31, 22 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Mistick Krewe of Comus 

message: There is no reference for the suggestion that all Pickwick members belong to MKC.  This is not surprising, since it isn't accurate.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.14.42.239 (talk) 05:44, 8 March 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Wrong. You should probably read club history books. Robtin.Goodfellow (talk) 00:13, 21 August 2022 (UTC)
thread_title: Links between Pickwick Club & MKC

message: Thanks for your interest and work improving articles! However you have repeatedly uploaded files to Commons not fitting within guidelines, which were therefore deleted. See you talk page on Commons:    If you have questions you can't find the answer to, ask! Cheers, -- Infrogmation (talk) 01:36, 19 March 2019 (UTC)
thread_title: Attn

message: Can somebody find out when the final parade was held and insert it into the article. Thanks. BeenAroundAWhile (talk) 21:12, 20 July 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: I checked newspapers.com just now and found it never returned to parading, it having dropped out effective 2000. BeenAroundAWhile (talk) 21:17, 20 July 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  When was the latest parade? 

message: "The Comus organization (along with Momus and Proteus, other 19th-century Krewes) withdrew from parading rather than racially integrating."
This is a blatant, propagandistic falsehood. The krewes withdrew explicitly because it was being demanded that they forgo their vows of secrecy.  The city council had demanded access to their membership rolls. 76.27.182.222 (talk) 08:48, 15 February 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: LOL, is that how they're trying to spin it now? -- Infrogmation (talk) 04:21, 16 February 2023 (UTC)
replies: text:  No, that's what Comus has always maintained. The thing is, for all anybody knows, Comus has black members, but it's a true secret society and they've always taken that part really seriously, however odd it might seem. There's a really good book on the subject, The Lords of Misrule, by the late great Louisiana political columnist James Gill, which also serves as a really good brief history of Carnival/Mardi Gras in New Orleans and the racial politics associated with it. I second the original comment, just on a strictly factual basis. Comus, Momus, and Proteus never refused to integrate (at the very least that assertion is just screaming for a citation). They refused to make their membership rolls available to the city council, that's all anybody actually knows. Of course it might have been motivated by racism, but absent any statement from Comus or access to its membership rolls, that remains in the realm of speculation. My hunch is that Comus has black members, if only as a cover-your-a** tactic, but this too is of course only speculation. Mpaniello (talk) 03:11, 21 April 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Endless lies!