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Kansas City reafirms it's stereotype
Posted by: RgrF
Date: November 06, 2019 11:25PM
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Re: Kansas City reafirms it's stereotype
Posted by: Mr Downtown
Date: November 06, 2019 11:42PM
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But those who wanted the street returned to its former name, Paseo Boulevard, heralded the result as a win for a black community that they say was ignored when the decision to change the name to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard was first made.
“Dr. King’s dream is real,” said Alissia Canady, a black former councilwoman who opposed naming the street for Dr. King. “And black voters won’t allow anybody, black or otherwise, to disenfranchise them in Kansas City.”
About 65 percent of voters decided they preferred the name Paseo Boulevard, according to unofficial election results released by the city.
The monthslong battle had incited an unlikely political battle in which black people for and against keeping Dr. King’s name on the street claimed they were on the side of racial justice.
Dr. Howard’s organization had led a petition drive last year to get a ballot measure allowing voters to choose whether to rename Paseo Boulevard after Dr. King. That drive failed, but the city’s elected officials stepped in and voted, 8-4, to change the name anyway. In the process, the Council did not adhere to an ordinance requiring most of a street’s residents to approve a renaming.
Re: Kansas City reafirms it's stereotype
Posted by: Speedy
Date: November 07, 2019 05:09AM
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Posted by: cbelt3
Date: November 07, 2019 08:19AM
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Re: Kansas City reafirms it's stereotype
Posted by: SteveO
Date: November 07, 2019 02:12PM
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Posted by: rjmacs
Date: November 07, 2019 06:25PM
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Posted by: Steve G.
Date: November 07, 2019 08:51PM
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Posted by: SteveO
Date: November 07, 2019 10:47PM
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Posted by: rjmacs
Date: November 08, 2019 07:47AM
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Re: Kansas City reafirms it's stereotype
Posted by: SteveO
Date: November 08, 2019 09:20PM
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Re: Kansas City reafirms it's stereotype
Posted by: SteveO
Date: November 09, 2019 05:19PM
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Re: Kansas City reafirms it's stereotype
Posted by: rjmacs
Date: November 11, 2019 12:05PM
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1. I'm from here, so I know what I'm talking about.
2. I'm more liberal than most, and very supportive of racial equality, which immunizes me against any claims having to do with race or racism.
3. I feel qualified to judge efforts to honor MLK, Jr. as poorly considered and executed, and spout my wisdom about how others ought to have done it better.
4. That's just the way it is. Some things will never change. But I'm still on the right side of history; it's everyone else that can't seem to get it right.
Re: Kansas City reafirms it's stereotype
Posted by: SteveO
Date: November 14, 2019 01:43PM
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Posted by: RgrF
Date: November 14, 2019 02:09PM
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Posted by: SteveO
Date: November 14, 2019 02:44PM
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Posted by: rjmacs
Date: November 19, 2019 05:42PM
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Re: Kansas City reafirms it's stereotype
Posted by: SteveO
Date: November 19, 2019 08:55PM
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