Kansas City voters on Tuesday overwhelmingly approved removing Dr. Martin Luther King's name from one of the city's most historic boulevards. The decision comes less than a year after the city council decided to rename The Paseo.
Unofficial results showed the proposal to remove King's name received nearly 70% of the vote, with just over 30% voting to retain King's name.
The debate over the name of the 10-mile boulevard on the city's mostly black east side began shortly after the council's decision in January to rename The Paseo for King. Civil rights leaders who pushed for the change celebrated when the street signs went up, believing they had finally won a decades-long battle to honor the civil rights icon, which appeared to end Kansas City's reputation as one of the largest U.S. cities in the country without a street named for him.
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11 comments:
This should happen in every city. Just imagine trying to name a street after Thomas Leggs. MLK was a whoremaster, a lying POS that plagiarized his Doctorate and associated with rapist and criminals. Not a lot of difference.
I hope that action becomes epidemic
What a Mayor and Council can do, voters can undo. In Salisbury, the voters gave the Mayor and Council another four years to keep doing what they've been doing the last four years. That thought is causing some people some serious mental anguish today.
Northwest Woodsman: King was definitely a philandering dirtbag who enjoyed beating up white prostitutes. The FBI had an unbelievable damaging file on him that should have been made public. That was an era when every one began pandering to blacks and since they had an absence of heros, the government promoted King since he was the biggest loudmouth in the black arena. When they created a holiday for him, I symbolically reported in for work on that day to make it clear that I didn’t honor him in any manner. The process of pandering continues to this day and things have not gotten better regarding race relations and they are not about to.
Who the hell is MLK , anyway ?
Anonymous said...
What a Mayor and Council can do, voters can undo. In Salisbury, the voters gave the Mayor and Council another four years to keep doing what they've been doing the last four years. That thought is causing some people some serious mental anguish today.
November 6, 2019 at 2:22 PM
You better believe it. And Jake Day and his rabid followers think the man is worthy of being the mayor. Ask Former County Councilman RINO John Hall and Dr. Hanlin why they were at the "victory party" for Jake Day?
great move they want to remove the statues of history that are white then why not remove street names and statues of history that are black. That is called equal rights
Milk was intelligence
He ruined a perfectly good revolution
Tear it down
City tried to do an end run around the residents of historic Interstate Ave. area with renaming it Cesar Chavez Blvd. Enough people called B/S on 'em to stop it in Portland a few years back. Glad to see it!
Anonymous Anonymous said...
Who the hell is MLK , anyway ?
November 6, 2019 at 2:55 PM
Seriously?
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