Posted on 11/05/2019 8:42:46 AM PST by yesthatjallen
Emotions that simmered for nearly a year over the renaming of a historic major thoroughfare in Kansas City, Missouri, for the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. led to a tense scene at a black church as get-out-the vote efforts wound down ahead of residents going to the polls.
About 100 supporters of keeping the King name for the 10-mile (16.1-kilometer) boulevard were at a rally to court voters Sunday when opponents walked into the Paseo Baptist Church and stood along its two aisles. Those against the King name stood silently and did not respond to calls for them to sit down. Several speakers and people in the crowd told them they were being disrespectful.
On Tuesday, the debate will end, as voters decide if Kansas City’s reputation as one of the largest cities in the U.S. without a street named for the iconic civil rights leader will cease. The boulevard had been named The Paseo, and a group named Save the Paseo collected 2,857 signatures in April — far more than the 1,700 needed — to have the name change put to a public vote. Many of the opponents who stepped inside the small church along the boulevard Sunday were wearing Save the Paseo T-shirts at the voter rally.
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Why does it always have to be a boulevard?
On a side note, whatever happened to all the schools whose names were changed to Obama?
Did all the kids graduate at the top of their class?
What’s the matter? Wasn’t “King” African- or Muslim- sounding enough?
Yeah, it’s new name will be Free Mumia Abu Jamal Boulevard.
Sadly in almost any city you go to the street named after him is invariably in the middle of a shooting gallery where civilization has collapsed.
Let them rename Troost. That street already has a bad reputation.
Why does it always have to be a boulevard?
This is Kansas City. Half the major thoroughfares are boulevards.
Well, like most streets named “Kennedy” MLK Boulevard provides a public service as to which areas to avoid after dark. Racist statement? — perhaps — but that doesn’t change the element of truth in it.
All I know is that if you are on MLK boulevard, in almost any major city in the country, you better keep your doors locked and windows up and be off the street before dark, or avoid it altogether.
Nothing good ever happens on MLK boulevard ...
“Why”
To designate no-go zones
I appreciate the fact that cities name streets in their most dangerous neighborhoods “Dr. Martin Luther King Boulevard” because it lets out-of-towners know what part of the city to stay away from.
That’s right. Even the beer is named Boulevard in Kansas City.
Back in the 1980s, Brooklyn Street was renamed Caesar Chavez boulevard, here in Los Angeles.
The funny thing is, the Latino community at large wasn’t a big fan of the new name.
I still hear some of them referring to it as “Brooklyn, now Caesar Chavez.”
More and more I realize that a loud mouth minority runs the show quite often.
VERY BAD HEADLINE.
This is about turning a street INTO MLK, not away from it.
Riots begin tomorrow.
This reminds me, someone was condemned as racist, for creating an app which showed tourists where the bad neighborhoods were located in cities they were visiting.
I can only speak for myself, but can say, when traveling, it’s in the back of my mind, that we want to be careful about leaving the touristy areas of a city. You don’t want to end up wandering around or getting lost and stumble on a bad area.
It is the duty on white tourists to be victims of crime, reparations ya know..... :-(
Tampa,FL changed Buffalo Ave. to MLK Boulevard. People still call it Buffalo Ave.
Likewise, my dad’s generation referred to Columbus Dr. by its original name - Michigan Ave. The bridge across the Hillsborough River still has the nameplate with Michigan Ave. Bridge on it.
Thanks for the mention. People don’t take to change sometimes.
Get an anti-emetic ready (things named after Obama)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_things_named_after_Barack_Obama
Show me an MLK BLVD in this country that’s not lined with Section 8 housing, liquor stores and/or pawn shops.
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