Posted on 11/06/2019 3:39:39 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
KANSAS CITY, MO (AP) — Kansas City voters on Tuesday overwhelmingly approved removing Dr. Martin Luther King's name from one of the city's most historic boulevards, less than a year after the city council decided to rename The Paseo for the civil rights icon.
Unofficial results vote 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 King, 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.
But a group of residents intent on keeping The Paseo name began collecting petitions to put the name change on the ballot and achieved that goal in April.
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I believe this would be called a resounding win for removal.
Let's see how long it takes the gubermint to remove his name from the Peoples boulevard.
Because everyone must act in lockstep and because diversity only applies to Prog ideals. The rest of you can STFU.
Most black urban areas have streets named after their heroes in the struggle so to speak
It lets me know what area to avoid when I'm in an unfamiliar city.
Let’s face it. MLK and his content of their character notion is long past abandoned. Today it is identity politics pervasively.
Get the damn statue that Obama had made out of the Capital. Put it in his home town.
If they want to name it after a known womanizer change it to Bill Clinton Blvd.
Put it in his home town.
In Kenya. Sure they would be pleased to have it...
How will I know which area to avoid?
Kansas City could rename Prospect Avenue to MLK Drive. There doesn’t seem to be anything special about that name. Or, if it is so important for Cleaver to have a street named for King, he could suggest that the street named for him be changed to King Boulevard.
There is no statue of King in the U.S. Capitol building. There is a bust, and it's been there since 1986.
It’s Drive in my town.
Federal Judge to block immediately on the basis of “Trump Bad!”.
Also in Chicago, Indianapolis, St. Louis, and Philadelphia.
Note that “Capital” and “Capitol” have different meanings.
Nobody seems to have retained the recent information that the guy was a lecher who engaged in gang rape.
Whatever KC does, I’m sure certain members of the King family will want a licensing fee for use of the name.
Aaahh...... a small victory over Africanization of America
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