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In reply to the discussion: Kansas City votes to remove Martin Luther King's name from historic street [View all]mnhtnbb
(31,393 posts)In fact, the local newspaper is one of the few newspapers that endorsed Trump in 2016. So I was pretty familiar with KC politics from 1988-94.
So renaming The Paseo in KC without citizen input? Really, really bad move and they had to expect push back.
That said, Missouri (and Kansas City is in Missouri, not Kansas) is a southern state. The group that pushed for the iconic, landmark Paseo to be renamed after MLK made a gutsy decision and not surprisingly has suffered consequences.
To say that it's not racist is not entirely true. I suspect a fair number of those votes were based on racism. It's ok to name a street after MLK, but be careful which street is renamed. It's kind of like "it's ok for blacks to be doctors, lawyers, professional people, but not President of the United States."
My $.02 from having lived in the area for 6 years.