
If Kansas City really wants to become a 1st rate metropolis, the leaders of this town could do worse than to pick San Francisco as their model.
San Francisco has
street cars, world class cuisine and entertainment . . . It's obviously a pretty tolerant city considering how many gheys call the place home AND they keep the minorities at arm's length in Oakland.
Additionally, the mayor of San Francisco recently signed legislation Wednesday requiring the city to
issue identification cards to undocumented immigrants and other residents who can't or won't apply for driver's licenses.
And guess what? San Francisco isn't going crumble into the ocean any time soon (at least not because of this), their hospitals won't become any more overburdened than corporate health care in the U.S. has already made them, their property values will remain far higher than KC AND their "cultural life" (surprisingly not just ghey bars) will probably always outpace this cowtown.
Put simply, San Francisco stays winning because they embrace diversity (at least in spirit, remember all of the dark po'folk still live in Oakland).
If Kansas City's Mayor had any real courage or actually believed in any of the "principles" regarding diversity he espouses he might put forth a similar measure in Kansas City. It would certainly be less costly than his failed Office of Immigrant Affairs plan.
A KC ID card for illegal immigrants is only fair
CONSIDERING THAT ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS IN THIS TOWN MUST ALSO PAY THE EXORBITANT SALES TAX RATES IN THE AREA!!!Yet Mayor Funky's Administration has shown nothing but
empty promises when it comes to the immigrant community. The Westside CAN center is waiting for help from the guy but so far . . . The Mayor can't even muster a statement in support of the place after and their embarrassing cries for help.
Because the Mayor took sides with the Minutemen, because so far he has done nothing to help the CAN center and
Minuteman recruiter Frances Semler is now frequently seen at the side of Mayor Funky at one public event after another . . . There's no denying that the Mayor of Kansas City is in league with the reactionary, anti-immigrant, anti-Latino forces which dominate a small, dreary burg like Hazelton, Pennsylvania and not a world class metropolis like San Francisco.
Yet, just because Funkhouser and his acolytes are anti-development, anti-immigrant, anti-minority . . . That doesn't mean all of Kansas City should surrender to the guy's effort to move Kansas City backward.
ID cards for undocumented workers are a great way to unite "OneKC" and prove that this town is inclusive of its Latino, Somali, Asian and Arab communities - All of which have significant factions of undocumented members . . . It would be a great way to throw off the racist image that this town has attained thanks to a few newspaper columnists, talk radio listeners and the Mayor's incompetent and downright insensitive administration.