TKC CONVERSATION TONIGHT!!! AMID 1968 RIOT REFLECTION: IS KANSAS CITY RACIAL STRIFE STILL RAMPANT????
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Take a look at tonight's local PC talk and some of our blog community discourse that's even more reflective of current hostilities . . .
Strife in the Streets: Kansas City Remembers 1968
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Frustrated with the slow pace of civil rights reforms and outraged at the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr., protesters in Kansas City took to the streets on April 9, 1968. The four subsequent days of civil unrest shocked many in a city known for its lack of racial violence despite deep, underlying tensions. Six people – all African-Americans – died, some 20 more were hospitalized, and arrests totaled nearly 300. A three-block area of Prospect Avenue was bombed out and burned down.
The Library, in collaboration with KCPT-Kansas City PBS and KSHB-41 Action News, examines the indelible episode and its aftermath in a two-pronged event marking its 50th anniversary. First is the premiere screening of the new documentary short '68: The Kansas City Race Riots, Then and Now, co-produced by KSHB and KCPT. Then, a panel discussion featuring Congressman Emanuel Cleaver II and former city council member and longtime community activist Alvin Brooks addresses the lessons learned from the violent chapter of history, from the role of policing to the value of protest.
Joining Cleaver and Brooks on the panel: Clarence Gibson, the last Kansas City police officer at the time of the unrest who remains on the force; Linda Spence, a Central High School student in 1968; and Southeast Missouri State University historian Joel Rhodes, who has extensively researched the episode. KCPT’s Nick Haines moderates.
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We talked about this event recently and here are two comments worth highlight . . .
Super Dave: "As a teenager I remember 1968 very well. As an adult what I see is those who were doing the rioting over MLK have completely turned their backs on what he was about and what he stood for. Hard to sell your cause when you resort to violence about every little whim you disagree with and for sure makes your cause moot when the issue that is used to destroy property and kill one another about turns out to be a lie created by those behind the cause . . . If a man is to be remembered and used as a figurehead of that which is suppose to be good then wouldn't following his ideas and preached examples of life be the road most traveled and the roads to violence the least traveled ones?"
Local Remembrance: "I remember this very ugly time, when National Guardsmen with rifles were stationed on the rooftops of the buildings on the Plaza, where I worked. Police blocked traffic from Missouri into my Kansas suburb out of fear. Whole blocks around the Prospect Corridor were in flames. I hope I never see anything like it again."
You decide . .
Just look at some of the president's tweets.
ReplyDeleteThere is just as much hate if not more now than at that time.
KCPD started the riot. Ask anyone who was teargassed in the basement of the church?
ReplyDelete7:32 you’re an idiot
ReplyDeleteIf the Muller investigation keeps going forward, I think we could see some of the same upheaval on local streets. We are living in strange times and people seem like they are much quicker to anger. That's why hope our leaders will call for more cooperation and unity after the 2018 midterm elections.
ReplyDeleteRacism is over. Everybody has equal opportunity and access.
ReplyDeleteAgree. It’s hilarious to see a racist like stupid give his “opinion” on MLK. It’s essentially as worthless as he is.
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ReplyDeleteJust look at the Presidents tweets??????
How about just look at the people calling him names and holding his severed head or calling his son retarded!!!!
How about look at the people who pepper sprayed and threw urine on anyone who wanted to attend the Presidents rally.
How about look at the people who rioted because they don't like what someone wants to speak about if it doesn't go with what they think!!!!
Racism is not over, and will only get worse. I have about enough of ignorant people who don't look at the facts.
Maybe some people should look at the money Trump gave out of his own pocket to pay for a mans cancer treatments because he couldn't pay for them!!!!
Hatred...YES, from the democrats who are full of hate and violence and from black people who assume he is a racist when they need to look to their own like Obama who made it a point to say he hated whites, Christians, and Jews, along with his wife and her anti white thesis!
^^^ Russian bot.
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We talk facts all the time here: how blacks commit most of the murders in KC and are most of the victims and how as a species they should be wiped out.
DeleteThose are facts, too. You can't dispute them.
Average IQ 75 + Low Impulse Control = Riots
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Thanks so much 9:14 , you nailed it , only other thing to add to that is - the LIBERAL Democrat worthless piece of shit media that wants to DESTROY THE United states and it's duely elected PRESIDENT , protect the deep state bullshit scumbags like Comey , Clinton , Lynch , McCabe , Obama , Brennen , Holder ? Shit is gunna hit the fan for these traitors soon ! Will be great to see those whacked out gang of shit hole liers locked up !
ReplyDeletehe needs to get some stickers out of propseros garbage first and stick one on his ass. Indigenous ass club.
ReplyDelete9:22p all you are doing is implicating the Boston Tea party
ReplyDeleteLets have 1 year where all white ppl are required to use public defenders in court.
ReplyDeleteWhy?^^^ What does that have to do with anything?
ReplyDeleteI remember this moment in KC history very clearly, it was a horrible moment and one that sparked a lot of hate. I think it took 20 years for this city to really get over. I think we are past it for the most part but I see more people trying to stir up garbage bUT not having much luck. The people who run on hate for the most fail under the weight of their own hubris, the rest just fritter away their time and waste their words on people who don't care.
ReplyDelete9:08 just STFU
ReplyDelete9:50 you are a dumb fck. 5 years MINIMUM white ppl get public defenders in court.
ReplyDelete^^^^^ × 10,000 9:37 , really appreciate your input ! TOO bad many brain dead idiot skull full of mush Liberals are so much zombie walk in lock step with the CRAP they are told to believe fro the main stream media BITCHES that still have love and delusional weirdness abounds feelings for the CROOKED Hillery , ! Really , Hillery Clinton ?
ReplyDeleteoooh, did 9:14 make sense?
ReplyDelete9:14 is as big a turd as liberals with their tongue in hialry's ass.
ReplyDeleteHow's the declined crime rate in KILLA CITY ? Seems like a safe , frosty ass Snowflake place to move into and raise a family ! I will be happy to move THERE soon , and tell ALL of my cracker buddies from Overland Park and Leewood to pack up and move to the shit hole KILLA CITY ! So many benefits of diversity and inclusion and melding of trannies and welcome to the gay and metrosexual population , we should be able to fit right in !
ReplyDeleteAs you can see Tony, racial strife in Kansas City is alive & well. You've done your job well. Congratulations, but I just can't understand why you wanted it this way.
ReplyDeleteCould it be that the conversation is about blacks & whites, & as a Mexican you can see that you are a second class citizen? So, you've decided to become a conservative & hate everyone for a living.
The blacks can see that they are second class citizens. too, & they just don't care anymore. The rules don't apply to them, so they stopped caring about the rules.
That's about the stupidest comment we've seen here in two days. TKC is the not anything close to a conservative. More like a smart ass.
DeleteAs for your "analysis" of the culture. Lame as well.
Keep trying and maybe one day you might come up with something halfway intelligent. Until then, I'm pretty sure that you're not even good enough to be taken seriously on a local booby blog.
TTFN, Love you like a sister!
StupidDave whitespaining MLK to blacks.
ReplyDeleteDon't you have any black friends, Tony that you could quote besides this racist coward?
They're still hustling this drama after all these years.
ReplyDeleteWhat a shame.
40 Years and there is still strife and very little progress.
Hyde Park Poser,
ReplyDeleteTony is pro-life, pro-gun, attends Mass every week. Don't you read his posts where he talks about Democratic Talking Points? He reposts Cashill (who never met a conspiracy theory he didn't like), he reposts Dr. Evans (who's trying to make a living with his "Ferguson Effect" false narrative, his constant displays of misogyny (a liberal wouldn't post all of those girlie picture.) He's an armchair patriot who avoids military service. Tony is a conservative & you're a moron.
I think you read this blog too much.
DeleteI've also seen TKC demand that Governor Greitens step down, make fun of Trump. Joke about rural Missouri Republicans. Call Josh Hawley Alex P. Keaton and repost stuff from Antifa and Jackson County Democrats.
It's a good community blog and you'e obviously hooked. Rather than try to be a really ineffective hater, you should just admit that you're a fan and you read this blog even more than I do.
No shame in it.
As for the hotties.
I ain't complaining about that, very few people do. I know a couple of women who read this blog and get the joke. Sorry if you're too wrapped up on your politics to have a laugh.
For decades society has tried every way in the world to make fish survive with fowl. It hasn’t worked and it never will.
ReplyDeleteBy posting racist click bait like this, Tony is adding to the level of racial strife.
ReplyDeleteIf you live in Hyde Park, then the whole point of your existence is to not understand, & avoid the real world.
^^^ How pathetic @11:53 - if you don't like the news than don't read the news. You seem like you'd be happier reading the Star and not a site that actually challenges readers.
ReplyDeleteGood luck with finding any kind of news that doesn't want clicks and readers. That's pretty much the point of any publications.
Sorry but you don't have "the right" to not be offended. But realize that the problem is YOURS and doesn't belong to anybody else.
You don't like the blog, cool. There are some days when it pisses me off as well. Think TKC is way too skeptical about the downtown streetcar which is a fun attraction for people like me and my family.
But overall, it's important that KC has people writing about our city who actually know KCMO. @11:53 only seems to understand what he doesn't like but doesn't really offer any real example of good journalism. So I'm guessing it's just a typical star reader who is upset because they're audience is fading away.
Hell, all you have to do is look here, at the comments you allow to be posted, from the racist, hating, ugly knucle draggers and their incredibly racist comments and you know the answer to the question is a resolute "YES."
ReplyDeleteIt's disgusting.
But hey, thanks for giving all that ugliness and again, hate, a platform and then hiding behind the First Amendment nonsense. Kudos.
Sorry, freedom of speech means you might have to hear some things you don't like.
DeleteSTFU, isn't it your bedtime?
ReplyDeleteTony encourages racial strife.
ReplyDeleteMO, the STFU was for the Hyde Park Poser.
I agree with what some of MO Rage says.
ReplyDeleteObviously KC has a a problem with racial issues. It is really obvious when we talk about things like the plaza or east side crime and some political subjects.
But KC is bigger than that.
There are a lot of places in KC where there are people who want to make the city better and are doing exactly that. Because of TKC i've read about places on Troost or Operation breakthrough and connecting for good.
The fact is that controversy is part of the news. I don't think we should hide from it. It's just part of life and the more we can act like adults and discuss things reasonably, the better off we all are.
I like some of what Mo Rage says but that doesn't mean I have to agree with all of it - The first amendment isn't nonsense, it protects a lot of what he writes too!
Police brutality is the cause of all riots.
ReplyDeleteYou mean lack of Police Enforcement is the cause of all riots.^^^^
ReplyDeletewhenever police murder spikes there are uprisings and people go out in the streets. Police always attack the crowds to incite the riot. There's a pathology to these events no matter where you go. These area's are like controlled burns. Look at the development on Troost where the arson occurred.
ReplyDeleteWant guns off the inner city streets? Lock it down and search it. Murder rates will go down for weeks. Put the felons in procession for 5 years like the law REQUIRES. Start over. A felon with a firearm is supposed to do 5 Years hard. Minimum. Enforce the law.
ReplyDeleteThe real problem in KC is fools like Mo Rage who censor what is seen on his site because he wants to hide the truth all the while is pushing his racist thoughts.
ReplyDeleteIf you don't 'think' like mo rage, then, of course you are a racist.
ReplyDeleteFacts can't overcome an rational, based on evidence premise, an idea that is mutually exclusive to the Liberal Narrative, even if it is based on material, irrefutable facts.
Not only will they take their mental ball and retreat into the ever diminishing space between their ears, they will, if possible, destroy you, your family and if they outnumber you, violently attack you.
Fascist 'Though Leaders' who support the Democrat Party , the Deep State and the insanity concomitant.
Condemnation for telling the truth.
In 1968 I could not figure out why they would break into my mother's business on Prospect beat her senseless and Rob her she was there helping the neighborhood by loaning money through her banking facility she would give out Home Loans business loans car loans to help people and they came back they beat her senseless they robbed her and broke down the store how am I supposed to feel about that now as an adult looking back I was 8 years old at the time
ReplyDelete^^^I don't know how you're supposed to feel dummy! Don't come on here looking for therapy. You won't find it. It's nothing but dummies, racist trash, conspiracy-theorists and the resistance on here.
ReplyDeleteReally appreciate all the comments , basically the killing in KILLA CITY is black asses killing each other off over drug turf control ! It's all about whichever gang gets control over market share of an expanding growth of supply and demand . As the consumer market grows , there is much more $$$$$ to be made and EACH OTHER gang has to do battle to control more of the cash flow to be profitable . Business 101 , dickheads
ReplyDeleteI would love to see the Prospect corridor in flames...with all the buildings FULL of screaming negroes.
ReplyDeleteHEP ME!!! HEP ME!!!
If Stupor Dave's racist, feeble rambling droppings qualify as "worth highlight," I've got something floating in my toilet that deserves a post all its own.
Tony you've totally lost it.
I wish all that stir the shitpot had to lick the spoon
ReplyDeleteSome folks just never learn from their mistakes
ReplyDeleteStupid dave is a racist moron. Thant is all.
ReplyDelete^^^ Says the white rap loving grocery sacker night supervisor.
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