AFTERMATH: KANSAS CITY MLK ADVISORY COMMITTEE TOUTS NEW AIRPORT CIVIL RIGHTS ICON TRIBUTE AS DEBATE FRACTURES LOCAL POLITICAL INTERESTS!!!
Our blog community previewed the decision and then broke the news yesterday on a daunting decision confronting Kansas City regarding MLK tribute.
The aftermath:
- Some local leaders call the decision "daring" and the topic has already garnered national attention.
- Kansas City Aviation Leadership seems skeptical.
- The group will present this final recommendation to Mayor James Monday afternoon.
Nevertheless . . .
LOCAL NEWSIES WILL EVENTUALLY GET AROUND TO COVERING TKC FIRST NEWS: OUR BLOG COMMUNITY FIRST NOTED THE HIGH PRICE OF "NAMING RIGHTS" FROM THE KING FAMILY THAT HAS BEEN HERETOFORE UNMENTIONED!!!
Credit where it's due, some locals think we might get a freebie or at least a discount.
A few more points to consider . . .
- The Revs are not backing down, they'll continue to push the Paseo rename issue for an August ballot decision.
- Some members of the committee STILL suggest that 63rd Street could be renamed ALONG with the new airport -- There is a real possibility that KCMO could see BOTH options move forward.
- There is NOBODY PUBLICLY ADVOCATING AGAINST some kind of KCMO MLK naming tribute. Don't let anonymous trolls bully local opinion too much because the real debate is over the specifics of the tribute. In the end, some kind of MLK honor is an inevitability and something that most locals in the mainstream think is long overdue.
Finally . . .
Credit to Mayor Sly on this issue that he has navigated expertly so far. By taking the debate outside of the sphere of neighborhood politics he has encouraged real local conversation on this issue and sparked a debate that goes beyond the group of Revs who, some say, threaten to reinforce dividing lines for their community.
Developing . . .
I bet TRUMP international airport would get more headlines!
ReplyDeleteHere's something for you to think about T.
DeleteThe airport is not a shopping mall.
It's not a museum.
It's not a restaurant.
The airport is simply a place where people land to get to their real destination. It is not a destination in and of itself. This is something that KC has lost track of and that is getting lost in all of our discussions about the future of the biggest building project in modern KCMO history.
Let’s just name everything after MLK, proving that there is no hope for this shithole city. We are done.
ReplyDeleteI think we should rename Linwood. Name Linwood east of Tristan after MLK. Name Linwood west of Troost after James Earl Ray.
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Typical of just how a Degenerate Leftist "COMMUNIST" Liberal would go about renaming anything in the city !
Never hold it to a PUBLIC VOTE !! by the Citizens ???
instead selectively chosen a "very select group", who'll help push your pathetic commie liberal agenda, under disguise !!
Also make Damn sure nobody from the MEDIA NEVER EVER Mentions that using the "MLK Name" will cost them BIG BUCKS $$$$$$$ (Tax Payers) !!
Be Damn sure to keep that Quiet in the local Kansas City liberal News Media !!!
Wouldn't want the KC Tax Payers to ever find out, that they are going to be paying "BIG MONEY $$$$$" for the use & Rights of the MLK name !!
Kind of like that Disastrous & pathetic "SHOT Tracker" the city of KCMO pays over $500,000 a year to have which doesn't really do a Damn thing,, supposed to track gun fire shots in certain areas, which evidently doesn't do a very good job from the high MURDER RATES !!
About like all that TAX Payer Money KCMO Mayor SLY JAMES & Jean Peters Baker gave to those "supposed" Anti-Crime Groups into the hundreds of thousands of dollars the last few years - which is a JOKE givin' the high Murder Rates in KCMO !!!
As usual the Clueless Naïve uneducated KCMO Idiots will turn a blind eye to all this, and the city will continue to turn into an utter pathetic Shit hole , by these Degenerate pathetic Commie' Liberal Shit Stain Democrats, and they'll be chocked full of lousy excuses as to why, everything but the Truth & Facts !!!
Welcome to "Chocolate City" - Kansas City Missouri, land of Degenerate pathetic disgusting Communist Liberals, High Crime, Murders, Rapes, Car Jackings, High Speed Car Chases, and last but NOT Least "Criminal Coddling" Judges & prosecutors and a Degenerate Dipshit liberal Mayor, named SLY JAMES, Certified Commie Scumbag !!!
ReplyDeleteenuf already with this MLK naming of everything, streets, bridges, buildings, municipal facilities, et.al...as for the future super duper aerodome....it will prove to be the biggest "clusterfuck" ever for the mucicipality sometimes known as "Kansas City", aka "CowTown"....should have left "good enuf" with the current airpark...the new and improved will consume this city for years to come...it has always been and will always be "managed", and I use that verb casually...by amatures, city goverernance "wanna be's"...
Screaming baby race card holding minority wants something and white guilt is suppose to roll over and give it them. And pay a greed King family tribute money to do it ! Bull shit.
ReplyDeleteLet’s just name the city Ni**erville.
ReplyDeleteMore "Plaques For Blacks" in the hopes that they will somehow stop being blacks if the city kisses even more black ass (If that is even possible.).
ReplyDeleteAt this point, any reasonable person must just shake their heads and wonder when the insanity will end. The ongoing pretense that "diversity" is a strength and that 80 to 90% of all of our troubles don't originate with the black race. Never. The lion's share of media blitzes us daily with the sins of 2% of Americans who actually owned slaves and those sins are a crown of thorns we are forced to accept daily in atonement to black idiots and criminals who either hate whites, or, are, after generations of entitlement have come to accept the eternal and expected guilt and cash leched from our wallets.
It's a sickening lie and so, of course, those Progressives that hate white people, will rub it in the faces of the entire city with a tribute to MLK. This tribute is most certainly NOT about a great man, but is a continuation of a great lie. We all must believe, in spite of the unambiguated evidence on a daily basis, to the contrary, that if not for "Raycisssm", a lack of "diversity", etc. etc. etc. that blacks would be curing cancer and solving that pesky cold fusion problem when not continuing their studies of the Latin First Declension.
In truth, blacks have, with very few exceptions, one skill other than sports. Whining about "racism".
What a joke and what a joke that airport will be when it is named after MLK.
One of the reverends was on tv just now and said “it will bring more business to the city” as the main reason for naming the airport. Uh huh, sure it will, he said we would be the only idiots, I mean city in the world to do so, wow, worst reason ever
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ReplyDeleteKING Family rakes in Millions $$$$$$ off useage rights of MLK Name & royalties !!
Local Liberal Commie' News Media will "NOT Report" or investigate this to the Naïve Clueless Public !!
How the KING Family makes MILLIONS of others using his Name MLK
Investigative LINK : http://articles.latimes.com/2009/apr/22/opinion/oe-turley22
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The "King family" has long been criticized for "insisting on payment for the use of their father's name", image, speeches and virtually "anything" that they can claim for themselves or their foundation.
The family reached a new low this week when it was revealed that they had been paid more than $800,000 by the Martin Luther King Jr. National Memorial Project Foundation for the use of King's image and words on the planned King memorial on Washington's Mall.
For many years, the family has insisted that although King may have been called the nation's prophet, he is their property. Of course, it is the profits, and not the prophet himself, that has led them regularly to court to fight over royalties and control.
The surviving children of King have been feuding in court since July, when daughter Bernice and son Martin Luther King III filed a lawsuit against their brother, Dexter, chief executive of the family corporation, King Inc., accusing him of misusing funds. He countersued, saying they had obstructed the goals of the King Center.
The siblings' most recent battle involved a $1.4-million book deal with New York publisher Penguin Group for a ghostwritten memoir of Coretta Scott King. Dexter King went to court to compel his siblings to turn over photographs and personal papers for the project. The siblings resisted, saying that their mother had decided before her death that she no longer wanted author Barbara Reynolds to do the book
*** In the latest "monumental shakedown", "the King family"'s Intellectual Properties Management Inc. was paid $761,160 by the nonprofit foundation raising money for the Washington memorial. This was on top of a "management" fee of $71,700 paid in 2003.
The Kings have defended the payments by noting that donations to the foundation have been down because people were giving to the monument fund instead.
Unfortunately anything named after MLK is now associated with crime and blight. Naming an airport after him would associate the entire city with crime and blight. Perhaps not unfair in the case of KCMO but not something any city wants.
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ReplyDeleteHOW & WHY the MLK KING Name will cost Tax Payers $$$$$$ millions
MLK Memorial Foundation "Forced To Change Name" By King Children !
And on October 16, 2011, the idea to build a monument in honor of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., an idea that began 28 years earlier at the kitchen table of a member of his fraternity, Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc., came to fruition.
and THEN this Happened ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,
Less than two years later, however, the organizing force behind the national monument – the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Foundation – is "NO MORE", after the surviving children of Martin and Coretta Scott King "refused to grant a license" for the group to continue to use the name “Martin Luther King Jr.”
*** All of this "despite the foundation" Paying "MLK children" through King, Inc., "$2.7 million" to use the likeness of King and his quotes on the memorial on the National Mall.
"Civil rights historians" who have studied King and his family say the "move follows a familiar pattern", one in which King’s children tightly control his image – and use a "heavy hand to protect it".
“As we’ve seen for over 15 years now, the "behavior of the family’s financial representatives" continue to do "active harm" to Dr. King’s legacy,” said Garrow, a University of Pittsburgh law professor !!
King’s legacy has a "reduced visibility" and less substantive visibility "because of the family’s demands",” said Garrow, noting that the family’s estate has "raked in millions" through the years by managing their father’s “brand” — "something King himself would have adamantly rejected" !!!!
Investigative LINK : http://rolandmartinreports.com/blog/2013/03/mlk-memorial-foundation-forced-to-change-name-by-king-children/
ReplyDeleteCBS NEWS 60 Minutes INVESTIGATES using the MLK Name !!!
Controversy Over Use Of King Name
Prominent members of the "Black community", including the chairman of the "NAACP", are "criticizing the family of Dr. Martin Luther King" Jr. for selling the image and words of the civil rights martyr for "profit" $$$$$$$$$
The King family also "charges media organizations" and scholars who want to use "Dr. King's words or image for publication or broadcast" !!
The family has sued organizations, including CBS News and USA Today, for using King's words "without paying a licensing fee". Both cases were settled out of court.
"I think Martin Luther King must be "spinning in his grave"," says Bill Rutherford, who was executive director of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference when King was murdered. "He gave his life for his ideas of justice, peace and love. He attempted his entire life to "communicate ideas for free". To communicate, not to sell," he says.
Investigative LINK : https://www.cbsnews.com/news/controversy-over-use-of-king-name/
ReplyDeleteGood point that anything named after MLK is associated with crime and blight. That's what Mayor James and the city officials have done to K.C. our city is going down pretty fast. Again this has nothing to do with MLK, it's a black power movement and will only result in more racial divide, because of the fact that it is being done years to late and MLK was never here. They are using MLK's name for selfish and racist reasons and that's pretty sad.
The fat fake reverends don’t care how much this will cost the city. They don’t pay taxes, white people do.
ReplyDeleteOh no! MLK triggers me! Butt-hurt sore loser repubturds melting down!!! Hurry trash, get to your safe spaces!!!!
ReplyDeleteNot fair, there are some very good reasons to avoid this naming debate, they are not all racist. We should remind everyone that there is nothing stopping supporters of an MLK honor to buy a building and do the project with their own money. The taxpayers of KC don't have to support everything.
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ReplyDeleteOOOOOOOOH I HATE LIVING HERE SO MUCH BUT AM APPARENTLY UNABLE TO FATHOM LIVING ANYWHERE ELSE ALL I CAN DO IS COMPLAIN AND WHINE AND NOT BOTHER MAKING MY LIFE BETTER!!! OOOOOOOOH!!!!
If it was such a great idea why would we be the first to do so and why didn’t they rename the airport where he grew up or lived?
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ReplyDeleteOther ideas for naming the KCI Airport, that doesn't have to do with RACE !!!!
1 : Howard Huges
2 : Karen Silk Wood
3: Juan Tripp
4: Henry Ford
5: Thomas Edison
6: Wright Brothers
7: Constellation
Evidently the "Democratic Liberals" clearly only are concerned with everything about "RACE" !!!
They know very little about Innovation , inventions , ideas, industrial age, etc.
All they evidently know is about RACE, violence, hate and anything that's pathetic and Destructive and disruptive !
and if you don't play along with their twisted mentality, than they love to call you a Racist and or a BIGOT,,,
Some Legacy their going to leave behind for history !!!
Oh no! The diaper patrol is really filling em' up this morning!
ReplyDeleteWASHINGTON — The family of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. has charged the foundation building a monument to the civil rights leader on the National Mall about $800,000 for the use of his words and image — an arrangement one leading scholar says King would have found offensive
ReplyDeleteThis is a BAD, BAD, BAD, BAD idea.
ReplyDelete^^Says the nobody posting on a third-rate blog at 9:15. Thanks for your worthless opinion. Nobody asked for.
ReplyDeleteIf you want to put a name on the airport you name it for Truman. Paseo should stay Paseo 63rd St. or 39th St would be my preference.
ReplyDeleteQuick question:
ReplyDeleteBlack folks in favor of renaming the Paseo: why would you want to choose a street that fits the stereotype of "MLK Blvd is dangerous" (for whites, blacks, hispanics, asians, etc.)?
Quick question for white folks:
ReplyDeleteWhy do any of you care? How does it affect your life? You're going to be dead soon.
Renaming Linwood would be a bad idea because the streetcar will not stop there.
ReplyDeleteIt just got moved to 31st St!
(They moved the Linwood stop there, because that's where the crosstown bus stop is, the one poor folks PAY to ride. But then kept the useless stop at 27th, between Union Stn. and 31st--so rich folks at Crown Center/Santa Fe Place and the law firm there, can catch the streetcar without walking up the steep hill.)
I do think an east/west street is best. the airport would be OK but only without paying naming rights, which ain't gonna happen. A few exhibits on the walls would be fine for people stuck during layovers or delayed flights. But nobody GOES to an airport because of the name. So the fool who claimed we would have more visitors is delusional.
Sorry Tracy you're the fool that thinks we care what you have to say about our business .
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Tracy makes a great point:
ReplyDeleteThe Linwood streetcar stop (especially if they name it MLK) would have made sense to keep--so people could go to Costco, and then just walk 2 blocks to the stop.
And ride north or south for free.
Screw the rich at 27th St!! The committee also claimed it was to serve the Federal Reserve Bank! LOL. Who goes there? No one. Unless you are one of 25 million tourists, and instead of going to a Royals game, you get off on buying a bag of shredded outdated currency.
10:38--
ReplyDeleteDo you ever share INFO or FACTS? Or just troll me?
Stay on topic, coward--contribute to the collective dialogue of pertinent facts. Nobody cares if YOU care about what anyone else adds.
Now go back to your cubicle, Craig, and toggle that Royals bobblehead on your little particle board white trash desk.
If you don't have something useful to say, maybe work for your boss.
This blog is working to make a difference and steer the ship of state. All useful hands on deck.
Do you troll the Chamber execs who live in Ks? Of course not. Nor will you sign your work, little weenie big butt.
It's me aka Walter Brennan . You may be a big fish on Jocopost . You're just a little turd from a big butt here on TKC. Stay on your 2 bit blog
DeleteOne more thing have a good day old woman.
DeleteSo...how much will this cost per year in licensing? We could name it Truman for nothing.
ReplyDeleteThe City needs to tell the Baptist Ministers who are flexing their political muscle to get out of City policy. Naming the Airport after MLK is nuts. Naming a street after MLK is a fine way to respect the man and his leadership.
ReplyDeleteUntil the geriatrics who comment on this topic understand what trolling means, Tony will always have a guaranteed click-bait column to run out that gets the lowest common denominator's blood boiling.
ReplyDeleteYeah! Break the news that black people are horrible!!! Put that on blast!!! You tell 'em T!!!
ReplyDeleteI guess a compromise might work.
ReplyDeleteName it Brandon Howell International.
Every time there is another black on white hate crime, put the killer's picture up on the wall.
Blacks won't bitch about that.
The squeaky wheel racist blacks will destroy the property values of anything near MLK anything. They must be getting kick backs from the King foundation. KC is on the edge of the open plains not any region remotely associated with MLK, just a real selfish stupid idea. Move South East if you want to honor him, he has no relivence to this area of the country. He is a southern gold hero his family a bunch of greed do nothings.
ReplyDelete^^Yeah, the Civil Rights movement never came to KCMO.
ReplyDeleteEven the southern states aren't as racist as MO & KS.
Nothing good will happen in America until the Baby Boomers die off.
The complaining white geriatrics have destroyed the property value of their neighborhoods. Their outdated homes sit in a perpetual state of decline and neglect. Their broke-ass ways assure that they no longer can afford the upkeep and required maintenance to arrest the decay that matches their closed minds. The smell of fetid diapers wafts through every neighborhood these cretins inhabit. They are a menace to every neighborhood.
ReplyDelete12:43 you mean the young right! Because they don’t compare and never will to the greatest generation, you guys are known as the most worthless generation ever!
ReplyDeleteAlmost forgot about generation tide pod too!
God you guys suck!
12:43 you young whipper snappers have done nothing to improve society or humanity and until you do you got nothing to say about anything or anybody. Just tellin it like it is
ReplyDeleteWhy don’t we rename the freedom fountain on brush creek mlk freedom fountain? Simple as that, or is it too easy for sLIE to wrap his pea brain around?
ReplyDeletePaying licencing fees to honor someone just doesn't sound right. I do not think MLK himself would go along with his greedy family on this payolla deal.
ReplyDeleteLike the rest of the civilized world, we should ignore anything outta the mouths of anyone older than 60. They are good for laughs and really nothing else.
ReplyDeleteThis is just the icing on the ow manure cake that this airport fiasco has been fro the very beginning.
ReplyDeleteAmateur efforts at even approaching the airport terminal idea, secret meetings making commitments for no-bid billion dollar contracts, jerking around trying to get an actual construction deal, infighting and intimidation about minority contracts...
and now watching Sly and the council being pushed around by a bunch of east side revs who regularly ignore the interests of their community, including the horrific murder rate on the east side.
It doesn't get much more pitiful than this and, instead of any empty and even ridiculous claim that renaming the airport for MLK will "attract more business to KC, the city has made itself the laughing stock of the whole country.
World Class.
Third World!
1:28 that’s what us old timers do to young people, ignore their stupidity
ReplyDeleteI find it funny that only kcmo would try to be the first city to name an airport after mlk, if it was such a good idea someone would have done it already
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Koonville
Look at what the City/County is working on:
ReplyDelete1. Street Car with a voting district which is gerrymandered so that a select few will pay for this.
2. MLK naming rights of airport? You are kidding me...
3. Tripling the water rates due to an EPC mandate which found only a single sewer system for both waste AND runoff.
4. A 21 person commission which oversees the failing JAZZ Museum.
5. A jail which, guess what has had a significant deferral of maintenance for the building.
6. Northland and West side neighborhoods continue to be ignored as a lion share of the City money goes to the east side where the representatives in the Council have loader voices.
The system is truly broken.
Would you prefer the Sly James International Airport?
ReplyDeleteDon't be surprised when this is put forth as a compromise.
I need a committee to figure why my water bill is so damn high! Are we already paying royalties to the MLK family?
ReplyDelete4:09, the real compromise would be to name the airport Sly King, which I definitely like.
ReplyDeleteWhat's a loader voice? A voice that sounds like a front-end loader?
ReplyDeleteYou should show how stupid you really are & name it after Donald Trump.
ReplyDeleteMartin Luther King Airport......now that's some funny shit.
ReplyDeleteWe'll nickname it "King Of All Airports" and even though it will just be your average, run of the mill, overpriced, so-called "state of the art" airport, everyone will believe that it is truly the best airport in the world, just like the claim that we get 25M tourists per year in KC, that $1300 per month for a studio apartment is "affordable" or that 3 billion people came out to support the Royals after they won the World Series. Should be a pretty good deal for us. It's a real bonus that the late civil rights leader's name can be used in such a dishonest marketing scheme.
ReplyDeleteBut if we name the airport after MLK, what will we name after Sly James? Maybe the smelly elevator at Berkley Riverfront Park where the hobos have sex. The Sly James Copulatervator. Fuck it. I'm going to start calling it that whether y'all make it official or not.
Donald Trump International Airport......... I like it! he’s already done more for the country then mlk ever did, All mlk ever did was have a dream! Lmao!
ReplyDeleteUnrealized dream
ReplyDeleteListened to coverage of this story on 3 television news broadcast and one radio talk show. None mention the licensing fee that would be paid yearly to the greedy King family. Funny, makes you wonder doesn't it ?
ReplyDeleteThe Sly James Copulatervator
ReplyDeleteNow that is funny Bryan.
ReplyDeleteIts Official as of 6pm Monday nite
The Airport is Officially going to be called "The Jigaboo' Landing"
Cost to put up a Sign, according to KCMO City officials
$725 Million Dollars for 18 stick on letters, from Signs are Us
Quiet don't tell the TAX Payers, about the Extra Money they'll be secretly pocketing under the table,,,,,
they'll never know anyway,, their too stupid & ignorant anyway, too busy with the "silly Sports games", and at the Bars,
Amazing the SHIT we communist liberals can get by with,,,,
The fact that a certain contingent in this city is so extremely desperate to name something, anything, after Rev. King that they want to mess with the airport should make most reasonable people very wary. Why are we considering renaming KCI at all? Can we please just move the heck on and drop the search for something to name MLK?
ReplyDeleteWhy won't you assholes just admit that you are racist?
ReplyDeleteI don't understand this need for denial.
You won't name anything after Dr. King, because you are racist assholes, & he was black.