Diversity Built Kansas City

Today we appreciate a glimpse of Kansas City seen through a progressive lens and offering an alternative perspective on the working-class founders of this cowtown. Checkit:

How Multi-Ethnic Stockyard Workers Propelled Kansas City Into The Modern Age

Inasmuch as Detroit relied on automobiles, or Pittsburgh on steel, Kansas City once relied on a meatpacking industry that, in turn, depended on a multi-ethnic, low-wage, but organized labor force. So says social historian John Herron, associate director of the UMKC Honors College.

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  1. Give it a rest already Mr. Herron.

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  2. This was a long time ago when black men actually married black women and supported a family.

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  3. Where are the Irishman that built everything?

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  4. Diversity built Kansas City that's why they discarded any history like the Paseo. Diversity meaning blacks only.

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  5. FAMILIES built Kansas City. They were families of every color but the family unit was key in the progress of our city and it's current demise.

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  6. I don't know how many blacks built Kansas City but they sure as fuck are destroying it.

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  7. Nobody expects you to know anything

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  8. ^^^^^^Appears to know more than you

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  9. Byron Funkhouser4/29/19, 7:58 AM

    12:21 There is no white genocide. Children are the future, so if you won't have children then you have no future.

    Diversity means not living a little cocoon of only fellow WASP's.

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  10. Not Byron Funkhouser4/29/19, 1:10 PM

    @7:58 Ethno-masochism is a form of self-hatred. Self-hatred is a form of mental illness. Multiculturalism is ideological syphilis.

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