TKC Fun Fact: Most Kansas City Council Candidates REFUSE Reparations Questions

A sense of place to start the month . . .

KANSAS CITY BLACK HISTORY MONTH 2023 DEMANDS REPARATIONS WITHOUT PUBLIC DISCUSSION OR A VOTE!!!

Per ushe our blog community noted FIRST and long before anybody else . . .

Mayor & Council pushed the reparations commish through without voter consent and now city hall spends taxpayer time & money kicking the topic around. 

A passage liberated from behind a local blog paywall on the sordid topic of entitlement and coin . . .

A major focus will likely be the harm inflicted by redlining, the systematic discrimination of Black people in housing and homeownership. Kansas City developer J.C. Nichols put the practice into play both in Kansas City and on a federal level in the 1930s, excluding countless Black families from white neighborhoods.

“Our struggle for repair and justice has always been met with violence from this country, and we have never gone back to reconcile and repair Black life from the ravages of slavery, and not only slavery, but also racial discrimination that has blocked Black access from the basic blessings of American life,” Rev. Vernon Howard said.

That sounds cool . . .

However, voters have heard that organizers want "to have difficult conversations" about the topic but, from what we've seen so far the exact opposite is true. 

Even worse . . .

TOP RANKING AND EXCLUSIVE TKC RESEARCH SHOWS US THAT MOST COUNCIL CANDIDATES FOR THE UPCOMING ELECTION ARE UNWILLING TO GO ON RECORD WHEN IT COMES TO VOTING OR THEIR STANCE ON KCMO PAYING REPARATIONS!!!

This is a smart strategy given that the current Mayor & council has kept this topic as far away from public discussion and the electorate as possible . . . Whilst still demanding cash from an increasingly diverse community that is no longer completely defined by the increasingly distant U.S. government atrocities of the past.

Developing . . .