A reality check . . .
ONLY A SMALL CADRE OF VERY LOUD ACTIVISTS DEMAND TROOST AVENUE NAME CHANGE . . . MOST RESIDENTS DON'T CARE TO ENDURE THE HASSLE TO SATISFY SOCIAL MEDIA POLITICAL FLEXING!!!
ALSO . . .
'TRUTH AVENUE' HAS ALREADY BEEN DONE & HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH KANSAS CITY!!!
To his credit . . . Mayor Q seems to have learned his lesson from efforts to bypass Democracy and change street names without following some kind of public approval process and a vote.
Newsflash . . . Local polling reveals very little interest in an idea that's mostly a hobby for a small juice biz near the area . . . Here's the overview:
(Mayor Quinton) Lucas wanted to wait until 2028 to permanently replace street signs that bear the last name of Benoist Troost, a Kansas City physician who enslaved Black people. District 3 Councilwoman Melissa Robinson pushed back. As a result, the proposal first brought forth by Robinson was tabled this week and now we’re back to square one.
“At this point, the mayor has become an impediment to justice,” former Board of Parks and Recreation commissioner Chris Goode told me. “To put an honorary street sign above Troost Avenue is not what the people want. The goal is to remove the name of the street.”
Read more via www.TonysKansasCity.com link . . .
KC almost stripped a slave owner's name off a street. Then Mayor Lucas got in the way | Opinion
Troost Avenue, the city's historic line of segregation and oppression, was named for a man who owned other human beings. From Toriano Porter:
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