Yet Another Kansas City Star Screed Condemns Racist J.C. Nichols

Kansas City's favorite villain resurfaces again in today's newspaper as the latest screed condemns his legacy without much context for NEW issues that impact today's readers . . . Just the same old ax grinding that doesn't really offer anything but hard feelings.

Here's the word . . .

"I have a friend who wonders why Kansas City eliminated the revered name of J.C. Nichols from a boulevard and a gorgeous fountain on the Country Club Plaza. Didn’t Nichols build lovely neighborhoods? Indeed, the much-celebrated Nichols did that. Tragically, he also wrote racial covenants into deeds that forbade sales to Black people and Jews, not just for the present but also into the limitless future. The U.S. Supreme court later revoked the “future” aspect of the covenants.

"Nichols was far from the only discriminator, but he certainly topped the list. He and others kept white neighborhoods white and elsewhere inflicted block-by-block racial turnover. They segregated the Kansas City metro area. "

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J.C. Nichols wrote racial covenants into deeds that forbade sales to Black people and Jews, not just for the present but also into the limitless future.