TKC Told You So: Kansas City East Side Claims World Cup Racism

Disparity that our blog community predicted earlier in this year now takes hold of the newspaper: 

This June, hundreds of thousands of World Cup visitors are expected to pass through Kansas City. They’ll land at a brand-new $1.5 billion airport terminal, hop on the free KC Streetcar to a gleaming Berkley Riverfront — luxury apartments, restaurants and parks lining the Missouri River. They’ll see a city that looks like it has its act together. 

What they won’t see is Troost Avenue. 

For decades, Troost has divided Kansas City along racial and economic lines — wealthier, mostly white neighborhoods to the west, historically Black and underinvested neighborhoods to the east. The Berkley Riverfront, the new airport, the streetcar: All of it sits west of Troost. None of it is an accident . . .

Read more via www.TonysKansasCity.com link . . .

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