A sneak peek and, more importantly, a tacit admission of what we've been saying for quite some time . . .
HOW WILL KANSAS CITY LEADERS NAVIGATE POLITICS IN THE POST-CIVIL-RIGHTS ERA?!?
Check the premise and then the promo clip that might not have made it to your algorithm and presents a challenge for KC politics moving forward . . .
"The Voting Rights Act built Kansas City’s Black political power. Now the Supreme Court has gutted the law that made it possible — and the fallout is already reshaping this year’s midterms.
"Troost Avenue was Kansas City’s color line for decades: a hard boundary between a white west side and a Black east side. The Voting Rights Act is why Black Kansas Citians east of Troost ever elected one of their own, including Emanuel Cleaver, the city’s first Black mayor and now its congressman.
"In April, the Supreme Court’s ruling in Louisiana v. Callais gutted Section 2 — “all but a dead letter,” Justice Kagan warned in her dissent. States have already redrawn maps ahead of November, leaving voters uncertain not just who represents them, but who’s still accountable to them at all.
"We asked Cleaver and others who lived this history the question we keep coming back to: the law that built this is being dismantled, right as new maps scramble who represents whom. What comes next?"
Take a look via www.TonysKansasCity.com embed . . .
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