Kansas City Reparations Commish Named

Credit where it's due . . . At least 12th & Oak is making this move before the general election. 

Still . . . Like it or not . . .

SLAVERY REPARATIONS IS THE MOST DIVISIVE ISSUE CONFRONTING KANSAS CITY AND THREATENS TO RUIN LOCAL PROGRESS ATTRACTING NEW RESIDENTS!!!

Put simply . . . Over the past 50 years other cities have proven that high-income residents DO NOT like paying for this kind of social justice controversy. 

Don't believe TKC?? Look at Detroit and any part of D.C. outside of Georgetown . . . The controversial California exodus also proves our thesis correct.

Accordingly . . .

Here's some of the copy the mayor's office sent out tonight . . .

Mayor Quinton Lucas tapped Terri Barnes, president of the Nia Project, to chair the commission.

Building a better community for all requires our City to address past wrongs, ongoing patterns of discrimination, and tools by which we may create equal opportunity for all Kansas Citians, Lucas said. I thank the members of the Mayors Commission on Reparations for engaging in the important review and work essential in providing a template for City Council, Kansas City businesses, and our entire community for how we can support long-term equitable growth for all parts of Greater Kansas City.

Other commission members include:

Kansas City Black United Front advocate Will Bowles; Seigfreid Bingham partner Fritz Riesmeyer; Brothers Liberating Our Communities Founder Cornell Ellis; Descendent Freedman Alliance Executive Director Kenneth Ford; Communities Creating Opportunities Executive Director Danise Hartsfield; LISC Greater Kansas City Program Officer Kelli Hearn; UMKC Professor of Pediatrics Dr. Bridgette Jones; Dionne King of DMK Consults; Lincoln Prep student Madison Lyman; Greenline Initiative CEO and Co-Founder Ajia Morris; KC Defender founder Ryan Sorrell; UMKC Associate Professor of Economics Linwood Tauheed.

Kansas City Reparations Coalition members Mickey Dean and Ester Holzendorf are ex-officio members of the Mayors Commission on Reparations.
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KCMO Mayor Quinton Lucas appoints 13 members to Commission on Reparations

KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Kansas City, Missouri, Mayor Quinton Lucas announced 13 appointments Monday to the city's new Commission on Reparations. Lucas and 10 other U.S. mayors, including St. Louis Mayor Tishaura Jones, pledged to form a commission "to study and develop" proposals to pay reparations for slavery to Black residents in their cities nearly two years ago.

Developing . . .