The best hill for sledding in Kansas City proper has been known for GENERATIONS as "Suicide Hill" in Brookside.
Sometime between the #MeToo movement, the pandemic & BLM riots . . . The moniker was disallowed by the local MSM.
Here's documentation of the movement to rename back in 2019 . . .
"Why A Kansas City Woman Wants To Find A New Nickname For Suicide Hill"
To be fair . . . A slew of other parents also discouraged the nomenclature.
Either way . . . The name game created a greater disconnect between youngsters and the cruel history of Kansas City.
And now . . . The "sledding hill" reports are just a little less fun because they don't offer our cowtown a bittersweet hint that laughing through snow days is a fleeting pleasure of our limited lifetimes.
Or . . .
Maybe "slice of life" MSM news reports are just a thing of the past and social media works better for this kind of thing . . .
Here's this year's update . . .
"With the weekend blizzard emptying roads across the area, often the only people out were those trying to get to a sledding hill."
Read more via www.TonysKansasCity.com link . . .
Kansas City sledders a match for Sunday blizzard
When the blizzard blew through this weekend, often the only people on the road were those trying to get to a hill for sledding.
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