Cali Boogie - Digital Underground

There is little "real news" in KC, it seems.

 For the past 3 months, I have paid for a subscription to the KC STAR so that I could see if there was any change for the better.  What a freaking let down.  

It appears that the only thing that the Star covers are racial.  Almost every story, editorial, and column are now entirely driven by ethnicity.  Can someone please tell me what it was that the paper covered before they were forced to become the Woke paper of record due to their racist past?  

• Today, for example, the cover story is about a coffee shop owner that fights racism by pouring caffeine down the gullets of mostly white folks, for a profit. HOW VERY BRAVE!  There are front-line workers and then there is this woman!  Soldiers returning from a tour in the sandbox don't get a mention by the Star but a business owner that happens to be the trendy minority to cover this month (she is Asian) gets a whole story!  
• The next, MU Social Justice Centers get covered.  
• Decades after Tiger Woods, the Star decides that a large Putt Putt course is worth coverage because the owner is black.  

If you go back through the archives in 2021, nearly everything is racial yet, I have yet to see the Star honestly state its own racial past beyond a bullshit apology.  Bringing in minorities from out of town to cover the city instead of promoting minorities from the city already working for the paper.  I guess if you have a shitty track record of hiring minorities then you have to scramble to ensure that you appear to have changed despite your poor hiring track record.   

The Star is now The Pitch.  

Follow by email is going away

 I received notification today that the "follow by email" feature that blogger has offered since I started doing this is going away.   Judging by the responses I get and how traffic flows to this site, I know that several of you utilize this feature.  Especially since I do not post on a daily basis.  

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Black Rob - Whoa!

Symbolism over Substance - KC Streets

I just read that for the 3rd time in almost as many years, KC is set to
name a street after Martin Luther King Jr.  This to me is almost as transparent as the white skin that has kept such a street from being named for nearly 50 years.  Doesn't every metro area in the nation already have a street named after the civil rights pioneer?  Shit, some have 2 streets, 4 schools, and a bridge but not KC.  

So what changed?  Could it be that in a city that has ignored racial issues inside its borders that they decided to right a wrong?  Fuck no.  You see, it is all in an effort to become a WOKE city.  

Sure, the schools, crime, economic conditions, and infrastructure are worst now than they have been in decades (despite investing tens of millions of dollars into these neighborhoods) but at least the street, any street it seems, will finally be renamed.  It is a token gesture made by a token government to provide them with change that will not bring about real change.

Why would they want change when they are getting wealthy off of keeping the problems?  KC leadership at all levels is a complete joke and it has been since I have been a kid.  School Board, City Council, Commissioners, Mayor, Religious leaders etc.. have all gotten wealthy off of the backs of others living in subpar conditions.  

Hell, the only real areas of progress have occurred when those idiots have kept to themselves.  The only thriving areas in the city happened despite the "leadership" and not because of.  

This street name change does have some roots.  Go back to the 1700s and see what the Native Americans gave up for some needs and mirrors.  

Ice Cube - My Summer Vacation

It is Deja Vu all over again in Mn.

 The state of Minnesota MIGHT have some of the worst trained police officers in the United States.  How many people does this make in the past 3 years?  There is
George Floyd, the guy that was shot as his girlfriend sat next to him in the car and now this guy.  

One might see that training is the problem and increase funds for training but no, the idiots in Mn are the leaders in the defund the police movement.  With even worse training slated for the future, this will not be the last.  Will defunding the police in other cities cause an increase in this for other locations?  Yes