I said this elsewhere, but The Paseo is kind of an identity around here. People identified with it and didn’t want it erased...

I live in KC. The Paseo has a lot of connotations around here tied up with race, white flight, and culture. I don’t want to speak for anyone, but it seems like a lot of people really identified with the street/area. Anyone living in the city knows the Paseo and associates it with race at this point. This isn’t an…

Those bitches never been down Paseo, unless it was in a limo out slumming or making a tourist stop at Gates.

It’s an exceptionally pretty road, cut through the landscape nicely. I’m still sad they tore down the old Paseo High School. The boulevard is sadly underdeveloped and that’s unlikely to change.

That’s your horrifying story? Seriously, that’s it?

Oh, so you’ve been to KC.

city council changed it last year, everyone across all demographics thought it was incredibly stupid to change The Paseo as opposed to like JC NIchols parkway that is named after a super racist developer

As a KC resident, it certainly feels like most people want an MLK Boulevard in the city... just not shoehorned into the easily-referenced and well-known Paseo Blvd. When the name was changed in the first place it felt a lot like “hey here’s a road that runs through the black part of town, I bet we could slap MLK on…